EXCLUSIVE: 24 vet Mary Lynn Rajskub has landed a guest appearance on Fox’s freshman comedy Raising Hope. The actress/comedian will play the never-before-seen wife of Cousin Mike (Skyler Stone). The twist? Rajskub’s character has three other husbands. The episode is scheduled to air in February.
Here’s the final remaining segment from the “Eight Days” special feature found on the 24 Complete Series box set, this one called Memories and Moments. The producers of 24 share their favorite scenes of the series and tell stories about working on the show – collaborating with the military, the shows popularity in the White…
Here’s the special feature “Presidents, Friends and Villains” found on the 24 Complete Series bonus disc, the second segment of the “Eight Days” feature. This feature runs just under 5 minutes and shows a lot of the big 24 characters and their defining moments. Make sure to check out my 24 Season 8 DVD/Blu-Ray and…
As requested, here’s the special feature “Goodbye” found on the 24 Complete Series box set bonus disc. This eight-minute video shows you the final scene filmed on 24 between Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub along with some emotional cast and crew interviews. Check out my 24 Complete Series review for my thoughts on the…
24‘s Howard Gordon will be at the Bryant Library in Roslyn, NY (2 Paper Mill Road, Roslyn, NY 11576) on Wednesday, January 12th at an event for his thriller novel Gideon’s War. The event will start at 6:15 with a screening of Howard’s favorite episode of 24 (not sure what it’ll be yet), followed by…
Update: Listen to a twenty minute audio excerpt of Carlos Bernard narrating Gideon’s War here. Someone that 24 fans know and love, Carlos Bernard (24‘s Tony Almeida) will be narrating Gideon’s War, an upcoming novel from showrunner Howard Gordon. I have asked for an excerpt of the audiobook release and that’ll be coming out soon…
The picture quality is excellent on both the Blu-Ray and DVD and presentation is really nice as usual, with fancy animated menus playing brief scenes from the episodes on that disc. Unfortunately if you’re a first time viewer these fancy menu backgrounds may spoil certain key moments (such as Kayla’s kidnapping) for you before you…
Rather unfortunate news about the 24 movie from Howard Gordon. In an interview with Assignment X he reveals that Billy Ray’s script for the 24 movie was turned down by the studio with the reason being that it “wasn’t strong enough or compelling enough” for the studio to move forward with it. Gordon also mentions…
There was a question mark hanging over Season 8 for a long time, as to whether it would be the last year of the show. When the decision was made, do you feel you were given sufficient warning to make your peace with it? Yes and no. We all kind of knew, we all felt…
Here’s the full “Chloe’s Arrest” epilogue found on the 24 Season 8 Blu-Ray and the Complete Series bonus disc (not the standalone DVD release unfortunately). It was written by Howard Gordon, directed by Michael Klick, and features Mary Lynn Rajskub and Carlo Rota as Chloe and Morris O’Brian. Runs about three minutes long. Check out…
The Ultimate CTU is a special feature found on disk 6 of the 24 Season 8 DVD. Production designer Carlos Barbosa, art director Carlos Osorio, construction coordinator Philip Stone, Olivier Benamou who creates the computer graphics, and showrunner Howard Gordon describe the new CTU New York.
Virtually New York special feature found on disk 6 of the 24 Season 8 DVD. Director Brad Turner, showrunner Howard Gordon, Director of Photography Rodney Charters, producer Paul Gadd, and visual effects supervisors Sam Nicholson, Eddie Bonin, James Riley, digital compositing supervisor Chris Martin, and CGI supervisor Al Lopez describe how they faked New York…
24 just ended this year and FOX seems to be wasting no time in creating a “spiritual successor” to the show. The potential series called “Exit Strategy” would focus on a team of five CIA experts who are deployed when an operation goes bad to extract those in danger before it’s too late. Ethan Hawke…
On Sunday (Dec. 12), a large group of friends, family and colleagues gathered at the Darryl Zanuck Theater on the 20th Century Fox studio lot in Los Angeles, Calif., to pay tribute to casting director Peggy Kennedy, who died on Friday, Dec. 3, at the age of 65 (a number which, during her life, appeared…
The people have spoken: 24 is the best series finale as voted on by TV.com readers, beating out both Lost and Heroes, two other long-running dramas. Back when I first posted about this last month it was winning with nearly half of the votes. A well-deserved win – great ending to a fantastic series. Long…