24 Season 7

[kcxiv]

Found out some information. May as well start a thread now.


'24' to get female president - CNN.com

BEVERLY HILLS, California (AP) -- The United States will have a female president next year -- on the Fox TV series "24."
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Cherry Jones will play the president in the next season of "24."

Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor when the show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) returns in January for its seventh season, the network announced Sunday.

Jones' term will coincide with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, but Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said fiction and real-world politics will not intersect.

"It's a dramatic decision. ... The president is a very important piece of '24,' " Liguori told The Associated Press. "We've had a broad array of presidents on the show; why not a female president?"

The series has been an Oval Office groundbreaker before, with Dennis Haysbert playing President Palmer, the nation's first black president.

Asked whether Fox would scrutinize scripts for potential election-year political content, Liguori said that, as with any show, "24" will be looked at "from a dramaturgical perspective, not a political perspective."

Series co-creators Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran and fellow executive producer Howard Gordon have always kept real-life politics from the show, he said.

" '24' took place in an election year in the past," Liguori said. "How you see Joel, Bob and Howard articulate drama is telling on how they deal with politics. The two are separated."

In a February article in The New Yorker magazine, Surnow described himself as a rare conservative in Hollywood. But show producers say they hold a variety of political viewpoints and deny "24" takes a solely conservative approach, the magazine reported.

Jones, winner of best-actress Tony Awards for "The Heiress" and "Doubt," has appeared in films including "Ocean's Twelve" and "The Perfect Storm" and has guest-starred on TV shows including the White House drama "The West Wing."

Liguori and newly appointed Fox programming chief Kevin Reilly appeared Sunday at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association to discuss the upcoming TV season on Fox, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

Liguori said he wouldn't call the past season "disappointing," when asked about the fact that "24" failed to gain a best drama series Emmy nomination last week after winning the award in 2006.

He said he admires the "creative courage" of the producers as the show "re-sets the table each season" with a new story. "It's fun to see them spit-ball ideas," Liguori added.

[Thorpe]

Some more information. It's nice to see them moving away from L.A..

Details On Next Year's "24" (July 25th 2007)

[kcxiv]

Hopefully they can get back to kicking ass. Season 6 was a huge letdown. It had a few good episodes, but over all, it was just bleh.

I liked that idea of a 12 hour jump a well. That was certainly a little bit different.

P.S i wanna see Elisha at least in 1 episode, just for hawtness.

[feezy]

The highlight of season 6 was

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Milo taking one to the face.

[Havelock]

Given Justice Scalia's comments about the show, I wonder if they'll get him a cameo if they shoot in DC.

[Thorpe]

First cast photo from season seven, spoiler tagged because it's so large.

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[Astrocreep]

You probably didnt need to spoiler that photo since its a promotional pic and not a spoiler screencap.

[kcxiv]

Nice to see Tony back.

[Camerous]

Originally Posted by Astrocreep

You probably didnt need to spoiler that photo since its a promotional pic and not a spoiler screencap.

Originally Posted by Thorpe

spoiler tagged because it's so large.

Maybe that will help.

[McCheese]

Originally Posted by kcxiv

Nice to see Tony back.

How is he back? Wasn't he pretty much confirmed dead a season or two ago?

I haven't seriously watched 24 in the past few seasons so can someone fill me in on what's up with Tony?

[mek]

Apparently he didn't die die.

[kcxiv]

They didnt really show him die. They just showed him getting injected with something. I dont think he was every confirmed dead.

[Thorpe]

Originally Posted by McCheese

How is he back? Wasn't he pretty much confirmed dead a season or two ago?

I haven't seriously watched 24 in the past few seasons so can someone fill me in on what's up with Tony?

Used spoilers in-case someone hasn't seen the previously season and still plans to watch it.

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From what I remember, Tony has a vile of some kind of liquid that is supposedly strong enough to kill a man. He is going to inject into to the man that killed his wife and almost killed him, but at the last second the man wakes up, grabs the vile from Tony, and injects Tony with it. Moments later Jack comes rushing into the room to find Tony on the floor. You assume Tony is dead but after that scene you never see the body. I guess they could claim that Tony was wrong and had the wrong amount or wrong type of liquid and that's why he isn't dead. However, I wouldn't buy it because Tony is the fucking man and wouldn't fuck up like that.

[Lost Ranger]

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Tony is without a doubt a badass. I am so happy he is back, even if it is a bit of a reach I really couldn't care less. You never saw him die and he never received a silent count down like Edgar so you can assume they planned this all along heh.

[Astrocreep]

IMO this show lost a chunk of its charm when they killed off Edgar and the black dude. killing the black dude was so fucking stupid that i think i saw fonzie in his leather jacket on water skis in the background.