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‘24‘ premiere racks up record numbers (The West Wing - record low ratings)
Ely Times & County ^ | 1/17/06 | Cynthia Littleton

Posted on 01/17/2006 2:31:20 PM PST by LdSentinal

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To: travlnmn41
Sounds like they need to come up with one more show to pave the way for Queen Hillary.

There was a running joke that staff members from the office of the junior senator of Virginia were hoping the show would be a hit so the name of the main character would be well known and catch on in popularity.

The junior senator from Virginia is Senator Allen.

The name of the president on the show is.......President Allen.

41 posted on 01/17/2006 3:17:09 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: LdSentinal

24 is the best TV show ever made. And I was a rabid X-Files fan, so when you trump X-Files you've done something.

MM


42 posted on 01/17/2006 3:18:14 PM PST by MississippiMan (Behold now behemoth...he moves his tail like a cedar. Job 40:17)
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To: InvisibleChurch
It's a cliff-hanger TV show which is entirely about action. The central character is a counter-terrorist agent who will do what he has to to protect America and those he cares about.

It's easily the most addicting TV show I have ever seen.

43 posted on 01/17/2006 3:20:24 PM PST by jude24 ("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I have only watched Fox and HGTV for years.........this show caught my attention. They were running back to back shows from the first season on one of the networks and now I am hooked. You have to catch it. Worth your while.


44 posted on 01/17/2006 3:21:35 PM PST by tioga (Speaking out from the god-forsaken frozen tundra of the Hildebeast.)
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To: LdSentinal

Jack Bauer '08!!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


45 posted on 01/17/2006 3:21:40 PM PST by bray (President Bush Protects America. The Rats Protect Terrorists.)
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To: LdSentinal
Jack Bauer and Kirk


46 posted on 01/17/2006 3:26:27 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: surelyclintonsbaddream

Does the DVD show the episodes seamlessly...or do they run those summaries before each episode (hour)?


47 posted on 01/17/2006 3:27:55 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: InvisibleChurch

24 is great. Try watching it a few weeks.

It was the first to go back to the old time serial movies. Many will remember the Saturday movie serial with the cliff-hanger leaving you wondering what will happen until the next Saturday. Wonderful fun.

It is also well done, moves fast, has great technology, and mainly the good guys go after the threat and Jack will fight the great battle for us. It is clean, no bad language - just a quality show that leaves you glued to the set for that hour.

In fact, the best rental movies I ever got were a prior season 24 series of tapes. So great to watch straight through four episodes and then making the trip to get the next four for the next night. This is the best way to watch it - but who can wait a whole year for the season?

24 is the fastest hour of TV watching.


48 posted on 01/17/2006 3:29:55 PM PST by ClancyJ (The New York Times is Aiding and Abetting the Enemy - They are Traitors and Put Our Families at Risk)
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To: frankjr

Oh, yeah, get your hands on them. Quite a lot of action.


49 posted on 01/17/2006 3:30:39 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ClancyJ

"It is clean, no bad language - just a quality show that leaves you glued to the set for that hour. "

This is probably the clincher. No illicit affairs, explicit language to deal with, although some entanglements lead to consequences. Just good old-fashioned action.


50 posted on 01/17/2006 3:34:38 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: InvisibleChurch

So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure?



I missed the original episodes and I really hate getting in on these things after they have begun. Finally, after being encouraged by my brother as to what I was missing, I decided to rent Season 1. I finished Season 1 in 4 days. (I was on vacation but this was still crazy). I raced back to the video store and rented Season 2. I'm currently watching Season 3 and I have the new season set up to record on DVR. Meanwhile I have to get and finish Season 4. Then I'll watch the recorded new season and be caught up. All of this just since Christmas. Get the picture? It's a disease, I tell ya.

If you don't want to be hooked, don't watch an episode.

Long live Jack Bauer.


51 posted on 01/17/2006 3:34:43 PM PST by GOP_Proud ("Just like butt-ahh"... Toolbelt Diva)
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To: Ramcat

It was Chase's newborn baby (abadoned by its mother?) and then Kim had to make a decision whether to stay with him and become an instant mother. She did, but they never said anymore about them, except that they're "living in the valley."


52 posted on 01/17/2006 3:34:44 PM PST by lainie
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To: Ramcat
Chloe used to drive me nuts in the first series.

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She was supposed to, that's how they wrote her.

53 posted on 01/17/2006 3:36:52 PM PST by wtc911 (see my profile for how to contribute to a pentagon heroes fund)
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To: DCPatriot

Summaries, but you can fast foward.


54 posted on 01/17/2006 3:38:54 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: GOP_Proud

Whatcha gonna do..Jack. That's my favorite line from any season :)

55 posted on 01/17/2006 3:39:28 PM PST by lainie
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To: rabidralph
Chloe is a close second. She was great in the Monday episode--snapping and scowling.

When Chloe double tapped that assassin in that oil field I knew she was my kind of girl

56 posted on 01/17/2006 3:39:37 PM PST by Rooivalk
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To: lainie

I have seen on IMDB that she is back for a few episodes this season, airing in February.


57 posted on 01/17/2006 3:40:07 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Rooivalk

Oh come on, when she got out of bed & told the guy to get out of her bed, leave. Such a hard nose.


58 posted on 01/17/2006 3:41:06 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: frankjr

I don't get it. I watched the first few years on DVD's from Netflix but found it unbearably boring after that. It's so predictable or was with the original characters. Stupid daughter, strange girlfriends etc. Maybe I'll have to try again.


59 posted on 01/17/2006 3:42:21 PM PST by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: maxter

You mean West Wing is still on the air??? It went totally in the toilet with the personal leaning writing of Lawrence O'Donnell and we tuned out and tuned in to Homemakeover.


60 posted on 01/17/2006 3:44:56 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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