Every week, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
When will Kim Bauer be coming back to 24? And will it have anything to do with the bio-weapon Jack has been exposed to? — Yong
MATT: When I asked Kiefer Sutherland about the nature of Kim's latest encore (slated for mid-April), he said, "Something has happened to Jack, and it's he who asks for her — normally it's the other away around." Kiefer went on to call the father-daughter reunion "very human and real ... a part of the show I'm excited for the audience to see." So your theory sounds about right. Just don't expect the now-married Kim to have Pony Boy at her side; her Season 5 romance apparently didn't take.
Are we ever going to see the Scavo twins on Desperate Housewives again? I love those goofy bastards. — Rachel
MICKEY: No word on Dumb or Dumber, but if it's adolescent angst you're hankering for, get a load of this: Another Housewife will soon ...
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Now playing in this week's Jack Bauer-powered, all-24 Mitovich Mega Minute:
• Kiefer Sutherland reveals how the return of a familar female face will be handled differently this time around.
• Tony Todd and Cherry Jones tease the unexpected setting for a face-off between General Juma and President Taylor.
• Exec producer Howard Gordon promises more "surprising" returns.
Watch and discuss the new MMM after the jump.
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Hockey star Sean Avery has been skating on thin ice, and he knows it. The Dallas Stars player apologized Wednesday for comments he made about ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert (aka 24's Kim Bauer) that unleashed potential disciplinary action and a public reprimand.
"I should not have made those comments and I recognize that they were inappropriate," he said in a statement. "It was a bad attempt to build excitement for the game, but I am now acutely aware of how hurtful my actions were."
His apology came on the heels of criticism for an interview he gave Dec. 2. "I love Canada," he began. "I just wanted to comment on how..." More, after the jump.
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Elisha Cuthbert (24) has landed the female lead in NY-LON, a CBS drama pilot based on a British series that starred Rashida Jones and Stephen Moyer. The premise: A New York City teacher/record-store clerk embarks on a cross-continental romance with a London stockbroker. (Get it — NY-LON? Took me a minute, too.)Also cast in the pilot, says the Reporter, are Caterina Scorsone (1-800-MISSING) and Johnny Whitworth (CSI: Miami), playing Cuthbert's roommate and ex-boyfriend, respectively. — MWM
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This I am passing along if only to type it out loud: Paris Hilton and 24 alumna Elisha Cuthbert on Tuesday night were spied "all over each other and making out" at NYC's Tejune club, a source tells Us. Cuthbert's rep denies the Sapphic slip.... Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel has forgiven Sean Young (who was since admitted to rehab) for drunkenly heckling him at Saturday's DGA Awards. It was really fine," he tells USA Today. "I'm sorry she got taken out of there".... The 15th-annual SAG Awards have been scheduled for Jan. 25, 2009.
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