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24’s Howard Gordon on Good Day NY

Here’s an interview I recorded this morning on FOX 5’s Good Day New York. It’s almost entirely about his novel Gideon’s War, but he gets asked about the 24 movie at the very end (final 20 seconds) to which he replies it’s not happening right away but is still happening.

Kiefer Sutherland and Greg Ellis in The Confession promo pic

Greg Ellis and Kiefer Sutherland in The Confession promo pic

Here’s something cool: Greg Ellis (24 Season 3 villain Michael Amador) will appear in Kiefer Sutherland’s new web series The Confession, premiering in March on Hulu. Here’s a promo still of them together (Kiefer plays a hit man). The Confession was written and directed by Brad Mirman, who Kiefer collaborated with before on the film…

Howard Gordon Glenn Beck Interview

Glenn Beck interviews Howard Gordon

This is actually a pretty candid interview where Howard Gordon gets grilled about the “political correctness” of the 24 in recent years with the numerous “Go Green” PSA’s in Season 7 (which he says was a Rupert Murdoch mandate) and the Season 4 pro-Muslim PSA’s with Kiefer Sutherland. Skip to 4:55 if you want to…

Howard Gordon and Gregory Itzin at Gideon's War book signing event in LA

’24’ cast at Gideon’s War book signing – photos

A bunch of former 24 castmates and colleagues came out to support Howard Gordon yesterday at the book signing for his debut novel Gideon’s War (in stores now, read our review). Actors Dennis Haysbert (David Palmer), Carlos Bernard (Tony Almeida), Gregory Itzin (Charles Logan), Peter Weller (Christopher Henderson), Chris Diamantopoulos (Rob Weiss) and former 24…

The Kennedy's miniseries poster

Jon Cassar comments on The Kennedys cancellation

The Canadian director of The Kennedys says he made changes to the miniseries whenever the History Channel asked him to and was stunned by its recent decision not to air the shot-in-Toronto project. “We were very surprised,” Jon Cassar said Tuesday night at a Fox network press event for TV critics. “The actual product takes…

Kiefer Sutherland in The Confession

Kiefer Sutherland plays hitman in “The Confession” web series

Kiefer Sutherland, internet star? That’s the plan: EW has learned exclusively that Sutherland will follow up his critically-beloved run on 24 with a web series that’ll bow on Hulu this March. Dubbed The Confession, the 10 five-to-seven-minute webisodes will feature Sutherland as a hitman who has a theological discussion with a priest (John Hurt of…

Gideon's War by Howard Gordon review

Review: Gideon’s War, a novel from 24’s Howard Gordon

Normally 24 fans have a new season of the show to enjoy in January – unfortunately that’s not the case this year. But Howard Gordon, longtime executive producer and showrunner of 24, is hoping to fill that void with his novel debut Gideon’s War (previously known as “The Obelisk”). Gideon’s War tells the story of…

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Howard Gordon on Gideon’s War, 24, and Dennis Haysbert

Howard Gordon is interviewed by Jamie Samuelsen of Mornings on 94.7 WCSX about his novel Gideon’s War. He also speaks about 24 and says the network petitioned them to change the heavily serialized real-time format during the first year of the show. He talks about the low point being 24 Season 6 and says his…

Mary Lynn Rajskub on Lopez Tonight interview

Mary Lynn Rajskub made her first appearance on the Lopez Tonight late night show. She talks a bit about the intensity of working on 24, her guest spot role on tomorrows Modern Family, being a parent, and more. At the end the entire audience got free 24 Season 8 DVD’s. YouTube Link: Mary Lynn Rajskub…

Howard Gordon at 24's 150th episode party

Howard Gordon: 24 movie script was “essentially shelved”

His main character hates guns, searches for peaceful solutions and comes across as a genuine ambassador of good. A little different from Jack Bauer, right? “A little different, yes,” says Howard Gordon, the executive producer who turned “24” into a ratings juggernaut and helped make Jack Bauer a household name. But Gordon, a Long Island…

Howard Gordon at FOX Winter TCA 2010

Howard Gordon on Gideon’s War and his favorite ’24’ episode

Here’s a lengthy (24 minute) live radio interview I recorded where TV Confidential interviews Howard Gordon, showrunner of 24 and the author of Gideon’s War. Comparisons of the Gideon Davis and Jack Bauer characters come up, Howard shares his writing past, reveals what other writers and stories he was inspired by, they talk about Gregory…

Site Redesign and plans for 2011

As you may have noticed, the site was just redesigned today. I wanted to modernize things a little, but still keep the site clean, simple, and fast-loading. There’s a logo (finally), larger fonts for easier reading, a new navigation menu at the top, and a featured post area on the homepage among other tweaks. Something…

Jon Cassar The Kennedys

History Channel cancels ‘The Kennedys’ from 24’s Joel Surnow & Jon Cassar

THR reports that History Channel has scrapped plans to air the controversial The Kennedy‘s miniseries which was written by 24 co-creator Joel Surnow, writer Stephen Kronish, and directed by Jon Cassar. The miniseries was already completed and was History’s most expensive project to date with many well-known stars like Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper,…