I jumped off the putrid 24 train after season 5, when it was quite evident the show was going to live out its days in an absurdly endless loop of Keifer Sutherland running around, doing stuff and preventing things from happening.  I don’t think it’s too much to ask to throw in a bathroom or food break just to mix things up. 

Anyways, I recognize that some people may still be into the show, so here’s a trailer for the new season.  Action moves to NYC, so that should be fun.

No worries.  Hulu isn’t going to start charging you.  They still might add premium content that does cost money, but they aren’t about to change their business model.  I wonder how much the uproar over the floated idea had anything to do with this announcement.

Not really much to go on here, but Elizabeth Mitchell was great on Lost. This premieres next Tuesday, so you won’t have to wait long to watch the entire episode.  To be honest, not much has grabbed me this television season, so I’m hoping V becomes that show.

It’s already been neutered, now that you can only watch five episodes of a show at a time, but now Hulu is basically putting their business in jeopardy by charging people to use the website.  There isn’t a timeline in place for when this will happen, but News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey hinted it would be sometime in 2010. 

Here’s the thing — Hulu’s  value is derived almost exclusively because it’s free.  The people that watch Hulu, could easily switch to Casttv.com for example, or just Bit Torrent.  It’s a risky gamble.

Sahar Sashar put together this short video with Jason Jones and Tim Greenberg of The Daily Show about their trip to Iran.  It’s no secret that Jason Jones is going to be the next big breakout star from Jon Stewart’s cabal.

I’m not sure if this news makes me want to stick with Fox’s Glee a bit longer, especially given how fantastically awesome the Buffy musical episode was (guilty, I own the soundtrack), but Joss Whedon will be directing an upcoming episode.  My interest in the show is starting to wane so this may be a convenient time to decide if it’s worth sticking around to watch.

He comments about the news on Whedonesque: “What can we expect from a ‘Joss Whedon’ epsiode of Glee? An episode of Glee. God willin’ and the crik don’t rise, a good one. A television director’s job is, on some level, to be anonymous; to find the most compelling way to present a story without calling attention to himself. I had a wonderful time doing just that on The Office, and hope to again. A guest director can bring a huge amount to the party (we’ve had CRAZY talent on Dollhouse), but the party isn’t his. I just want to work with good people on a show that I like enough to have watched every episode several times. (I lied: I HAVE watched the show. And seriously, when do the cops show up?).”

Someone put together this fantastic video of every entrance Kramer made on Seinfeld, in order no less.  This has been making the rounds. (thx, Tony)

Hahahahahah.  No sorry, wrong video.  This is just. Um. Well, imagine if you were tricked into going on candid camera and then instead of tom foolery Panic Face King pretended to execute people in front of you and you had no idea it wasn’t real.  It’s like The Price is Right.  Except nothing like it.  Who’s the panic face kind now?

In case you’re looking for something different to watch other than the required Charlie Brown special, TV Tango has compiled a handy calendar of Halloween-themed programming from now until the end of the month. It includes more than 150 movies, series and specials.

And It’s the Great Pumpkin airs twice this month on ABC, Oct. 27 and 28, so you know, there’s that.

The funny men stopped by Fallon to chat and have Eric Idle perform their classic Life of Brian tune “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” backed by The Roots. If you were ever wondering about ?uestlove’s whistling ability, this should make it obvious he is quite the whistler.

PBS will be airing a two-hour-long documentary based on Michael Pollan’s excellent book, The Botany of Desire. The program airs October 28 at 8 p.m.

Fox has said it will air all 13 episodes of Dollhouse this season, depsite it’s abysmal television ratings.  It might have something to do with it’s huge DVR audience — the largest in all of television.  The announcement doesn’t mean the show will get a third season, but hey, at least it won’t be abruptly cancelled. 

Said Preston Beckman: “If you cancel it, you’re an asshole; if you renew it and then don’t put it back on, you’re an asshole. I’m still paying for ‘Terminator.’ ‘Dollhouse’ has a small rabid fan base that in the world of social media seems bigger than it is. We gave them another season knowing full well we were going to burn in hell if we pulled it.”

As a bonus, series mastermind Joss Whedon says he’s writing Dollhouse’s season-two finale in such a way that it could serve as a series finale if it had to:

“We’ll definitely have closure, but will leave some doors open … When we got our first numbers, which were bad, the first thing [Fox president of entertainment] Kevin Reilly said was, ‘You’ll have all 13,’ which was great. They’re not going to pull the rug out from under us.”

Here’s the cast of J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek (due to copyright claim by Paramount you’ll have to watch bloopers from the original series instead) messing up scenes, engaging in general goofiness and fumbling their lines.

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