On a day with a barrage of cancellations from NBC, axing Deception, Guys With Kids, Whitney, Up All Night and 1600 Penn, it´s time to move to Fox, cancelling Touch after its second season, and what would´ve served as a season finale Continue reading
Election Day is just around the corner, next week, with a race to become the next POTUS between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
I am not a political analyst, so what I can do is make a ranking of the best presidents on TV, as there have been several unforgettable portrayals both on comedy and sketches, as on Drama Television, and even on Sci-Fi.
UPDATE: 24 oficially cancelled by Fox. Via Twitter, Just found out we got the word officially. This is 24′s last season was the message from Mary Lynn Rajskub, also Jon Cassar tweeted about 24 cancellation.
We are reviewing all the cancelled shows and renewed shows of the season.
And this cannot be seen as bad news… Fox is leaning towards cancelling 24 after 8 seasons.
Is this totally out of the blue? Nope.
Is this good? Maybe not either. But the show has had a great long run of eight whole seasons, and it´s rumoured could be picked up by another network if this cancellation is confirmed.
So… is 24 cancelled by Fox?
Probably, just not a sure thing yet… I´d say a 90%.
24 is one of the hottest shows for seven seasons already. It made the jump to the big screen, and it keeps rolling.
Yesterday an all new episode of 24 aired.
Here, filled with 24 spoilers for all of you…
The season finale opens with Chloe working on Husband Operative’s laptop to try and find Jack. Walker tells Kim they currently have no other leads.
We see Jack slide under the garage door of a taxi company. He smashes out one of the back windows just as Tony sticks his head inside and begins shooting. Jack closes the garage door and notices gasoline pouring out of one of the cabs. He kneels in the gas, trying to spark a flare and set himself on fire to prevent his organs from being harvested for the pathogen. Tony pushes the flare aside just in time and knocks Jack out with the butt of his gun.
Kanin and Pierce confront Olivia with the audio recording of her conversation with Martin. She tries to stop Kanin from coming forward with the information, even offering him his old job. All Kanin wants is for Olivia to tell President Taylor what she has done and let her mother decide what should happen.
Tony tells a handcuffed Jack that he has no intention of allowing a new pathogen to be created. It turns out for the past four years Tony has been trying to get close to Wilson, whom he says was behind Charles Logan, President Palmer’s assassination and the murder of his wife. Though he allowed some innocent people to die, Tony believes he saved more lives in the course of investigating Michelle’s death. Jack disagrees. Not believing he’ll be able to get near Wilson himself, Tony’s plan is to load Jack with explosives and blow him up when he gets close to Wilson.
Cara tells Tony that Wilson will arrive soon. She tells him that Wilson “doesn’t know about us,” and that it is best they keep it a secret.
Wilson rolls up in a limo. After Tony and Cara are searched he gets out of the car. Tony pitches his worth to Wilson and his organization as Jack is brought forward. Just then Walker shows up in a helicopter and a firefight ensues. Jack manages to break free of his captors and Tony follows Wilson and Cara into a nearby warehouse. Walker shoots her way to Jack and is able to diffuse the explosives on his chest. She tells him Kim is safe and he tells her that “to end this for good” they must stop Tony from killing Wilson.
Tony makes his way toward Cara and Wilson, quickly killing Cara and pointing his gun at Wilson’s forehead. He gives Wilson a speech about staying alive just to be able to find him and detailing how Wilson ruined his life. Not only did Wilson have Michelle killed, but he had her killed while she was pregnant. Walker and Jack arrive just in time, shooting Tony in the shoulder and hand to keep him from killing Wilson.
Walker confronts the handcuffed Wilson about his role in Moss’ death and suggests cooperation is the only way he can avoid the death penalty. Wilson tells her there will not be any evidence connecting him to anything illegal which causes her to grab him by the collar in anger.
Prior to Jack being taken away by the medics Walker tells him about Wilson’s unwillingness to give up his fellow conspirators. Walker says she thinks she can “make him talk” but isn’t sure what to do from an ethical standpoint. Jack goes into a speech about the morality of torture, ultimately saying he knows the laws are the most important thing but that he could never live with himself if he didn’t try and obtain information to save people. He advises her to make a choice she can live with.
Olivia brings President Taylor and Henry together to tell them about her role in Hodges’ death. She says Kanin has agreed not to turn over his evidence unless Taylor gives the go-ahead. Taylor is outraged at Olivia’s actions but Henry wants his wife to destroy the recording and save Olivia. He goes on to say that Taylor’s job is the reason their son was killed and that she now has the chance to save their daughter. “So help me, destroy that recording and save what’s left of this family.” When Taylor leaves the room Henry tells Olivia that they will “figure this out.”
Chloe heads out of the field office as Janis prepares for Wilson’s transfer.
Taylor stares at some family photos.
Dr. Macer tells Jack his disease is at an advanced stage and that all she can do is give morphine to place him in a coma. Imam Gohar comes into the hospital room, having been called by Jack. Jack tells Gohar he is dying and apologizes for what he has done in his life. They pray together and Gohar asks for forgiveness. “It’s time,” Jack says.
Taylor returns to her husband and daughter. She apologizes, but says she has no choice but to honor her oath and have Olivia put into federal custody. After Pierce takes Olivia away Henry gives Taylor the cold shoulder. In the hall Taylor runs into Kanin and tells him she has now “lost everyone.” Kanin says “not everyone” and agrees to take back his letter of resignation. She tells him about Wilson and they get to work.
Wilson is taken to an interrogation room in the field office. Janis asks Walker to sign Wilson over to Woods. Walker tells Janis to leave. When she won’t, Walker forces Janis to handcuff herself to a nearby pole and stares at Wilson through the one-way mirror. “Larry would not have wanted this,” Janis says. Walker puts down her badge and walks into the room where Wilson is being held.
Kim arrives at Jack’s hospital room to find her father in the coma. Gohar tells Kim that Jack has “accepted what is happening.” Kim turns to Macer and says she wants to try the stem cell treatment, regardless of the risk. Kim goes to Jack’s bedside and grabs his hand. “I’m sorry daddy,” she says. “But I’m not ready to let you go.”
24 is one of the hottest shows for seven seasons already. It made the jump to the big screen, and it keeps rolling.
Yesterday an all new episode of 24 aired.
Here, filled with 24 spoilers for all of you…
Open with Cara updating Wilson that: the bio-weapon is being retrofitted for maximum dispersion, will be detonated at the Washington Center subway stop and should kill approximately 9,000 commuters.
Tony gives Jibraan an earpiece for communication and tells him to ride the Red Line all the way to Washington Center subway. Tony emphasizes that Hamid will be killed if he does not follow instructions. Tony watches as Jibraan enters the subway.
We see Cara put on a wig and glasses and place the weapon into a bag.
Jack questions the man who had been guarding Hamid. He prevents a medic from giving him morphine and presses directly on his neck wound until the guard tells him he has a phone number for Tony. Jack gives Chloe the number and has her run a trace as the man calls Tony with a bogus question. Tony’s phone is encrypted and Chloe is only able to determine Tony was in Adams Morgan. Jack sends hazmat teams to that area.
In the subway Jibraan takes out his earpiece and tries to explain his situation to an employee. She calls over a police officer. When Jibraan tells the man what’s happening, he hears only “put the earpiece back in.” When the earpiece is in Tony tells Jibraan if he attempts a stunt like that again his brother will die.
Pierce calls Olivia after realizing she’s not in the residence. He tells her they are investigating Hodges’ death and that there are 11 people who knew his schedule prior to the car bomb. She hangs up and talks to Martin, who tells her he authorized the murder despite her not transferring the funds. She is panicking and worried she’ll be caught. His advice is that she needs to send the murderer the money: “You do not want this man unhappy with you.”
Kim Bauer calls her husband Stephen with news that her flight has been delayed. He wonders if it should be viewed as a sign she should help her father. She insists Jack was adamant she not watch him die. Kim notices a shady man watching her from a distance. A woman “accidentally” bumps into her and the two exchange pleasantries.
While Jibraan rides the metro we see the disguised Cara leave the device in his car. She exits at the stop and radios Tony that the “package is in place.” She mentions it is set to go off after the train stops at Washington Center. Tony jumps behind the wheel of the van.
Chloe tells Jack she has found Tony just in front of his position. Jack forces Tony’s van off the street. As Jack pulls Tony out of the van Tony tries to smash an UMPC against the floor.
Chloe works on Tony’s damaged UMPC remotely. She doesn’t think anything can be recovered. Janis takes a shot and quickly figures how to find some stored data.
Jack sends the agents away and begins beating the ever-loving heck out of Tony. Saying he has nothing left to lose, Jack threatens to kill Tony. Tony says he feels the same way and Jack eventually lowers the weapon.
Janis sends Walker the UMPC info and they figure out the Washington Center stop must be the target. She grabs Jack and they take off for the location. Jack has Janis locate the signal Tony was using to communicate with Jibraan. They cut in and Tony tells Jibraan Hamid is safe but he has to locate the weapon. After all the passengers leave the train at Washington Center, Jibraan finds Cara’s bag and pulls out the weapon. It is counting down from 1:20. Jibraan manages to leave the subway with the bomb and hand it to Jack.
Jack takes the bomb into a hazmat truck and throws it into a secure section just as it explodes. Outside Jack nearly collapsing into Walker’s arms. She holds him and says “now you can finally rest.” Clearly she has never watched the show.
Kim sits next to the woman she bumped into and has her see if the man from earlier is staring at her. He is not, and we see him walk away with a phone to his ear. The call is to Jack and we learn the man is watching over Kim until she is safely on her plane.
Walker tells Jack about Hodges’ murder. Jack thinks this means people will be coming after Tony and they need to ramp-up their protection to get him into custody.
Cara walks from the scene and calls Wilson with the latest on Tony and the failed attack. Wilson tells her she needs to have Tony eliminated. She says it won’t be necessary, since Tony “won’t be in custody for long.”
Cut to Kim going to the bathroom. The man tailing her for Jack goes the men’s room and is strangled by the man who was supposedly the husband of Kim’s new friend.
Pierce asks Olivia where she was earlier. She says the events of the day overwhelmed her. When she leaves the room he calls Kanin and references an audio recording device that was installed in the Chief of Staff’s office. Pierce would like to access the records but needs Kanin’s thumb print to do so. Kanin said he will be at the White House in a half hour. We see Olivia wire the money to Hodges’ murderer.
Chloe sends a picture of Cara to Jack so he can have Jibraan confirm it was the woman who left the bomb on the subway.
The mysterious husband returns from the bathroom and uses coded language to tell the woman next to Kim that he took care of the man working for Jack. We see the webcam on his laptop is pointing directly at Kim.
Cara calls Jack and sends him a link to the video footage of Kim. She tells him they have killed his agent and will kill Kim if he doesn’t help Tony escape or if he tells anyone of the contact. Cara has him to put the call on an earpiece so she can listen to all of his conversations.
Tony is loaded into the back of a paddy wagon across from Walker. Jack hops in, telling her he “wants to see this through.” Cara tells Jack via earpiece that she will advise him how to help Tony escape and that if any agents (the camera pans to Walker) get in his way he must kill them “or your daughter will die.”
24 is one of the hottest shows for seven seasons already. It made the jump to the big screen, and it keeps rolling.
Yesterday an all new episode of 24 aired.
Here, filled with spoilers for all of you…
Jack tells Tony over radio that President Taylor called off the air strike because she didn’t trust the intel. Tony spots a fuel truck filled with RP-7 (apparently used only in surface-to-surface missiles) pull up the bunker and tells Jack he thinks this is the real reason the strike was cancelled. Jack suggest Tony use his remaining C4 to blow up the weapons bunker.
Woods tells Taylor the joint chiefs are getting restless over her decision to cancel the strike. When he asks for the next step she tells him Hodges is coming to the White House for a meeting. Jack and Walker call the Oval Office and Jack reveals he knows the real reason Taylor canceled the air strike. She admits Hodges told her he has 13 missles pointed at U.S. cities and that she plans to talk him down during their meeting. When Jack tells her of Tony’s potentially being able to destroy the missiles, Taylor tells him only that she knows he “will do what you think is right.”
Jack tells Walker Taylor is unable to formally give authority but that she actually wants them to go in.
Hodges and Seaton arrive at the White House.
Walker calls Moss and tells him Jack’s feeling on the president’s non-order order. Moss okays the plan.
Jack calls Tony and tells him everything is a go, but adds that Tony must carry out the mission discreetly. Hodges’ men are under orders to launch the missiles if they detect any government breach.
We see that security around the missiles is being increased. Stokes calls Chapman and tells him the tanks are fueled and ready. When Stokes hangs up Tony appears with a gun to the head of the truck driver. Tony tells Stokes to take him down to the fuel tanks.
Hodges and Seaton sit with Taylor in the Oval Office. Hodges denies working with Juma and asks that Starkwood be involved in domestic and foreign policy as a fifth branch of the military.
Tony plants his explosives and leaves the tank area with Stokes. The driver sneaks up from behind and hits Tony in the head, knocking his detonator into a grate and allowing Stokes to punch a breach code into a nearby panel.
Chapman sees the alert and begins the launch sequence. Chapman enters the launch codes but Tony is able to grab his detonator and destroy the missiles before they launch. Moss and his men move in.
While considering Hodges’ offer, Woods pulls Taylor out of the room to tell her the bio-weapon facility was destroyed.
A group of Secret Service agents return to the Oval Office with Taylor and Hodges is placed under arrest. He warns Taylor that he is only “a small cog in a very big machine.”
Jack speaks with Taylor about the work Tony did at Starkwood. During the conversation he begins to lose his train of through, obviously experiencing symptoms from the pathogen.
Moss has secured the weapons facility and Tony is unharmed. Walker tells Moss she must go because Kim Bauer has arrived. Moss tells Tony Kim is there to help Jack with an experimental treatment. Moss says he must take take Tony into custody but orders his handcuffs removed. “I’m ready to pay for what I’ve done,” Tony says. (Uh-oh)
Dr. Macer tells Jack the memory loss makes sense but that the disease is moving faster than she expected. He tells Macer he feels like “I’m losing some part of myself.” Macer says hallucinations could be part of the disease.
In the hallway Moss tells Jack Kim has arrived. Furious, Jack yanks her into a side room. Jack tells her he was prepared to accept his death but that having Kim there was the “one thing that will make this unbearable.” She reveals that Kim was at the Senate hearing and had actually been trying to contact him all day.
Jack and Kim have a tearful reunion in the field office lobby. They both have have missed each other and each apologizes for making mistakes. Kim asks why Jack doesn’t want her to try and help. He says there would be a small risk to her. The pain of having her watch him die isn’t worth the small chance of saving his life. Jack begins to have more symptoms and tells her to leave.
Near one of the Starkwood gates a Starkwood operative shoots an FBI agent in his car. Another agent shows up to disarm the operative and finds a canister of the bio-weapon in his bag. The agent calls Moss and tells him the operative was trying to smuggle the weapon out in the dead agent’s vehicle. The operative gets the jump on the second agent while he is speaking with Moss and kills him as well. The operative jumps in the car and reverses out of the area. Moss contacts Walker, tells her to close down all the access roads and gets in the helicopter.
Janis helps Moss locate the FBI vehicle using its GPS. The helicopter finds the operative and lands when he leaves on foot. The operative shoots and kills the helicopter pilot and Moss and Tony run out of the copter. The operative shoots Moss with a shotgun and Tony drops to Moss’ side. Moss frantically warns Tony that the operative is coming up from behind him but Tony simply waves his hand and (oh lord!) the operative lowers his gun. Tony says “I’m sorry Larry” and proceeds to suffocate Moss to death with his hand. The operative gives Tony the weapon and asks how they are going to get out of there. Tony tells the operative to hide and says he will wait at the scene until the FBI arrives.
24 is one of the hottest shows for seven seasons already. It made the jump to the big screen, and it keeps rolling.
Yesterday an all new episode of 24 aired.
Here, filled with spoilers for all of you…
Open with the standoff in Starkwood’s compound. With three platoons already surrounding the FBI, several more Humvees show up, one of which contains Hodges. A fired-up Hodges tells Moss he has five minutes to leave and demands the return of Seaton.
At the field office Jack suggests contacting Douglas Knowles, a member of the Starkwood board who had secretly been assisting Senator Mayer’s investigation. Jack calls Knowles and tells him Quinn was the one who killed Mayer. Knowles thinks he may know where the weapon is located.
Hodges sends Stokes to position their men for an attack. Jack tells Moss to obey Hodges but to somehow use a diversion to leave Tony behind to work with Knowles. Moss ends up punching Seaton while walking him over to Stokes and Tony is able to sneak in behind the Starkwood perimeter. Tony meets up with Knowles who wants to take them to the compound’s East perimeter.
Back in the field office Jack seems to be showing symptoms of the pathogen.
Jack updates President Taylor with Hodges’ recent actions. He tells her he is confident they will find the weapon and that a surgical air strike will be able destroy it. Taylor mentions Jack’s exposure to the weapon and thank him for his service.
Olivia leaves the room and fields a phone call from Dellao, the TV reporter to which she had previously leaked a story. When she refuses to immediately confirm what he has heard about the weapon he threatens to reveal her role in forcing out Kanin. She agrees to meet in his hotel.
Using infrared satellite images at the field office Jack points Tony and Knowles to the likely building where the weapon is being stored. While Janis works on the code for the door, a Starkwood vehicle approaches. Knowles decides to run interference and walks up to the Humvee. Knowles feigns indignation at being stopped to distract the guard while Tony gets into the building. Walker tells Tony he must get a visual on the weapon canisters before the president will authorize an attack. Jack falls to the ground and starts having a sezure.
The guard who stopped Knowles calls Hodges that tells him Knowles gave only the excuse he “was walking.” Hodges orders him to take Knowles to his office and watch him closely. Hodges is told the work they being done on the weapon will be done in a half hour.
Olivia convinces Pierce to wait in the hallway as she goes to meet with Dellao. She reveals what is happening with Starkwood and its weapon and that her mother has ordered an air strike. She impresses upon him that he cannot run the story because the president must have the element of surprise for the strike. Dellao tells her he needs to be “convinced” not to run the story and begins kissing her. Resistant at first, Olivia goes along.
Dr. Macer gives Jack drugs to control his shaking. She mentions that a local university has been doing experimental work with stem cells from immediate family members that could provide a course of treatment for the disease. Macer brings up Jack’s daughter but he immediately dismisses the idea. Walker follows him out of the room and questions why he won’t give his daughter the opportunity to help him. “I’m the one who’s dying, Jack says. “It’s my choice.”
Sent to make sure Knowles wasn’t with anyone, a Starkwood security detail heads towards Tony’s location. Tony quickly incapacitates two of them and puts on one of their uniforms. He goes into an elevator and ends up next to Chapman, Hodges’ weapons expert. Tony says he’s part of newer security detail and Chapman leaves without incident. Tony gets a picture of the canisters and Jack confirms it is the bio-weapon. They pass along the information to the military. Tony sees that the canisters are on the move to a “delivery system.”
Hodges goes to meet with Knowles. After Knowles questions him about having a WMD, Hodges gives a speech about Starkwood being investigated by the government after doing the country’s dirty work for many years. Hodges says “I kept this country strong. I kept this country safe. And I will not be persecuted for that.” Hodges then hits Knowles over the head repeatedly with a glass bottles and flips him over the railing down the floor below. While Hodges wipes blood from his shirt Seaton calls to say several F-18s are on their way. Hodges has him call the president.
Post-coitus Dellao tells Olivia that he will, in fact, run the story. Despite her pleading that it will cost lives, he is going to go with the story because it will be good for his career. Olivia then shows him she taped their sex and threatens to show the video to everyone, including his wife, if he runs the story or tries to blackmail her again. Olivia’s phone rings with President Taylor who tells he the air strike is about to begin.
In the Situation Room Taylor is told the heat of the missiles should destroy the pathogens and prevent any spread of the weapon after its destruction.
Upon hearing the weapon is ready Hodges tells Champman and Seaton that “this is a historic day for Starkwood.”
Minutes before the fighters will reach the target, Taylor is told Starkwood will be aware of their presence via radar. She gets word Hodges is on the line and he wants to speak with her privately on a proprietary line in an adjacent rom.
Hodges tells Taylor that if she does not call off the fighters he will fire three Python-5 misses loaded with the bio-weapon at cities on the Eastern seabord. He shows her a video of the missiles, adding that he would like a sit-down in the Oval Office within the hour. He gives her 30 seconds to decide.
After several anxious seconds Taylor runs to the Sit Room and orders the attack aborted.
This season finale 2009 is going to be rough for many shows…
There are a lot of deaths in season finales written, and there´s going to be many characters written off for next season.
Let´s review a little:
One Death is planned in this show, and according to Executive Producer Josh Schwartz, it´s going to be shocking.
The obvious candidates are terminally ill Molly (Sarah Lafleur) or barely-visible Christina (the exiting Ashley Jensen). Which means it’s probably neither. So… who´s dying on Ugly Betty season finale?
It’s not Benson (Mariska Hargitay) or Stabler (Chris Meloni). Beyond that, no one’s safe.
It’s 24. It’d probably be easier if I told you how many people aren’t dying.
A cop killer targets a member of the team and “forever changes” the show, teases exec producer Peter M. Lenkov.
One of the deceased is a long-running character. The other isn’t. One is a man. The other…
Two of the deaths will stick. A third won’t.
A major male character.
It’s someone close to Sam and Dean.
One is major, the other major-ish. (Desmond and Juliet? perhaps? or that makes it two major?)
The victim will be someone close to one of the main characters… well… besides all those dead people talking.
As the series reaches its climax, Michael must choose whether to save the love of his life (Sara) or his bro (Linc). Maybe he chooses neither?
As we already said it. Izzie Stevens is dying.
It´s one of the major characters, and it´ll be a shocker. Front runners are Taub, Chase and Foreman to die on House MD.
24 is one of the hottest shows for seven seasons already. It made the jump to the big screen, and it keeps rolling.
Yesterday an all new episode of 24 aired.
Here, filled with spoilers for all of you…
24 is one of the hottest shows for seven seasons already. It made the jump to the big screen, and it keeps rolling.
Yesterday an all new episode of 24 aired.
Here, filled with spoilers for all of you…