There is only one reason to be even more excited about the long-awaited return of 24..Sean Astin! Sean Astin has joined the team of the hit show 24, an action-packed drama set around the Los Angeles based government agency CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit) starring Kiefer Sutherland. The unique thing about this show is that each episode is only an hour in the show, so each season of 24 episodes is only 1 day..making for a very intense season every time! Kiefer’s character ‘Jack Bauer’ has in the past seasons (called ‘Days’) been forced to almost kill a presidential candidate, saved LA from a nuclear bomb, a killer virus, and more! Watch the first 2 hours unfold tonight (Jan 15th) starting at 8PM, and then 2 more tomorrow (Jan 16th). Hold on to your seat, don’t blink, and expect the unexpected…Jack’s Back! & Sean Astin is with him! [More]

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The following will take place Sunday between 8 and 10p.m. About 15 million people will tune in to the fifth-season premiere of Fox’s “24,” and most of these viewers – or around 3 million more than last season’s average, by the way – are what might be call hardened “24-nistas.” They are a passionate, dedicated, obsessive crowd who have waited anxiously for this hour to arrive. The preceding NFL playoff game is a mere obstacle to be endured before 8 p.m. Nirvana. They have spent the past eight months dreaming about their show. They’ve watched and rewatched the fourth-season DVD collection. They’ve planned “24” parties for Sunday night. And they’ve studied every reported fifth-season development with dutiful and slavish attention. [More]

Joey writes: I put together a pretty comprehensive report of Sean Astin’s book signing in Philadelphia on the 22nd. Bits of it are about my personal experience with friends and getting to meet him, but most of it is simply what I remember from his talk and other little details about the night. [More]

The fake babies bundled into a bin suggests this is one serious television show. The waft of horse dung makes the West Auckland set smell like a Greek city from many years BC. Rotund warriors in fur uniforms, gaunt villagers in smocks, and fake baskets of fruit add to the atmosphere. One Hercules cast member who is used to filming in New Zealand is Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in The Lord Of The Rings. In Hercules, Astin is again cast as a faithful companion, playing the bard Linus. “The sidekick business has been very good,” he laughs. “It’s not hard work. [More]