24 season 6 possible spoiler....

[Pink Ranger]

The cast a 24 was on C-Span the other day with Russ Limbaugh and ..it was confirmed by the producer that President Logan will be in season 6.......and possibly 'Tony Almeida!'

What, is it going to be a Lazarus Pits-type situation?

 

[Gamma Ray]

Why is everyone so excited about [BLACKOUT]Milo?[/BLACKOUT] He didn't do anything in season 1 that would warrant such excitement.

 

[Golgo-13]

What, is it going to be a Lazarus Pits-type situation?

Remember we didn't actually see him die, per say. He was there at the Limbargh conference, maybe they were screwing around...but something tells me they're not!

 

[Shifty]

Why is everyone so excited about [BLACKOUT]Milo?[/BLACKOUT] He didn't do anything in season 1 that would warrant such excitement.

[BLACKOUT]He has a pretty decent following and off all the people who are still alive and worked in CTU is the most liked. Fans have wanted him back since season two but the actor has always had other projects going on. So it seemed like he would never appear again.[/BLACKOUT] Could Mandy being showing up again this season?

For Tony appearing again, well they could use an old video of Tony which relates to the current crisis. Palmer's voice was heard after he died.

 

[Shifty]

August 27, 2006
Only '24' hours in a day

By Maria Elena Fernandez, Times Staff Writer

Jon CASSAR was sitting in his director's chair on the Oval Office set of "24" during a typically hectic day for the first-time Emmy director nominee. Cassar was filming the first two hours of the Fox drama's sixth season, and there was an awful lot he has to live up to.

The first two hours of "24," which Fox airs in one night, have become a January event for the show's rabid fans. He earned his Emmy nomination for last season's first episode, deemed by critics and fans as one of the most memorable dramatic hours of the entire TV season. In its first 12 heart-stopping minutes, two main characters were killed, including the beloved former U.S. President David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) and a third was critically injured, forcing Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) out of hiding in the Mojave Desert. It started with a bang and never relented, and now Cassar must find a way to outdo himself.

Can he? Probably not, he thinks. Part of the problem is that he cannot even remember how he carried out the mission last year. "Every year those first two hours feel like I'm doing a movie. What I remember is that it was very difficult and, as usual, there was a lot of agenda in it. But right now, I am so knee-deep in getting this show ready that I cannot remember details.

"Look, every year people have said to us the same exact thing: 'There's no way you can do it again.' And you know what? Most of the time we agree with them. I think it's very hard to beat killing off main characters that were with us for four or five years and to kill them off within the first act. To try to top that, I don't think so. But you're not going to be bored."

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On this particular afternoon in Chatsworth, Cassar is establishing the show's White House story, which has always been integral to the spy thriller set in the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles. The writers, it seems, have come up with a doozy: Wayne Palmer, the deceased former president's brother who was with him when he was assassinated, has become the leader of the free world. How this goes down, nobody is telling. But here he (D.B. Woodside) is, the first time viewers see him in the Oval Office, and in typical "24" fashion, things are not good.

America is already under some form of terrorist attack when the season opens, and Jack, who was last seen literally on a slow boat to China, has been behind bars there for 20 months. So the new president is ticked. Cassar coaches the actor on the gradations of anger — "Be angry at the situation, not the people" — and when Woodside, Peter MacNicol, who has joined the cast as a presidential special advisor, and Jayne Atkinson, who plays Karen Hayes, a Homeland Security official, perform the scene again, it is gripping.

"It's always a little harder from my point of view being the first director on this show because it's really like doing a pilot where you're establishing all the characters and how their relationships are going to interact," Cassar said. "We start off with virtually a new cast every year. So once you get the first two down, then there's a groove, but the first two are the hardest."

Stephen Hopkins ("The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" and "Lost in Space") directed the series pilot and set its style and tone. Shot entirely for "human height," that is with no shots from up above or down below, "24" moves fast only when its actors are running to give the audience the feeling of being inside the scene with them. "Our camera angles are always real, and what happens is that you don't realize it but you're a voyeur," Cassar said. "That's why we are behind things a lot or through things. There's nobody there but the audience; that's the audience point of view."

During the first season, Cassar, who had worked with executive producers Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran in Canada on the TV series "La Femme Nikita," was hired to direct two episodes. Then Hopkins left to continue his feature film career, and Surnow hired Cassar, a virtual unknown in Hollywood, to become the show's director-producer.

Cassar, 48, was born in Malta and was raised in Canada, where he was a film buff and studied photography before moving on to his film and television career as a camera operator. His first U.S. directing gig was on "Baywatch Nights" in 1995, but he remained based in Canada until he moved to Los Angeles with his wife and younger son four years ago. (Cassar also has a 24-year-old son.)

'This is the best place to be'

The idea of directing a television series full time does not appeal to many directors because the work becomes repetitive and the commitment is long-term. But series such as "The Sopranos" and "24" have changed the face of television, enticing more feature actors, producers and directors to work in the medium. Sometimes they even decide to stay. Cassar said he approached the offer as a "one-year" experiment but quickly realized that "24's" serialized, high-action, real-time format meant boredom was not likely to set in.

"Most television directors do a couple of episodes and then you go somewhere else because there's no challenge in doing the same thing over and over and over again," Cassar said. "But on this show, you're really doing, like, a big miniseries. You never to get push the easy button."

As the years pass, it becomes even more challenging to keep Jack Bauer's long days fresh. Executive producer Howard Gordon and Cassar said they considered quitting after last season, which proved to be "24's" biggest yet: The series received 12 Emmy nominations, more than any other show, including nods for Sutherland as best actor and Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart, for their supporting roles as the president and first lady. It also grew its audience 14%.

"Television is in its heyday," Cassar said. "These last few years, if you look at the quality of television, it's spectacular. I've had two feature directors, whose films I grew up watching, come in and sit next to me to see how I do what I do. To me, right now, this is the best place to be."

And tonight Cassar will be in good company, competing in the drama category with Rodrigo Garcia ("Big Love"), Alan Ball ("Six Feet Under"), Jack Bender ("Lost"), Tim Van Patten and David Nutter (different episodes of "The Sopranos"), and Mimi Leder ("The West Wing"). The job, invisible until recently, is now coveted by feature A-listers such as Spike Lee, who shot a pilot for CBS this past spring.

Gordon says Cassar deserves the nomination mostly because he is a "miracle" worker. "I don't know entirely how Jon and Michael Glick, who is our line producer, do what they do. I mean, in some ways we write things to challenge them, expecting that they're going to come back and knock down our door, saying what ... were you thinking? More often than not, they figure out how to do the impossible."

Like when one of last year's scripts called for a 747 to land on Highway 118. Or, at the last minute, a location was changed to a nuclear submarine. Or the writers wanted to blow up Air Force One, with the president surviving.

"Production is twofold: One, there is a budget. But the other thing we have to do is we have to give the writers what they want," Cassar said. "You want them to stay open. You don't want them writing for budget because if they do that, then we're in [the Counter Terrorist Unit] for 60 minutes and that's not exciting."

So Cassar reads a script and gathers his team — Glick, director-producer Brad Turner and production designer Joseph Hodges — and they come up with a plan for, say, landing a 747 on Highway 118 without an actual airplane or a highway at their disposal.

"We think about the shots — what shots do we need to make an audience think we've landed a 747 on the 118, and we go from there," Cassar said.

First up was building a cockpit so the audience can share Jack's point of view from inside it; then came three CGI shots of airplane wheels and, lastly, concrete barriers and a stripe next to an airplane on a tarmac posing as a jet on a highway. With all those elements in place, the illusion was fashioned.

"This show is obviously not entirely credible, but it has to be credible in its spirit," Gordon said. "If Jon says he can't sell it, I know something's wrong. Jon really spares us. He is a great touchstone as an audience member and as a fan. He's the conductor, in many ways."


- Ah well atleast they're thinking about quitting. They would've went out on top. Now? Who knows.

 

[The Caped Knight]

I'm not counting them out yet, I have 100 % faith The Season 6 Preimere is going to blow Last Years Preimere out of the water, breaking new ground in the storylines .

I Can't wait on January 14th, 2007. ["24" The Best Tv Show drama series Returns]

 

[The Caped Knight]

Elizabeth rules but Jack Bauer is the man of the hour

http://www.smh.com.au/news/tv--radio/jack-bauer-is-the-man-of-the-hour/2006/08/28/1156617275218.html

Chloe look's beautiful .

 

[The Caped Knight]

New Season 6 spoilers from Tv guides Ask Ausiello


Question: In honor of 24's drama win, how 'bout you give us some more wonderful 24 scoop? — Justin

Ausiello: Sounds reasonable to me. I caught up with nominee Gregory Itzin on the red carpet and he revealed that

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President Logan will resurface around the midday point. "It started with, 'Oh, you'll be back around [Episode] 7 or 8,'" he says. "Now it looks like it'll be 9 or 10. The story tells itself for those guys. They know they want me back and it will organically happen." The only question now is how Logan will be woven back into Jack's nightmarish day.

Luckily, Itzin's got the answer to that, too.

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"He has information that they need," he offers, "which is why they come after him."

Question: Will Kim Raver be back on 24 this season? — Judith

Ausiello: Yes! Raver told me at the Emmys

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that Audrey's return was simply a question of when, not if. "We want to find the appropriate moment, so we're waiting,"

she says. "Kiefer and I and the producers, we're all talking about it to find the key moment." And despite her new gig on ABC's buzz-worthy drama The Nine, Raver says she'll be able to drop in for more than one episode. "People really want them to be together. It's a huge compliment."

 

[ultimatefan]

I´d like to see Logan come back... To see if Jack gets to beat the **** out of him this time...

 

[The Caped Knight]

I´d like to see Logan come back... To see if Jack gets to beat the **** out of him this time...

I'd love to see that too .

 

[souvlaki]

Hmm...

Spoiler

so Jack is still in Chinese custody at the beginning of the season. I'm wondering how they pull off bringing him back in a decent time span. The only thing I can really picture is Wayne Palmer negotiated his return before the start of the season, and he is returned within the first hour.

 

[Golgo-13]

Spoiler from '24 The podcast' website!

First eps is 6am to 7am. Buchanan is negotiating with 'Fayed' to get info on 'Assad'. Fayed will only trade info for custody of Jack. Jack isn’t in CTU custody. He appears to be cooperating with Bill and Curtis because he knows it’s the only way to stop the bad guys. Fayed tells Bill that in order for them to get to Assad, they have to lock Jack to a fence and then they'll be given Assad's location. When Fayed gets Jack he proceeds to torture him for what Jack had done to his brother. Fayed 'admires the Chinese handiwork', the many scars on Jack's torso, and his burned and scarred hands. Fayed beats and kicks Jack, then has him strapped to a chair and starts with a knife. Meanwhile, Morris is consoling Chloe, at work, because Buchanan gave the baddies Jack. Turns out 'Assad' is actually a good guy and 'Fayed' made it look like he was a baddie so CTU would kill him. Fayed set up Assad because he betrayed the cause. He tells this to Jack before he kills him, as all supervillians do, then steps out to take a call. Big mistake. Jack attacks the lone guard by biting his throat open.
Source - SecretAgentMan at TWoP

 

[Jspider13]

http://www.24trailer.com/

 

[The Apocalypse]

Who is Fayed and Assad? I remember those name but I forget who.

 

[Golgo-13]

Bump

 

[hlbimage]

Powers Boothe (Gorilla Groth on JLU) joined the cast of 24 as the new Vice president.

http://community.tvguide.com/thread.jspa?threadID=700010397

 

[Greenshirt]

On the trailer, did I see Sarah Gavin (Lana Parilla) from Season 4?

 

[JackBauer]

On the trailer, did I see Sarah Gavin (Lana Parilla) from Season 4?

I think that's her. not certain, but it looks and sounds like her.