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  • ‘LOTR’s Sean Astin joins ’24’ for its fifth season

    MUMBAI: The clock has already started ticking for the fifth season of US broadcaster Fox’s show 24. The season kicks off in January and will see Sean Astin The Lord of the Rings, Jean Smart Garden State and Connie Britton Friday Night Lights joining the cast.
     
     

    In India the show airs on action orinted AXN and stars Kiefer Sutherland as counter terrorism agent Jack Bauer. The title refers to each hour in his life. In the fourth season he and a team of agents were able to prevent a criminal mastermind from detonating a nuclear bomb just minutes before it would have killed millions of people and changed the world forever.
     
     

    Season five picks up 18 months later as national security is brutally breached and the clock begins to tick again. A presumably dead Jack Bauer is actually living a new life with Connie Britton) and her son. Panicky US President Logan is running the US. Smart plays First Lady Martha Logan.
     

  • ‘Six Feet Under’ will rest in peace

    ‘Six Feet Under’ will rest in peace

    MUMBAI: HBO is preparing to give a quiet burial to its critically acclaimed black comedy Six Feet Under.

    The US cable channel has stated that the upcoming fifth season will be its last. In India the show airs on Zee English and deals with a dysfunctional family who run a funeral home.

    Reports indicate that series creator Alan Ball recently told HBO executives that he felt the show would have run out of creative steam by the end of the upcoming 12-episode season.

    The show stars Peter Krause, Rachel Griffiths, Lauren Ambrose and Frances Conroy. It has been recognised at several award shows including the Golden Globes and the Emmies.

    Production on the fifth season will start on 16 November. However HBO has not decided when the show will air.

    Ball was quoted in a Reuters report saying, “Working on Six Feet Under has been enormously fulfilling creatively, but if the show is about anything, it’s about the fact that everything comes to an end. I will miss working with such enormously talented writers, cast, staff and crew and I’ll always be grateful to HBO for allowing and encouraging us to tell the story we set out to tell in a challenging and uncompromising way.”

  • CBS running ‘The Amazing Race’ for fifth time

    CBS running ‘The Amazing Race’ for fifth time

    MUMBAI: A few days ago, Viacom-owned broadcaster CBS kicked off the fifth season of its reality show The Amazing Race , which airs in India on AXN.

    The series shows teams racing around the world for a $1 million prize. There are 11 teams, each comprising two people who have a pre-existing relationship with each other. A pair of twins will make up one team. Their journey around the world lasts about 30 days. At every destination, each couple will have to compete in a series of challenges – some mental and some physical.

    In fact, in an earlier edition of the show, the teams had passed through India.

    Only after they complete allocated tasks, will the team know their next destination. Couples who are farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses. The first team to arrive at the final destination wins $1 million.