XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 14, 2007 18:17:05 ET XXXXXGood grief... it really has come to this point, hasn't it?IS FOX SET TO BLOW THE NUKES ON '24'?
Sun Jan 14 2007 18:14:34 ETAs Washington continues to raise concerns about terror threats on The Homeland -- a recent CIA report outlined a scenerio of possible "series of explosions using 'low charge' nuclear weapons" -- Hollywood and FOX-TV are set to up the ante with the new season of 24!
Few outside of the 24 set know the exact details of the new season unfolding, but studio sources claim producers are pushing hard to take it radioactive this time -- and keep it there.
"Time to wake the country up!" a top FOX source told the DRUDGE REPORT over the weekend. "I do not think there has ever been TV done like this, the viewer is going to be completely riveted."
The source claims executives are prepared for any fallout from local municipalities that may be on the receiving end of plot turns and twists. How many cities 24 puts on 'nuke alert' is unclear.
FOX has set a highly-controversial espisode of 24 to air Monday night, opposite NBC's GOLDEN GLOBES.
In 2002, White House officials questioned the timing and release of PARAMOUNT's action movie SUM OF ALL FEARS -- a movie which depicts a nuclear bomb unleashed on an American sporting event!
One senior Bush official, who spoke to the DRUDGE REPORT at the time, claimed the movie crossed over the line of civic responsibility and commerce.
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I mean, the line now between real-life and fictional entertainment has become so blurred, that the possible use of nuclear weapons on an hour-long TV drama rates as serious breaking news. Worse, the producers are said to be "prepared" for the outcry from the cities they plan to wipe out. On the show. Not in the real world. Just on teevee. Which is fake...
And to think that some people thought that the whole "Who Shot J.R.?" thing was too much.
I tried to get into 24. Honest. I missed the first season except for the finale where Kiefer Sutherland shot Dennis Hopper about 5,348 times in the space of six seconds with that gun and thought that maybe I should give it a try the next season. That came along and I watched for about three episodes before it lost my interest. That's not to say 24 is a bad show, just that it's formula never caught hold with me. I've always thought that Kiefer Sutherland is a great actor, too (my favorite performance of his is probably in Flatliners). Maybe I'm missing something by not "getting" 24 and this really is supposed to be a big deal. But for what might happen on the new season of 24 to rate as serious news over everything else that's going on in this world... well, that says something about where our sense of priorities are, in my humble opinion.
But if anyone is willing to write me and tell me personally that I should give 24 another go and that this is something I could definitely dig, I might be willing to check it out again.
Everyone makes such a big deal out of 24, that it's really refreshing to hear of someone else that doesn't "get" it.
ReplyDeleteI watched every episode of the first season, sometimes impressed by the action, intrigue, and original format but also frustrated sometimes by how ludicrous it was. Funny how episodes are supposed to show action in real time, but no one ever has to go to the bathroom, no major character every sleeps, and no one ever gets stuck in traffic--in L.A.
Also, including a threat to Jack's family became a running theme in the show for the first couple seasons, but all it did was slow things down and distract from the action. Supposedly, that part's gotten better in the last few seasons.
The worst part of all was the horrible final moments of the first season finale (won't spoil it for you what happened, but it was meant to be something tragic that came off feeling like an anti-climactic afterthought).
Then, I gave season two a chance for a few episodes and gave up on it. I intentionally forced myself to not even give a moment of season three a try, and I've successfully stayed away from it ever since.
Whenever I see a commercial for it, I'm always surprised by just how over-the-top Kiefer Sutherland's acting is, and from everything I hear from other people talking about the show, it sounds like they make Jack Bauer out to be a virtual superhero.
Count me in your camp. I just don't "get" this show either (and it's a good thing too; I already watch too many others TV shows to start with).