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<p>When last we saw traitorous President Charles Logan in Season 6, he was flatlining en route to a hospital after being stabbed by his wife, Martha, with a kitchen knife. He hasn't been heard from since.</p> <p>But it looks like he survived: Fox announced Sunday night that Gregory Itzin will reprise his role as the fallen president in a multiple-episode arc. Season 8 of "24" will premiere in a two-hour event Jan. 17.</p>

Nine Months After Appearing On Glenn Beck Show, Actress Claims to "Hate" him by Edna Mode In January, 24's Mary Lynn Rajskub appeared on Glenn Beck's show and talked about her second career as a painter. Interested in her work, Beck asked the actress to send pictures and Beck put Rajskub's artwork on his website for all to see. Nine months later, the actress repaid the favor by claiming to "hate" him. The remark came in this twitter exchange with Hollywood screenwriter/activist Jhoni Marchinko: Marchinko: @rajskub: that's a good start. maybe next you'll support my despisal for teabaggers and glenn...

Jack Bauer wouldn't stand for this! In its 8th season, 24 producers have taken every step necessary to ensure that audiences will be delighted in the event that the show is suddenly canceled. Several alternative endings have been written in case the show should come to an early end! "We're flexible. We have a scenario that would work well if the show ends. But we also have scenarios where it could go on," said executive producer Evan Katz. We thought the show was HUGE! Fox does have a rep for "arresting development" of shows too early! Just sayin'! Do U...

Mary Lynn Rajskub's has never been one to stick to convention, and the 24 star's wedding to personal trainer Matthew Rolph over the weekend at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas was no exception. The actress, wearing an ivory wedding gown with lace overlay by Nicole Miller, was walked down the aisle Saturday by the couple's 1-year-old son Valentine to Elvis's "A Little Less Conversation." The groom wore a white Hugo Boss suit. "We didn't know that getting married at a casino in Vegas with Elvis could be so romantic," Rajskub tells PEOPLE exclusively. "Our wedding was...

Noted Chicagoan and basketballophile Barack Obama appears to be writing off the California vote in 2012, at least the basketball fans around Los Angeles. In a pre-holiday interview with the Associated Press, Obama was asked who was the better player -- six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan or four-time champion Kobe Bryant? Without even a moment's hesitation, the ex-senator from Illinois blurted out, "Oh, Michael!" Then, apparently realizing what he'd just said and the profound impact on any 2012 election, the new president hastened to add: "I mean, Kobe's terrific. Don't get me wrong. But I haven't seen anybody match up...

Finally a Time Change for "24" by Ednamode 24 is changing its setting in more than one way for season 8. Not only will the show be set in New York City, the season will be starting at a vastly different time of day: 4:00PM. In recent years, the biggest complain amongst many of the die-hard fans, was that the show's Power's That Be had taken the time of day for granted, especially on a show where a ticking clock is a major character. Five of the past six seasons started between 6:00AM and 8:00AM, giving each season an almost...

Shoreh Aghdashloo, who stars in the upcoming and powerful film The Stoning of Soraya M, appeared today on Fox & Friends to discuss the uprising in her native Iran. From my earlier encounter with Aghdashloo, I know that she emigrated from Iran to escape the repressive Islamist revolution, and it took years for her to get her family out of the country as she worked in the West for democratic change in Iran. How does she see the protests, in the context of her own struggle? Aghdashloo confessed to mixed emotions (via YidwithLid):

The producers of 24 have given Season 8 a shot of Starbuck, by adding Battlestar Galactica bad-ass Katee Sackhoff to the next cycle's already sharp-looking cast. Sackhoff will play Dana Walsh, a data analyst at the New York City branch of CTU, EW's Michael Ausiello reports. What's more, her computer wonk will be romantically entangled with Freddie Prinze Jr.'s CTU field ops director. Dana is also said to have a skeleton in her closet, meaning that her being revealed as a treasonous mole is only paying even money in Las Vegas. Other previously announced Season 8 castings include Mykelti Williamson...

Freddie Prinze Jr. as Jack Bauer Jr.? Sources said Prinze is joining the cast of Fox's "24" as a regular, playing Davis Cole, a recently returned Marine who runs CTU Field Ops and wants to follow in Jack Bauer's (Kiefer Sutherland) footsteps. On the real-time drama, whose upcoming eighth season started production Wednesday, Prinze joins fellow new cast additions Anil Kapoor, who plays a Middle East leader; Chris Diamantopoulos, as the president's new chief of staff; and John Boyd as a CTU systems analyst. All of them are regulars, while Jennifer Westfeldt has come aboard as a recurring, playing a...

(translated from French) I have a scoop, yes. The next season of 24, which narrates the adventures of the intrepid agent against terrorist Jack Bauer, aka Kiefer Sutherland, will be held at UN Headquarters. New York. Jack Bauer, dragged to court during the previous season for his brutal methods and unorthodox, has experienced a deep personal turmoil, and intends to devote to the maintenance of international peace in his new home of the United Nations. This turmoil confirms victory of virtue, the new consciousness of the American superpower in the Obama era, especially the triumph of the Department of Public...

(IsraelNN.com) The IDF Central Command has warned residents of 24 Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria that they face eviction in the near future. Thousands of people who reside in the communities could find themselves homeless. The list of communities facing demolition includes towns that were built up to 10 years ago, such as Migron and Givat Assaf. Senior members of the Ichud Leumi party were informed by IDF officials that the towns will be evicted either peaceably or by force before June 6, the date on which United States President Barack Obama plans to give a historic address to...

Watch as Mary Lynn admits that they made her do the Going Green PSA. She doesn't even know what a carbon footprint is and even made fun of it in this very strange video interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLIW-e1Cags

"Here’s what we know about the show’s eighth, and perhaps final season. A year-and-a-half to two years will have elapsed since the end of Season 7, with the action moving from the White House to the U.N. building in New York City. Cherry Jones is back as President Allison Taylor. “I don’t think they know quite what to do with me yet,” says Jones. “At first I heard they needed me for only a couple episodes, but I do seem now to have a little bit more to do.” Cherry says the new season will expand beyond an American threat...

I haven't watched the stale, sagging FOX show, "24," in ages. It gets tiresome to watch so many Muslims as either terrorists who are ultimately puppets for the evil White man or completely innocent and framed... But, last night, as serendipity would have it, I accidentally landed on FOX. And guess what? More of the same...

It took a little more than 24 hours, and there was no ticking time bomb scenario, but Kiefer Sutherland finally made it. Jack Bauer's alter ego arrived this afternoon at a New York police station where he is due to be interrogated about allegedly head-butting a fashion designer at a party early Tuesday. According to an NYPD spokeswoman, the 42-year-old Sutherland showed up at about 4 p.m. ET at the 1st Precinct in lower Manhattan. He did not address reporters as he entered the building flanked by his lawyers. He will likely be booked on one count of misdemeanor assault...

McCollough claimed Sutherland, star of Fox television's "24," attacked him after an argument at the club, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

iefer Sutherland rose to Brooke Shields's defense early Tuesday morning in Downtown Manhattan – though she didn't particularly request it, and the interloper allegedly suffered a broken nose from the 24 star, according to reports. "There was an incident that occurred at 2 a.m. at 99 Prince [Street]," a NYPD spokesperson tells PEOPLE. "It's all under investigation by the police department … People will come in sometime this afternoon [to be questioned]. New York's Daily News reports that Proenza Schouler women's wear designer Jack McCollough – a friend of Shields's – interrupted her and Sutherland while they were speaking outside...

Just plain fun to watch.

The actions of Barack Obama in recent weeks raise a profound question. What if the FBI arrested some terrorists and determined they had information about a nuclear bomb smuggled into the United States and agents had reason to believe they had only hours to prevent a detonation in a major city? What would Obama do? Would he be content merely asking the terrorists where the bomb was? That's the impression I get from the administration's phobia about coercive interrogations. Not only is Obama declaring to the world that the U.S. will definitely disallow coercive interrogations in such a scenario, he...

1; Hollywood: 0. Janeane Garofalo - actress, liberal activist and failed radio host - went after Rush Limbaugh, the nation's top-rated talk-radio host, during a recent interview with the Village Voice. She said she almost turned down her role in the hit Fox series "24" because of "the right-wing nature of a couple of the writers." To prove her liberal credibility, she added that: "When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything." Few screenwriters write such good fiction. The problem with...

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I've never, that I can recall, ever posted a vanity post, so forgive me on this one.

BREAKING NEWS: Janeane Garofalo has showered By Hugh Ken Knott B. Sirius In a shocking turn of events, leftist comedienne/actress/activist Janeane Garofalo has showered and shampooed her hair. Sources tell us the diminutive Garofalo showered this morning, after friends grew tired of her strange body odor and perfume. “I told Janeane enough is enough. I said, girl, this is my shower. Shower, this is Janeane. I even let her use my baby’s body wash and shampoo because I thought that she might have a bad reaction after not showering for a while,” said 24 co-star and friend Mary Lynn Rajskub....

Janeane Garofalo drew a fair amount of unwarranted flack a couple years ago when she dared to take a role on 24, a show whose torture-filled plotlines don't quite match up with her own well-known progressive views. Now that same old non-issue is back in the news because Garofalo has told The Village Voice that she snubbed such fine Americans as Rush Limbaugh and Lynne Cheney when they visited the set of 24. "I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything," Garofalo recalled. "When somebody came to me privately and said 'do you want...

Is Janeane Garofalo lying about Rush Limbaugh? It sure seems that way. Ms. Garofalo, the actress, liberal activist, and failed radio host went after Mr.Limbaugh, the number-one rated talk-radio host in the country, during a recent interview with the Village Voice. An exclusive interview with Mr. Limbaugh raises questions about the actress' honesty.

I just gave "24" the 3 red thumbs of death on my Tivo. After jenene garafalo last rant about conservatives, I can't stand to see her. I refuse to watch the show now after watching for years.

Interview: Janeane Garofalo on 24, Henry Rollins, and Her Inevitable Run for Junior Senator of Minnesota By Sam McPheeters in Featured, Interview, Janeane Garofalo, Sam McPheeters Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 9:30AM "When Rush Limbaugh visited the set, and when Lynne Cheney visited the set, I refused to have my picture taken with them or meet them or anything." Janeane Garofalo is known for biting standup, stints on SNL, The Larry Sanders Show and The West Wing, and her pioneering contributions to Air America Radio. But it was her 2003 opposition to the Iraq War that converted Garofalo into a...

After six seasons in Los Angeles and one in D.C., Jack Bauer is taking his one-man show to Broadway! Sources confirm to me exclusively that 24 is relocating to New York next season. Production on Day 8 begins next month, but already details are emerging. In addition to the move to the Big Apple, CTU will make a comeback under the leadership of a new, yet-to-be-cast male character by the name of Brian Hastings. Described as an MBA type with a razor sharp intellect, Hastings will be joined by two new twentysomething agents (one male, one female), as well as...

Rush Limbaugh plants a kiss on actor Mary Lynn Rajskub (24's "Chloe O'Brien") after a panel discussion at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, June 23, 2006 RUSH: I urged all of you to watch "24" yesterday when we ended the show. I said, "Watch '24.' It's great tonight," and so you watched it, and I've gotten a lot of e-mails 'cause when the show was over, they had that dunce Chloe read some PSA about how she wants everybody to join Jack Bauer to save the world from global warming. I had all these people writing me, "I'm not...

<p>In previous seasons, we've gotten a major death, a biological attack, Jack faking his own death, being kidnapped by the Chinese and plain ol' pontificating.</p> <p>But how will season seven of "24" click to a close? "The most I can tell you is that it is not going to end because someone cuts two wires and the clock on the bomb stops," Kiefer recently revealed.</p>

The following takes place in an unseen episode of "24." Tony Almeda, glowering, is watching the President live on a television in a coffee shop across the street from the White House. The President (on screen): "In particular, I would like to speak directly to the people and leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Nowruz is just one part of your great and celebrated culture...." Without taking his eyes off the screen, Tony punches in a number on his cell. Jack Bauer answers. "Yeah," he breathes, also watching the president on a mirror server uploaded to his monitor. The...

Thank goodness for the wonder of DVR technology. I was able to see both of these last night. Did any of you manage to see these both? We all know "24" and its edge-of-your-seat national security threats, but I was caught a bit off guard by "Heroes" and this latest episode. Swoosie Kurtz was eating at a diner, and she was reading a book, "RONALD REAGAN - An American life". As the episode progressed, it seemed clear to me that the producers were equating the oppression we conservatives are feeling right now to the witch hunt the "Heroes" in the...

HONG KONG – Kiefer Sutherland will be back to play Jack Bauer for an eighth season of the hit counterterrorism drama "24," but the show's longevity will depend on its writers, the actor said Tuesday. The 42-year-old said "24," currently in its seventh season, will start shooting its eighth in May. He spoke during an interview in Hong Kong to promote the new 3-D animated movie "Monsters vs. Aliens," in which he voices the character of General W.R. Monger. Sutherland, whose gritty portrayal of the counterterrorism agent has made Bauer an iconic character, said he's committed to the show that's...

To mark the midpoint of the season and maybe to celebrate the first season set in Washington D.C. instead of Los Angeles, the makers of "24" had something special planned for Monday's two-hour "event." (Spoiler alert, DVR enthusiasts). Hitting the President where she lives and sending a foreign force into a surprisingly ill-protected White House made for a dramatic two hours, but also a kind of frustrating one: They got there via underwater route? The president turned herself up to a foreign force out of sentimentality - saving her daughter? Executive producer Howard Gordon addressed the questions in a teleconference...

During the last 15 minutes of the hit show "24", Keifer Sutherland talks about climate change and how the screening of "24" is a "green" studio....

I apologize that I can't write a better vanity at 12 AM. I just finished watching the two hour episode on DVR. It confirmed why I don't watch anything the networks put out on TV. I'm a geek who watches cable news, sports and John Wayne movies. 24 has become unwatchable. I love the premise.....brave and great Americans do things including torture to protect the lives of their fellow citizens. But a WWE wrestling match is more believable than this nonsense. It can't just be me. Fellow FReepers must agree. There isn't a single mention of 24 on any thread...

Jack Bauer Now Uses Recycled Weapons Fox will announce today that thriller "24" is going green. Whether Kiefer Sutherland, who plays agent Jack Bauer, will start slamming terrorist suspects' heads into tables made from salvaged pine beams, or making close call getaways in helicopters fueled by leftover french fry oil, is unclear. But according to a New York Times article yesterday, the network has stepped things up to become the first "carbon neutral show." Fox has "hired consultants to measure the carbon-dioxide output from the production, started using 20 percent biodiesel fuel in trucks and generators, installed motion monitors in...

For six seasons, I never minded that "24's" Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) completely demolished a person's civil rights, even if it meant torturing or killing a suspect. Whether it was decapitating a murder suspect to infiltrate a terrorist group (he used the head as proof he was worthy to join the group), or killing a fellow federal agent to keep his cover, I believed the anti-terrorist agent had to do the unthinkable to save America. Until now. For some reason, this new seventh season, which has only been moderately entertaining as it involves an African general terrorizing America, has bothered...

"The reason a person is a conservative republican is because something is wrong with them. Again, that’s science – that’s neuroscience. You cannot be well adjusted, open-minded, pluralistic, enlightened and be a republican. It’s counter-intuitive. And they revel in their anti-intellectualism. They revel in their cruelty. I don’t know if you heard me talking to Jenny a while ago, but I was saying that first you have to be an asshole and then comes the conservatism. You gotta be a dick to cleave onto their ideology."

In most offices, having even one sarcastic, socially artless computer expert is barely tolerable. But on “24,” the Fox action serial, the collision of two acerbic, tech-savvy employees played by Janeane Garofalo and Mary Lynn Rajskub is a welcome development for viewers. Monday night’s episode of “24” features the pairing up of sorts between Chloe O’Brian (Ms. Rajskub), the computer hacker who has long helped guide the hero Jack Bauer through his life-or-death adventures, and Janis Gold (Ms. Garofalo), an F.B.I. agent deeply suspicious of her new office mate Chloe. It is a rivalry meant to leaven the often-grim, high-pressure...

Are you a conservative? Then you're a d***, and there's something wrong with your brain. At least that's what "24" actress and comedienne Janeane Garofalo believes. According to the former Air America radio host, a conservative starts out an “a**hole,” and the politics come later. She asserted, “The reason a person is a conservative republican (sic) is because something is wrong with them...It really is neuroscience.”

Sri Lankan Suresh Joachim, from Toronto, has broken his own world record for watching non-stop TV, in Sweden. Joachim set the previous world record of 69 hours and 48 minutes in 2005 but has now exceeded that with 72 hours in front of a box in Stockholm, watching three series of Kiefer Sutherland’s 24. Quite why he had to go to Sweden is anyone’s guess but he was probably sponsored by a local TV station. In the process he consumed “between 25 and 30 cups of coffee”, caffeinated one presumes. So well done Suresh. But did he see any ads,...

NewsWorld NewsNorth AmericaUSA Barack Obama Barack Obama 'kidnaps' 24 hero Jack Bauer US conservatives claim that the 24 character Jack Bauer has been 'kidnapped' by the new liberal agenda of President-Elect Barack Obama. By Tim Shipman in Washington 11 Jan 2009 US conservatives say Jack Bauer from 24 has been 'kidnapped' by the new liberal agenda of President-Elect Barack Obama. As the hero of the television action series, Bauer became a modern icon of rugged American values and a fictional flag waver for the Bush administration's determination to defeat terrorists. The intelligence agent, played by Keifer Sutherland, has never been...

To my Conservative Friends: The much anticipated return of 24 starring Kiefer Sutherland had its 2-night, 4 hour premiere this week and for our bed-wetting, terrorist-coddling friends on the left side of the buffet table, it could not come at a worse time as the Messiah's coronation as Prophet-in-Chief is all but hours away as the looney bleeding-hearts count down every second with unrivaled anticipation... Barry and the Appeasers in DC are set to turn back the clock on fighting terrorism to September 10, 2001 as he has plans to all but gut our Anti-Terrorism efforts President Bush and his...

After a nearly two year sabbatical, the series 24 has returned -- much to the delight of the political class in America which seems to have made the long-running drama a litmus test of where one stands on issues relating to war, to executive power, and to the role of the United States in a dangerous and unpredictable world. Indeed, while conservatives have claimed the show as their own since the series debuted shortly after the 9/11 attacks and embraced Jack Bauer as an authentic American hero, liberals have also admitted to watching the show and deriving satisfaction from the...

CALLER: I was over at my in-laws' house last night watching the two-hour season seven of "24," and what a great show last night. I'm looking forward to it tonight also. And the one thing, Rush, I wanted to say was one of my favorite scenes was when Jack was sitting in the SUV with the young FBI agent -- and if Cookie could get the audio clip of this and play it, I tell you -- and the gentleman looks back, he goes, "Mr. Bauer," and Jack kind of looks at him, and, "You know, it's wrong what the...

I often wonder how liberals can stand watching 24, given how often and how effectively it challenges so many liberal premises. But then I recall how often the liberal squishyness of Law & Order annoys me, yet I never miss an episode. I guess if a show entertains you enough, or perhaps challenges your preconceptions effectively enough, most of us will put up with it. But irritate liberals it has. After the show was criticized - by the U.S. Army, no less - for its depiction of heroic CTU agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) torturing bad guys as a means...

This weekend, Jack Bauer returns to save all things great and small during the latest fictional crisis to be played out over one agonizingly long day.  No doubt he will be the same old Jack, not a man known for subtlety or nuance.  Bullets will fly, some bombs will explode, while others tick away, and the good guys will ultimately prevail.  In a strange and ironic juxtaposition, as faithful viewers begin another seasonal journey with 24, a real-life drama is unfolding, one that involves the appointment of someone who represents ideas as un-like Jack Bauer as possible.  President-Elect Barack Obama...

Ok folks here's the new thread for the new season. .................................................................................Set in Washington, DC, "Day 7" opens four years after Season Six with CTU dismantled and JACK BAUER on trial. Bauer's day takes an unexpected turn when former colleague TONY ALMEIDA returns. Meanwhile, newly elected President ALLISON TAYLOR leads the country alongside White House Chief of Staff ETHAN KANIN and First Gentleman HENRY TAYLOR. A national security crisis prompts an investigation by a team of FBI agents including JANIS GOLD, RENEE WALKER, LARRY MOSS and SEAN HILLINGER. Although CTU is no longer, CHLOE O'BRIAN and BILL BUCHANAN are back for...

US conservatives say Jack Bauer from 24 has been 'kidnapped' by the new liberal agenda of President-Elect Barack Obama. As the hero of the television action series, Bauer became a modern icon of rugged American values and a fictional flag waver for the Bush administration's determination to defeat terrorists. The intelligence agent, played by Keifer Sutherland, has never been afraid to torture or shoot to kill while tackling villainous foreigners intent on waging war on the American homeland. But now US conservatives are up in arms that the election of President-Elect Barack Obama has led the show's producers to pander...