The latest potential short-timer to join the cast is poor Ricky Schroder, who's on the team as Mike Doyle, Jack's man in the field. We say "poor Ricky" because even though he's 36 years old, married with four kids, an accomplished film director and mature actor who made his bones on NYPD Blue, people still refuse to call him "Rick," as he and his agents have requested. Once a child sitcom star, always a child sitcom star...
There's already talk that Mr. Schroder could possibly be replacing Kiefer Sutherland, whose Jack Bauer might not make it to the Seventh Day. But for now, that's only talk-- and Ricky--er, Rick, will have to fight for airtime unless there's a nice mass killing in the two-hour season premiere.
Among the co-stars who've signed up so far...
Peter MacNicol... Regina King... DB Woodside... James Cromwell... Chad Lowe... Powers Boothe... David Hunt... Kal Penn... Jean Smart... William Devane (isn't his character dead?)... and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Oh yeah, and Kiefer Sutherland.
The return of 24 will unspool over a two-night television "event," with two hours on January 14th followed by another two hours the following night. That's not an event, that's a TiVo.
Comments (4)
No, it's not a Tivo. It's a TVgasm!
1 of 4 | Posted by B-Side
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Posted on December 4, 2006 11:00 PM
Kiefer signed for a 3 year deal with 24 along with at least 1 movie. Bauer isn't dying any time soon.
2 of 4 | Posted by tikilights
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Posted on December 5, 2006 1:00 AM
and william devane's Heller character survived the drive off the cliff into the lake.
shouldn't these things be known already if the show was actually watched?
3 of 4 | Posted by tikilights
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Posted on December 5, 2006 1:15 PM
No one puts Baby in a corner and no one....I mean NO ONE....replaces Jack Bauer! Screw the Christmas countdown, is it January 14th yet?!
4 of 4 | Posted by RealityTV4Me
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Posted on December 5, 2006 1:34 PM