This is a bit late in getting up thanks to this morning’s server outage, but better later than never……
There were times during last night’s episode of 24 when I thought I was in the middle of a James Bond movie. It wasn’t so much the plot, and, no, Jack did not stop by an L.A. night spot to order a shaken-but-not-stirred Martini while hitting on the resident buxom blonde. It was the music. It was most prevalent during the scenes when Bauer and Wayne Palmer were breaking into the home of bank President with access to a safe desposit box holding evidence implicating the no-longer-such-a-weenie President Logan in the day’s events. I don’t know if this was a deliberate homage on the part of 24’s producers to the Bond series, but it certaintly seemed like it.
On the whole, the episode itself raised more questions than it answed. Just what are President Logan’s motives ? Dictatorship ? Self-aggrandizement ? Self-preservation ? For the moment, my money is on the latter two as the most likely motives. In the end, I believe it will turn out that Logan engineered, or participated in the nerve gas conspiracy as a means of enhancing American power abroad and, more importantly, his own prestige as President (remember, after all, that he only became President because of the death (though never really confirmed) of President Keeler on Day 4), when that conspiracy spiraled out of control he became obsessed, primarily, with covering up any evidence of his own involvement in a conspiracy that very nearly resulted in the death of 200,000 Americans. The question, though, is who else might be involved.
That question will only be answered as the final seconds tick off the clock on Day 5, but there is one thing that is certain, Jack Bauer will live to fight another day.
LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) — “24″ star Kiefer Sutherland has inked a multifaceted deal with 20th Century Fox Television. The rich pact, which is set to begin in June, calls for the actor to continue on the hit Fox drama for three more years and includes a two-year development deal for Sutherland’s soon-to-be-launched production banner.
Details on the deal were sketchy, but sources pegged the acting portion alone at more than $40 million for the three seasons, which could make Sutherland the highest-paid actor in a drama series.
While the deal with Sutherland locks him in for three additional years beyond the current fifth season of “24,” the 20th TV/Imagine TV-produced show so far has been picked up for one additional season.
Under the pact, Sutherland also will be elevated from a co-executive producer to executive producer on “24″ next season alongside Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran, Howard Gordon and Evan Katz.
More than once, 24’s producers have said that Jack’s death will be the end of the series. Thankfully, it looks like that’s still a long way off.
As usual, Rick Moran has a great summary of last night’s episode.
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