February 2009
Carlos Bernard has had quite a journey as Tony Almeida on FOX's Monday-night thriller 24, from soul-patched tech geek at the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) to running-and-gunning field agent to family man to hopeless drunk to grieving husband to apparent corpse.
Now in the show's seventh season, he's back from the not-quite-dead and walking on the dark side.
"I want to tell you," he says, "it's my favorite season, but that's for selfish reasons. But I think it's also been a cool year, because it's much more personal than it's been over the last couple of years.
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I think we can all agree that last week's Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles wasn't the greatest episode ever. Fortunately, this week's was far better, not wholly original, but far better.
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Dear Battlestar Galactica writers: You do know that after tonight, you only have three episodes left, right? My humble opinion is that maybe we could start getting some answers.
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Well, this is just swell. I promised myself I wouldn't get attached. Wouldn't get hurt again. But there Dollhouse goes, making me start to care for it something fierce. And I just know it's gonna end up one day being gone, like an active's memory once the mission is complete. Then again, if Echo's any indication, maybe there's a chance, just a slight chance, that the show isn't necessarily going to go that way. Which is a relief: after all, how many shows reference both Britney Spears and Isaac Asimov in the same hour?More
Attention, Upper East Siders. No Doubt will be taking a detour during the early days of their tour to visit Manhattan's elite.
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There's a new ghostbusting guy in town, and he's got all the gadgets and whiz-bang cameras a non-Ghost Whisperer could want. Is he the real deal, or just in it for the money? And our soul-crossed Sam finally finds out what Melinda's really all about, and not in the way she was hoping for.
Jimmy Fallon is prepared for whatever criticism he may get as the new host of NBC's Late Night. This is, after all, the man who starred in Taxi.
