The main event last night was obviously the American Music Awards return of Jack Bauer, and overall it’s a success for Fox ! Sure, if the net won the night it was also thanks to a little football overrun with 17.86 million viewers (6.5 on the demo) at 7.00, but that doesn’t mean Jack failed to come back in great shape — rating-wise at least.
Despite being off the air for a year and a half, 24 scored a very nice 12.60 million viewers and 4.3 on the demo during its first half hour, and overall averaged 12.04 million viewers (4.0 on the demo). While that’s below last season average (13 million, 5.0 on the demo) that remains much better that said season finale (10.2 million, 3.7 on the demo), and needless to say once the show is actually back, it should be doing very well — especially with House as lead-in.
(S07E00) Remember last season? The writers’ strike, and how only 8 episodes of the new season of 24 were done, thus resulting in Fox having to delay the return of Jack Bauer for quite some time ? Last season was one season without any Jack Bauer at all, and we’ve been waiting 18 months to see him back. Adding to that how the sixth season of the show was by far the worst, and needless to say, we’ve really been waiting for Jack’s Redemption !
Waiting for January and the new season, Fox knew we couldn’t wait anymore and they gave us this two-hour movie, to help us wait. This was a prelude to next season, to introduce us what Jack did after the end of last season and where he was headed for the next, it was to get us ready for a new day, it was to forget about last season and it was to remind us how much we missed Jack kicking some ass !
* Of course, tonight is all about Jack Bauer. It’s not before January 11th that his new day will begin, but it’s been way too long since we last heard of him, so tonight he’s finally back will a little prelude in a two-hour TV movie. Let’s hope things will be better than last season… for us that is, of course.
* At 8.00 on ABC it’s a special night with the American Music Awards
* And of course, Fox has the famous 24: Redemption
* While on Showtime there’s a new Brotherhood
* At 9.00 on CBS there’s a new Cold Case
* While HBO has the season finale of True Blood
* And Showtime a new episode of Dexter
* At 10.00 on CBS there’s a new episode of The Unit
* On HBO it’s another season finale, the one of Entourage
* While on Showtime there’s a new Californication
* And don’t forget at 11.00 on HBO a brand new episode of the always hilarious The Life & Times Of Tim
Fox’s plans for 2009 have now made public, and there are two things that are really worth nothing, two changes that took place compared to the original plans the Network had, two changes actually quite linked to each other : Originally, Bones was set to move on Fridays.
No really, it was, those idiots at Fox keep moving it around and treat the show like it wasn’t the little awesome thing it is, pulling 10 million viewers each week. And maybe that’s why they change their minds, when realizing that even without House near-by, the show was still a hit. That’s for the good news, now the bad news comes from who’s taking over that infamous death slot.
No other than Joss Whedon’s latest sci-fi creation, Dollhouse, is set to air on Fridays, premiering Friday, January 13th. No really. I’ll give you a minute to scream away as those horrible flashbacks and memories of Firefly come to mind…
With the strike in the middle of last season, it’s been an awfully long time since we’ve seen Jack Bauer on our screens, which is even more sad looking bad at how horrible last season was… But don’t worry, he’s coming back to save us all one more time !
This very month, on Sunday, November 23rd at 8.00 on Fox we have the two-hour movie, 24: Redemption, to get all back in the mood. And the new season of 24 premieres on Sunday, January 11th at 8.00 when we’ll have the first two hours of Jack’s seventh day, followed the very next day, Monday, January 12th at 8.00 with the next two hours. After that, the series will move to its regular time slot, Mondays at 9.00, starting January 19th.
In the mean time, here’s the trailer of the movie to get you on edge :
Funny thing: when I learned that two Fox series that wouldn’t be on the air until 2009 were shutting down production, I did not react the same to that news at all.
It looks like it’s pretty much the same thing going on in either case : either show won’t be on the air for months, each were ahead of production and thus had the luxury of being able to shut down production, in both case the request came from the creative minds behind the show who asked more time to work on scripts, and given said circumstances the network was happy to oblige.
And yet, to me, for one show it felt like this could be a good thing, while for the other one I couldn’t help but taking it as a bad sign of things to come… It might be me, and the way I feel for both series, but in all honesty I think there is, actually, somewhat of a huge difference in the two situations the shows are in.
In their latest issue, which can be picked up on newsstands now, TV Guide does something everybody loves to do : a top 10 list. This time they went ahead to list not the top10 best series, but the best pilots.
As with any such list, not everyone has the same taste and not everyone agrees on which pilots were the best ones. Plus, as always, we tend to favor recent ones because, well, they’re more recent. But even then, there are some serious misses on TV Guide selection, so I thought I would list a few names I feel should have been included on such a list, as well as inviting you to list which were, to you, the top 10 best pilots TV had to offer.
Every network is trying to get some buzz about their shows and people talk about what’s on their fall schedule, and here’s the latest one from Fox, and I gotta say I like it! I don’t know, I guess I now really like what’s coming out of this network I once hated more than any other…
Anyhow, latest in their “It’s so…” campaign, they had the cast of all their hit shows do some pretty cool photo shoot, So Fresh, and after the pictures here’s a nice little video of the shooting :
By fred | November 24, 2008 
The main event last night was obviously the American Music Awards return of Jack Bauer, and overall it’s a success for Fox ! Sure, if the net won the night it was also thanks to a little football overrun with 17.86 million viewers (6.5 on the demo) at 7.00, but that doesn’t mean Jack failed to come back in great shape — rating-wise at least.
(S07E00) Remember last season? The writers’ strike, and how only 8 episodes of the new season of 24 were done, thus resulting in Fox having to delay the return of Jack Bauer for quite some time ? Last season was one season without any Jack Bauer at all, and we’ve been waiting 18 months to see him back. Adding to that how the sixth season of the show was by far the worst, and needless to say, we’ve really been waiting for Jack’s Redemption !
Fox’s plans for 2009 have now made public, and there are two things that are really worth nothing, two changes that took place compared to the original plans the Network had, two changes actually quite linked to each other : Originally, Bones was set to move on Fridays.
Funny thing: when I learned that two Fox series that wouldn’t be on the air until 2009 were shutting down production, I did not react the same to that news at all.
In their latest issue, which can be picked up on newsstands now, TV Guide does something everybody loves to do : a top 10 list. This time they went ahead to list not the top10 best series, but the best pilots.
