FUTURE FOX

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The next issue of EW has interviews with both Obama and McCain about pop-culture.

McCain’s favorite TV commander in chief: President Palmer of Fox’s 24. “You know, I hope that I and all Americans can be colorblind about any president,” the Republican contender said when asked about the similarities between Obama and Palmer.

You’ll soon come to appreciate her on 24 as the FBI’s “Janis Gold,” but you know her in the real world as Janeane Garofalo. And now you can also call her Guest Radio DJ.

Janeane picks out and discusses five songs that have inspired her on KCRW.

What music inspired her to lapse into the techie talk we’ve gotten used to hearing from Chloe? We’ll have to tune in on Saturday to find out if she made any musical 24 connections. Chloe and Janis would have listened to the podcast instead, which you can also find online.

And while you’re on the KCRW site, check out Virtuality director Peter Berg’s guest DJ set as well.

Our hard-working cast and crews are busy today. Here’s just a mere sampling of what is going on Tuesday, August 5th in the FOX world:

• Joss Whedon is directing Dollhouse on location in a hangar.
• The Virtuality first episode is humming along. Right now, they’re in an “airlock” set.
• Practically the entire cast of Prison Break is in scenes today.
• 24 is filming in the White House set.
• Terminator is on location at a house standing in for the Connors’.
• Do Not Disturb is taping on the lot.
• Sit Down, Shut Up has a table read with its very funny cast.

We’re churning out quality television for you lovely people!

Tony Almeida’s back! IGN feels the writers’ love:

Executive Producer Howard Gordon joked that when it comes to Tony, “It could very well be a measure of our desperation that he’s back.” Gordon then noted, “This is not the first time he’s come back from the dead. Carlos (Bernard) has been dead on the page, I think, four times. He got shot in the neck – we never had any intention of him recovering, but miraculously, he did. We love his character.”

Zap2it feels Kiefer’s love:

Sutherland added, “The first scene I did with Carlos, I got to shoot at him and tackle him. I loved it. It was awesome.”

Cause you know you want to see Carlos:

Ew.com’s PopWatch knows that me and Kiefer agree on something:

And his favorite moment during the show’s multi-year run? “When I chopped that guy’s head off in season two,” admitted Sutherland.

What about that 24:Exile movie? BuddyTV’s got the deets:

With the season postponed because of the writers’ strike, when it was over Kiefer and Howard Gordon discussed something they could do for the fans in the interim. What originally was an idea for a 7-10 minute prequel turned into 2 hours at the urging of the network.

Variety encapsulates my giddyness from the whole weekend:

The panel’s best moment may have come when a young man, Cameron, asked Sutherland about his pervasive use of the phrase “Damn it!” and asked Kiefer to give him a “Damn it, Cameron!” Sutherland turned around and, in classic Bauer bravura, yelled “DAMN IT, CAMERON!” The crowd erupted in cheers. It’s gonna be good to have Jack Bauer back.

Here is the gloriousness:

And E!Online gives thanks where thanks are most definitely due:

God bless you, Kiefer Sutherland. Despite being one of the baddest mother, um, the small screen has ever seen, and saving the world on a daily basis, you remain, so far, the most gracious of all panelists at Comic-Con 2008.

At the end of the 24 panel session with fans at today’s Comic-Con, Kiefer made a point to give a huge heartfelt thank-you to the fans, then stood up and gave us all a standing ovation, followed by the rest of the panelists.

Check it on the you:

Congratulations to 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub on the birth of her first child — a boy named Valentine Anthony.

And congrats to Do Not Disturb’s Jerry O’Connell, who announced that his wife is expecting twins.

The American Heritage Dictionary’s definition of wiki: “A collaborative website whose content can be edited by anyone who has access to it”

So we’re giving you full access! Please visit our new wikis. Read, contribute, make changes. Do what you will.

• Fringe
• Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
• House
• 24

Let us know what other shows you’d like to have your way with. On a wiki, of course.

EW.com on the potential return of a beloved/hated character:

Kim Bauer may be coming back! 24 exec producer/director Jon Cassar just revealed to me exclusively that there have been preliminary discussions about bringing back Jack’s much-maligned daughter this season. “We have talked about it,” he confirms. “But anytime we talk about Kim, we immediately say, ‘Let’s not do anything with her that will result in the audience hating her.’”

USA Today on Exile:

The movie takes place on Inauguration Day. Just as Powers Boothe’s Noah Daniels is handing the presidential reins to Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones), a military coup begins in a fictional African country.

This year’s baddie is played by Jon Voight, who appears in the movie and then resurfaces midway through the regular season.

MeeVee gets the inner struggle description from the man himself:

“It was fantastic,” said Sutherland. “When he left at the end of Season Six, he was so disillusioned by not only with what he’d done with his life but with the circumstances he confronted here in America, that there was something wonderful with the beginning of show in Africa, that he had actually found a kind of peace and a calm there with (guest star Robert Carlyle) as an old friend of his from special forces 15 years ago.

“Bobby’s character had started a school that was trying to provide a safe haven and rehabilitate the children of the African wars, children that had been involved in the fighting, many of those children ranging in age from 8 to 13. It was the first time you saw (Jack) in a place where he felt like he was giving back for a lot of things where he felt like he had been a part of the problem. This was an opportunity for him to kind of clean himself. Not only on a physical level, but on an emotional level, it was a nice fresh start for him.”

iF Magazine gets Kiefer to talk about the 24 two-hour prequel, called 24: Exile:

•œI saw trailer a second ago and it looked like a movie,• says Sutherland. •œIt sets up the conflict that starts in the prequel and is carried all the way through Season 7,• says Sutherland. He also notes that the two-hour prequel will be two hours in real time and that many of the characters from the prequel will be appearing in Season 7.

From MeeVee on the Fringe “cast”:

“Yes, the cow is now a regular,” executive producer Jeff Pinkner said drily, “but we now have a new cow because we weren’t able to travel our cow down from Canada (where the pilot was filmed). We had to recast the one from the pilot. We literally had a conversation about making up the cow, in case anyone notices the spots are different.”

From STL today on the Fringe pilot being leaked:

Viral marketing? “It’s hard to believe, but we didn’t put it out there,” says executive producer Bryan Burk, adding that they hate to have anything seen before it’s finished.

From LA Times Show Tracker on the images we’ve put out to promote the show:

The team will solve a mystery in each episode, even as they try to sort out the larger force behind the phenomena. Clues are sprinkled through the series in reoccurring images: a six-fingered hand, a leaf, smoke that reveals a secret pattern.

“It’s part of the code of the show,” (show co-creator and executive producer J.J.) Abrams said.

From The TV Addict on J.J.’s future involvement:

J.J. revealed that he’s trying to split his time between post-production on STAR TREK, while continuing to be involved with FRINGE. He co-wrote the pilot, and plans to stay as involved as he can with the writing and the story arcs and even plans on directing one of the episodes. Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that J.J. also hoped to direct an episode of LOST for oh, the past two seasons.

From iFMagazine on the 24 prequel TV movie:

As for the story, (Fox Entertainment President Kevin) Reilly explains, “It tees off the season — it’s a separate day.”

“It’s the day of the election of the president and swearing in,” he adds. “It’s a self-contained two hours.”