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You may have heard about the new web site hulu.

Beginning today, consumers in the U.S. can go to Hulu.com to watch a large selection of hit TV shows, movies, clips and more in high-quality – anytime, for free.

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On Hulu.com, consumers can enjoy one of the largest selections of legal, free videos from more than 50 top broadcast networks, cable networks, movie studios and web-centric content providers. Hulu’s library offers full-length episodes from more than 250 TV series – from current hits like The Simpsons, The Office and Prison Break to classics like Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Miami Vice.

Also included are the complete first five episodes of both season one and six, as well as 167 clips from 24

The GlossLip blog today shared an interview that Marisol Nichols, Nadia Yassir herself, did with Source, the Scientology magazine.

GlossLip’s a big fan of 24, and was surprised to find out that Nichols is a disciple of L. Ron.

Will you all stop making cracks about Scientology? It’s really getting annoying. Terrorists are trying to blow up … well, something, somewhere and we just don’t have time for this, dammit!

I wasn’t, but that’s just because so many Hollywood types are that it doesn’t surprise me anymore. Lots of them, actually, were raised in the religion — Beck, for example. Wikipedia has a pretty extensive list of celebrity Scientologists. Doug E. Fresh? Jason Lee? Lisa Marie Presley? Greta Van Susteren? Edgar Winter? All Scientologists. Van Morrison, Christopher Reeve and Chaka Kahn are former Scientologists. Even Jerry Seinfeld said he “took a couple of courses.”

Here’s an excerpt of Nichols’ interview in Source mag, explaining how the religion has changed her for the better:

My assertion of rightness — which I used to really have — is gone. There’s a calmness to my space now. But oh yes, I move up and down the Tone Scale — now I know what moving UP and DOWN the Tone Scale means! In the same day, the same hour, the same session — it’s unbelievable! But it takes me higher and higher and higher towards freedom. I know I’m going to be free, and each session we get closer and closer to that.

Lots more excerpts on the GlossLip post linked to above, along with a definition of The Bridge and other info.

Check out Remote Access for a series of photos, newly captioned with all this in mind. Or, post yours here, with your caption ideas!

Photo courtesy of Fox.

A two-hour “prequel” telemovie for 24 has been set for fall, The Hollywood Reporter has reported.

Woo-hoo! We don’t have to wait ’til fall.

It’s supposed to “bridge the gap” between the Season 6 crapapalooza and the potentially awesome Season 7 with Tony Almeida’s triumphant return (OK, maybe not so triumphant, given that he’s a bad, bad man, it seems).

The Reporter said that yesterday, the show’s producers “began securing the show’s core cast members for the film.”

More to ponder later. Have ideas for the movie? Leave ‘em in the comments.

The DVD set for Season 6, otherwise known as the Crapapalooza, comes out Dec. 4.

BuddyTV.com has a breakdown of all the special features, and reminds us that the first four hours were among the finest in 24’s history (and there were a few hours here and there that shone brightly, such as the famed Chloe drops a D-bomb episode).

Here’s what the box set will include:

• More than 25 minutes of deleted scenes
• A multitude of on-set featurettes
• Webcast Diaries
• Inside the Writer’s Room
• Deleted Ricky Gervais cameo (ok, that’s just weird)
• Mobisodes (those are cell-phone only webisode-type snippets. I think.)
• Season 7 Preview (this is the closest we’re going to come for a good, long time, folks)
• A variety of commentaries featuring Kiefer Sutherland, Howard Gordon, Manny Coto, Adoni Maropis, Jon Cassar, Joseph Hodges, Evan Katz, Carlo Rota, Scott Powell, Eric Balfour, Jayne Atkinson, Powers Boothe, Gregory Itzin, Jean Smart, James Morrison, Marisol Nichols, David Fury, Bryan Spicer, Sean Callery, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Joel Surnow.

Imagine, if you will, a world where Jack Bauer was not Kiefer Sutherland but rather, say, Ricky Schroeder.

That’d never happen, you scoff. Don’t deny it, I hear you scoffing!

Aha, but that’s the thing. It could have happened (Source.)

Joel Surnow said he “was keen to cast a more youthful actor as lead in the action series.”

But then he met Kiefer, who was a whopping 34 at the time (the Rickster was only 31), and it was all over.

We’d conceived Jack as a guy who had a 16-year-old daughter but was still youthful enough to appeal to the Fox audience, which is skewed towards ‘young.’

Phew! Dodged that bullet. So to speak.

Thanks to Fox for the photo.

Blogs4Bauer has ranked the hottest women of 24, now we’re looking at the people (and/or animals) we love to see Jack Bauer hate on. We rank em, Jack breaks ‘em and now we continue our listing of the Top 10 – 24 Villains of all time.

Name: Phillip Bauer
Season: Six
Occupation: Former CEO, BXJ Technologies
First seen:Day 6 11:00am-12:00pm
Last Seen: Day 6 5:00am-6:00am
Status: Deceased?

Name: Graem “Bluetooth” Bauer
Seasons: Five, Six
Occupation: CEO, BXJ Technologies
First seen: Day 5 1:00am-2:00am
Last Seen: Day 6 12:00pm-1:00pm
Status: Deceased

Tell me your jaw didn’t drop when you realized Bluetooth was none other than Graem Bauer, Jack’s brother. OK, you’re lying. Your jaw did too drop.

First off, how could someone so soft and bald be of the same genetic material as Jack? Second, Bluetooth was a big bad, behind President Logan’s betrayal of the American people. How could Jack, whose first priority always is doing what’s best for his country, whether it’s even remotely what’s best for him or his loved ones.

Of course, a family like Jack’s could be exactly why he does what he does.

It is believed that Graem was involved in Walt Cummings having put a hit out on Jack, and that wouldn’t be too shocking. Day 5, the events of which he was at least in part behind, involved sending Sentox VX nerve gas to Russian separtists, who planned to smuggle it to Russia. But it was to be booby trapped, blowing up on the separatists, but showing there were WMDs in central Asia, making a better case for American intervention in the region.

And Graem ordered Logan to shoot down Flight 520 after he learned Jack was on board. He also ordered Logan to “take care of” his wife, Martha, and Agent Aaron Pierce. He also strongly suggested to Logan that he commit suicide when it appeared the plot would be revealed. In the end, he let the Chinese know Jack was still alive so they could kidnap and torture him.

Graem never was revealed to be behind the Day 5 shenanigans, clearing the way for Dmitri Gredenko to supply suitcase nukes to BXJ Technologies (the Bauer family company) and setting up Day 6.

Jack discovers in Day 6 that the suitcase nuke that went off in Valencia may have been at least tangentially connected to his father. He heads to Graem’s house to investigate. Graem, meanwhile, finds out Jack’s back in LA and opines that they should’ve just killed Jack when they had the chance.

This is when Jack tries to strangle him with an electrical cord. Graem’s also not as torture-proof as Jack and lets it spill that BXJ had hired the guy (Darren McCarthy) who ended up stealing the nukes from BXJ and sold them to the terrorists. Daddy Bauer is over at McCarthy’s office to erase any connection between them.

Graem and Phillip set up a fake Graem takeover of BXJ, with Graem ordering the guards to take Jack and Phillip into custody; CTU storms Graem’s house and arrests him while Jack and Phillip escape their guards and kill them. Rick Burke sets up an “interrogation” of Graem. Weasel boy ends up confessing to being involved in the murders of David Palmer, Michelle Dessler and Tony Almeida (not!).

Just before they’re about to take Graem to CTU, Phillip gets a moment alone with him. He congratulates Graem for keeping quiet about his involvement, then kills him. Thanks, Dad!

Over at CTU, Phillip does all sorts of nefarious things, such as ordering Gredenko killed. When he realizes his daughter-in-law Marilyn is going to try to help Jack find Gredenko, he asks to take Josh home with him, then calls Marilyn and tells her he killed Graem and will kill Josh, too, if she doesn’t lie to Jack.

The house Jack’s led to is booby-trapped and his entire TAC team is killed except him; Milo manages to spirit Marilyn away.

Phillip threatens Josh when Josh figures out grampa’s not such a nice guy.

No one’s life is worth the destruction of everything I’ve built.

Jack offers his life in exchange for Josh’s and Papa Bauer takes the deal. Papa prepares to kill Jack, then they have a heart to heart, kind of, and Phillip leaves while Jack apologizes for being a disappointment to him. He leaves behind a PDA with a phone number on it. Jack calls it. Charles Logan answers and says he can lead Jack to Gredenko.

Phillip finds a way to get Chinese mercernaries into CTU so they can re-kidnap Josh (gramps really does love him) in exchange for a repaired FB sub-circuit board from one of the nukes.

Jack, Nadia and Morris (Morris?!) manage to overpower the Chinese, though they’d already spirited Josh outta there.

Phillip tells Josh he wants to take him away from “this ungrateful country” and go to China. (Yeah, because that nation is so grateful to its citizens.)

A couple hours and one blown up oil platform later, Doyle’s been blinded, Josh has been rescued and Bill Buchanan has a Bill Sack to complement Jack’s Jack Sack.

Is Josh Jack’s son? Is Josh Phillip’s son? Is Josh Graem’s son? Who the hell knows? By the end of Season 6 we didn’t even care anymore, though the producers have admitted that they had planned to reveal Phillip as his dad, but then thought that a bit too icky. (They were right, but wrong at the same time.)

Producers claim that Phillip died in the oil rig explosion, but there was a boat nearby and if Tony can come back from being pretty much certainly dead (we saw Jack crying while holding Tony’s dead body!!), then Phillip can certainly be alive considering we didn’t even see him die.

Phillip’s Final Rankings (out of 10)
Meanness: 10
Coolness: 7
Reign of Terror: 8
Sexiness: 1
Total Points: 26
Graem’s Final Rankings (out of 10)
Meanness: 10
Coolness: 3
Reign of Terror: 6
Sexiness: 1
Total Points: 20

Sorry for the all caps, but that’s just about how I feel. Found it out just this morning. Check out the full report here.

Basically, Howard Gordon admits that with no ticking clock to announce Tony’s demise, the door was always open for his return.

Season 7 is not going to be a repeat of the Crapapalooza. We who kept the faith are about to be rewarded. Thoughts, comments?

By the way, has anyone told Tony that Michelle is now a chaplain on ER?

And I’m sorry, I don’t usually squeal like a little girl, but THIS IS FREAKIN’ AWESOME.

NOTE: If you want to see the whole press release, check it out here.

The Hollywood Reporter reports on two more additions to the cast — one for sure, the other’s in negotiations.

Annie Wersching is a lock. She’ll be an FBI agent squaring off against Jack. She’s being named as the “major new female lead.” Maybe she’ll finally get Jack’s mind off Audrey. (Please!)

Bob Gunton is the other name being dropped. He played SecDef Ethan Kanin in four episodes last season. In other words, he’s the guy who succeeded the best SecDef ever, James Heller. He’s also the guy who made Karen fire Bill. He’s in negotiations to become a regular this season.

Wersching’s claim to fame is as a star of General Hospital, playing Amelia Joffe. She’s also been in eps of Supernatural, Company Man, Boston Legal, Cold Case and lots of stuff like that. Gunton’s a character actor who’s been in tons of stuff.

If this entry sounds rushed, it was. I wanted to make sure to post it before bRight caught wind of it.