Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:
• As 24 stages another enjoyable showdown 'tween warring computer wonks Chloe and Janice, the question looms: Might Janeane Garofalo be kept around for next season? I've got Mary Lynn Rajskub's take on her real-life gal pal's possible encore.
• If Cold Case gets picked up for seventh season, what new ordeals await Lilly Rush? Kathryn Morris shares a sneak peek.
• And as Lost's two-hour season-ender nears, I have to wonder: Can Jacob even be killed, as Locke aspires to do? Michael Emerson shares his qualified (and always-entertaining) two cents.
Watch and dicuss the new MMM after the jump!
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Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland's attorney says the actor was "neither the instigator nor a wrongdoer" in the incident that led to a misdemeanor assault charge against with the 24 star, who is accused of head-butting a fashion designer.
"We are troubled by the untruthful and self-serving information circulating regarding Kiefer Sutherland and events of last Monday evening," attorney Michael C. Miller said in a statement.
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Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of third-degree assault after turning himself in to police Thursday.
The 24 star, who is accused of head-butting fashion designer Jack McCollough, will not be jailed as he awaits a court hearing. Instead, he was given a desk-appearance ticket requiring him to appear before a judge in about a month, police told TVGuide.com.
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Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland's widely reported scrap with a fashion designer in New York City could violate the terms of his DUI probation in Los Angeles, a prosecutors' spokesman tells TVGuide.com.
New York police are investigating a complaint from designer Jack McCollough, who says Sutherland head-butted him at a party and who was spotted Wednesday with a cut on his nose. No charges have been filed, but New York's Daily News reported Wednesday that the actor will surrender in the next few weeks to face a third-degree assault charge.
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As this hour begins, Tony is sinking even deeper in that amoral cesspool he dove headfirst into a couple weeks back. It's truly disturbing watching the former CTU agent set up these innocent Muslim men as fall guys for his group's latest terrorist attack — taping their mouths closed, holding guns to their heads, forcing concerned older brother Jibraan Al-Zarian (Omid Abtahi) to spout terrorist threats on video. Is this really the Tony we all thought was a hero — albeit a somewhat-dark one — and a genuine friend of Jack's? Scary.
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Jack's got a lot of news to deliver this hour — and, this being 24, it's pretty much all bad. First up, through all his shaking and sputtering, Jack manages to tell Renee that Tony's "the second man" who smuggled the canister off of Starkwood's complex. Realizing that means Tony killed Larry, Renee is crushed. Ten, there's a flash of anger that tells us she'll be out for revenge.
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Heroes
Gossip Girl
8 pm/ET CW
Michelle Trachtenberg reprises her role as Georgina Sparks, and she returns to the Big Apple as a very different person. However, some things never change: Chuck and Nate find their friendship in peril as they fight over Blair, just as they did last year. Meanwhile, as Serena grows closer to her new beau, Gabriel, things get...complicated.
Read on for previews of Heroes, 24, Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and Two and a Half Men.
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Heroes, Lost, Scrubs
Every year at this time, your favorite shows pull out all the stops to wrap up some big stories, steer others in new directions, and launch brand-new sagas to unspool come fall. Which Hero will power down, and for good? Who on Lost will lose their life? What unexpected news awaits a Desperate Housewife? We've got your guide to those season-ending twists and many, many more after the jump.
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Michael Weatherly (NCIS), Mary Lynn Rajskub (24) and Hayden Panettiere (Heroes)
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.
We've been teased big happenings with NCIS' Tony and Ziva, and I'm all for that, but need I be worrying so much? — Kate
MATT: I finally got NCIS boss Shane Brennan to dish on "Tiva," and it looks like you might be left to fret all summer long. He told me, "What happens over these next episodes is an evolution of their relationship — though perhaps more extreme than you would get in your normal [workplace]. These people do carry guns!" Then, in the wake of specific events of the May 19 season-ender, he said, "It's up to the audience to decide, and they will over the summer, what might happen [next]. But everything has a life, and eventually things end." Listen very carefully to Brennan's coda here: "Now, if you think I just said that Tiva's going to end, I didn't."
I've heard that Heroes' Volume 4 ends with a major death. Any tease? — Eric
TIM: You're half-right. Of course, not everyone who dies stays dead. Except those who do. Also, look for one character to ...
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Well, now we know for sure: Larry's really dead, glassy eyes, blood-smeared mouth and all. In order to set up his cover story for Larry's murder — and presumably continue working his evil plan from the inside — Tony pulls the old shooting-himself-and-waiting-for-help move. Clichéd, but effective.
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