Kiefer Sutherland's Return To Television Gets Cautious Praise

Kiefer Sutherland can't have felt anything but pressure as his first major TV role since 10 phenomenal years spent on '24' aired for the first time last night (26 January 2012).
Fans and critics were certainly eager to see how the Canadian actor was going to follow up what has come to be known as one of the iconic TV characters of the 21st century in secret agent Jack Bauer.
'Touch,' which sees Sutherland playing a single father of a mute son who sees things other cannot, aired last night for the first time - and the answer to whether he's managed to follow up what may be career defining role successfully?
A cautious yes, according to the critics.
Newsday was effusive in its praise, saying the program was "A bit melodramatic, a bit manipulative, Touch is still one of the best pilots of the 2011-12 season to date," and others were similar praiseworthy though understandably a little more cautious given it was the pilot episode.
"It's Mr. Sutherland's portrayal of the father--unyielding in his effort to break through to his mute child and grasp what he's trying to say with his numbers--that is the heart of this story, the power likely to sustain this promising enterprise," said the Wall Street Journal, whilst
TV Guide said "[Touch is] emotionally compelling but wildly fantastical and undeniably manipulative."Not all were enthused though, The New York Times commented "The 11-year-old boy at the center of the story has never spoken and is also the show's narrator.
It's a perfectly acceptable device, if not a particularly interesting one in this case," whilst the Los Angeles Times weren't fans at all, stating "Ironically, given a show that so clearly wants to touch its audience--from that weighty one-word title on down--we have met, apart from Martin, hardly a single character who incorporates more than the hint of an actual person.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

To Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity))

)1. Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.)
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice!)
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, ask If They Want Fries with that.)
4. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.)
5. In the Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write For Marijuana')
6. With a serious face Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat.)
7. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go'.)
8. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won! I Won!')
9. When Leaving the Zoo, Start Running towards the Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives! They're Loose!')
10. Tell Your Children Over Dinner, 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Kiefer Sutherland Interview

Emmanuel Itier: How do you feel about the character you play
Kiefer: I think I’d root for him as well, and I think people would like to see him at least have the option to have a good life.
EI: How did you feel about these moral issues being discussed more than ever in the show
Kiefer: I think that’s the whole point of theater and the whole point of writing — to create discussion in movies and television…all mediums of entertainment.
EI: How do you imagine you’re going to feel when you don’t have Jack Bauer to play every day? Is it going to be freeing, or is it going to be a real loss?
Kiefer: I think it’s going to be very complicated. Whether this is our last season, whether next season is going to be our last season, we certainly know we’re on the shorter end of the stick than on the longer one.
EI: Do you ever regret the way you play Jack Bauer?
Kiefer: Absolutely no regret. I don’t necessarily agree all the time. I think Jack Bauer, as a character, has been politicized, and I think he’s been politicized by both the left and the right.
EI: Is this the last season for you? Will you remain as a distributor?
Kiefer: I don’t know with regards to the last season or anything — I really don’t. It is the last season that I’ve been contracted to do 24, but I really don’t know.
EI: Do you think 24 can continue without Jack?
Kiefer: I always felt that, yeah. The idea that I would ever think that I’m the only actor… The star of the show is format and the idea.
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Monday, August 3, 2009

Vampires: Vote for the Hottest Male Bloodsucker!


In honor of EW’s 20 Greatest Vampires of All Time cover hitting stands today, and it being a Friday, EW.com has unearthed its list of the Hottest Vampires of All Time. (Meaning, there is not 100 percent overlap between our picks, folks.) Click here for the gallery of bloodsucking babes, and here for the bloodthirsty blokes. As always, we’re letting you vote to determine the Ultimate in each category. Those current results, and the reigning champs in our other polls (which are still open) after the jump.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20153312_20153316_20294995,00.html

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Comic-Con Backstage: Kiefer Sutherland discusses the possible end of '24'

Jack Bauer will return for another Day of "24" starting next January on FOX. That means that once again, Jack has cheated death. Even if we establish, though, that Jack Bauer is essentially a television immortal, time may still be running out for Kiefer Sutherland's gun-toting alter-ego.

"I don't know with regards to 'The Last Season' or anything," Sutherland told reporters backstage after the "24" Comic-Con panel on Friday (July 24). "I really don't. It is the last season that I've been contracted to do '24,' but I really don't know. We're so focused on making Season Eight. But obviously the requirements would be that the writers felt that they could really bang it out. If Howard [Gordon] came to me and say, 'The way I saw those last scenes play, I have an idea for Season Nine that would be unbelievable,' I would have to listen to him for that. I think we're all very away of wanting to protect what we believe is a very strong and important legacy that is '24.' All of those things. Again, the choices to do or not to do it have nothing to do with my contract, have everything to do with whether or not an audience still wants to watch it and cares and whether or not we feel we have something to offer."

"My sense, and I think today kind of confirms it, I think fans kinda root for Jack and I think I kinda root for him as well and I think people would like to see him at least have the option to have a good life," Sutherland said. "We've stripped a lot of those components away over the years, by virtue of killing everybody, that whether he wants to live or die seemed to become kind of innocuous, like 'Who cares?' There was nothing really to live for. So what we did for this season is to really try to create something that would make Jack want to live. We started off with just this relationship between he and his daughter and his granddaughter and her husband and that family, because his family was literally torn apart after Season One."

Sutherland added, "For me as an actor and Jack as a character, the desire for Season Eight is to protect all of the things that would make living worthwhile and also live within the context of what he morally accept himself doing or not doing."

How will Sutherland react to the end of his run as Jack Bauer, whether it comes after next season or several years down the road?

"I think it's gonna be very complicated," he said." Whether this is our last season or next season's our last season, we certainly know we're on the shorter end of the stick than the longer one."

He continued, "In Season One and Season Two, it's such a shock to your body, the workload, that you can't wait for it to be done. And somewhere and somehow in the groove of everything, you start to get into a rhythm of it and you find ways to make it easier for yourself... I know for a fact that it's not gonna be 'Wahoo!' It's gonna be a combination of a lot of things and it's not gonna be easy."

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2009-7-25-comic-con-backstage-kiefer-sutherland-discusses-the-possible-end-of-24

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Who wants to be a foreign leader on '24?'





The opening of 24's eighth season centers on a U.N. peace conference where President Taylor (Cherry Jones) and the president of Iran (Anil Kapoor, best known to U.S. viewers as the game-show host in Slumdog Millionaire) have prominent roles.

At a Comic-Con presentation, Kiefer Sutherland, who plays super agent Jack Bauer, said the plot is not unrealistic.
"This season is more grounded in what possibly could happen. There's a sense of reality that almost brings it back to Season 1," said Sutherland, who added that serious planning on a 24 film wouldn't start until the series approaches its end.

The peace conference is a noble goal, Sutherland said, but "when opportunities present themselves, there are also threats."

That threat would be a possible assassination attempt against the Iranian president, which of course draws a "retired" Jack Bauer in.

A short clip revealed that CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) back after having been disbanded and it's a much glitzier place, all chrome and glass and cool lights.
When we last left Jack, he was on the verge of dying from an airborne toxin, his only chance at survival reviving the help of his daughter Kim.

"He did make it through. You'll see a little later how," executive producer Howard Gordon said.
Whatever happened worked well, because Jack will show a new feeling: happiness, largely due to being with his daughter and granddaughter, executive producer Manny Coto said.

Besides Kapoor, Freddie Prinze Jr. joins the cast as CTU agent and ex-Marine Cole Ortiz and Katee Sackhoff plays his fiancee, Dana Walsh, a CTU data analyst. Mary Lynn Rajskub is back as cranky, brilliant Chloe, although she's a bit behind the learning curve because she's been away taking care of her son. After a few episodes, Sackhoff, a veteran of Battlestar Galactica battles, said she told the writers she needed a gun. "I was starting to feel naked," she said.

The clip showed an injured man telling Jack of a possible assassination plot and Prinze, Sackhoff and Rajskub in the dark and shiny CTU.

After the clip, Sutherland offered solace to any worried fans. "Don’t be alarmed. We do still blow shit up."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/livefrom/2009/07/who-wants-to-be-a-foreign-leader-on-24.html?csp=34

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

D.A. Rejects Sutherland Headbutt Case

Posted Jul 21st 2009 5:26PM by TMZ Staff
Kiefer Sutherland is officially off the hook for that whole headbutting incident in NYC
back in May ...
because it amounted to a bunch of nothing.
The Manhattan D.A. has just rejected the case against the "24" star
and we're told it's all because officials determined it was a petty matter that did not rise to the level of criminal conduct.
And it gets even better for Sutherland --
we've learned the L.A. City Attorney is equally unimpressed with the incident
and will not try and violate Kiefer's probation from a prior DUI conviction.
Just like Jack Bauer, Kiefer got off virtually unscathed.
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