Yes­ter­day Fox released the trailer for 24′s -- prob­a­bly final -- sea­son 8 which will pre­miere on Jan­u­ary 17th, 2010. This time around, the series will unfold in New York City and see the re-​​activation of CTU’s New York office. It’s back to the roots for Jack Bauer as the plot line seems more akin to the nar­ra­tive that started the whole show. The story arc involves Bauer con­tend­ing with an assas­si­na­tion attempt on pres­i­dent Has­san from a fic­tional Mid­dle East­ern country.

Sea­son 8 sees Bauer want­ing to spend some time with his daugh­ter and grand­daugh­ter but once again his coun­try needs his help. Pres­i­dent Has­san is threat­ened to be assas­si­nated at the United Nations and, of course, only Jack Bauer has the skills and guts to help. Pres­i­dent Tay­lor and Chloe Sul­li­van return to help. It also looks like they brought back Charles Logan who was left nearly dead in sea­son six. Let’s see how this will turn out.

Farscape Com­plete Series Megaset

On Novem­ber 17th, A&E Home Enter­tain­ment and The Jim Hen­son Com­pany will release Farscape The Com­plete Series Megaset. This Megaset con­tains all 88 episodes plus over 15 hours of bonus fea­tures.  A full list­ing of the con­tents can be found over at TVShowsOnDVD.com.  The Gift Set ups the ante by includ­ing two bonus discs title The Archives. If you’re still miss­ing The Peace­keeper Wars, don’t worry: A&E has bro­kered a deal for you. You will be able to buy one of 5,000 lim­ited Collector’s Edi­tion gift sets exclu­sively avail­able at Best Buy.

I have only recently acquired The Ulti­mate Com­plete Col­lec­tion but it’s still in the process of being shipped to me. It cost me quite a few bucks and doesn’t con­tain bonus mate­r­ial, as far as I know. I pre­fer this cover over the one on the new Megaset, though. And I still hope for a Blu-​​ray release which will prob­a­bly not hap­pen soon, if ever. Well, let’s see.

So, what about the promised webisodes they didn’t made because of the bad econ­omy? There’s not much infor­ma­tion to be found on the issue. Looks like they’re in the process of rais­ing money to make that hap­pen, accord­ing to Nix over at SciFiCool.com, who attended this year’s Comic Con. They’re very keen on doing some­thing with the FarScape Uni­verse and it seems like money is the only issue. Ah, it’s a shame.

Farscape Com­plete Series Megaset Cases

New year, new Word­Press and new episodes of my favorite TV shows. What else could I pos­si­bly need? Here’s the low­down on what to expect over the next few weeks:

First up, Scrubs returns on Jan­u­ary 6 for it’s eight sea­son. The pre­miere is titled “My Jerks” and fea­tures Courteney Cox as Dr. Mad­dox, who arrives at Sacred Heart to replace Dr. Kelso. Elliot has issues with here ego – again – and J. D. strug­gles to keep his new interns in the line.

Had your fill of Jack Bauer after 24: Redemp­tion? Guess not. Fox will bring the series back with a mas­sive four-​​hour, two-​​part sea­son pre­miere on Jan­u­ary 11. On Jan­u­ary 12, 24 will con­tinue with the sec­ond part of the sea­son pre­miere and on Jan­u­ary 19 24 will move to 9 p.m. Sweet! Cer­tainly, Jack Bauer will once again res­cue every­one but the bad guys. Sim­ply love to see this show.

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The good news first: The pop­u­lar TV show Heroes will return to NBC on Sep­tem­ber 15 and accord­ing to SciFi.com it will return big. Ben Sil­ver­man, co-​​chairman of NBC Enter­tain­ment and Uni­ver­sal Media Stu­dios, said that it will be a three-​​hour event. They will kick off with a one-​​hour “clip show” to bring the audi­ence up to date and then they will air “a mas­sive two-​​hour Heroes film”. Chap­ter Three will be sub­ti­tled “Vil­lains”. If you can’t wait until fall, never fear: NBC is plan­ning to offer up Heroes webisodes in July.

Now let’s move on to the bad news: Heroes: Ori­gins is offi­cially dead. For now. Sil­ver­man explained that they were tax­ing their cre­ative team to do too much around that and so they decided to drop the idea. He went on: “We wanted 35 Heroes [episodes] and 12 Heroes: Ori­gins, each of which was sup­posed to be a mini-​​movie and back­door pilot. We reached far and chal­lenged our peo­ple, and we decided it was bet­ter to focus on keep­ing the Heroes moth­er­ship as strong as possible.”

I’m late with this piece of infor­ma­tion, I know. Still, it’s some­thing that should be known. Accord­ing to a report at TV.com Fox has offi­cially con­firmed the fourth sea­son. Addi­tion­ally, the net­work will move pro­duc­tion from Dal­las to Los Ange­les. That surely is great news after the dis­ap­point­ing end­ing of the third sea­son which in itself was quite short. At the moment no details on the next season’s sto­ry­line have been released. If I were to make a guess, it will be about Michael and his revenge and – hope­fully – about get­ting Sucre out of prison. Well, we’ll see.

As this isn’t really very sat­is­fy­ing, let’s take a look at what else there might be com­ing. A short time ago, The Hol­ly­wood Reporter men­tioned a Prison Break spin­off. If it will ever be, it will take place at a female prison and it will be named Prison Break: Cherry Hill. Accord­ing to a report at Yahoo! News a char­ac­ter likely will be intro­duced in the new sea­son and the spin­off will focus on her. A while ago, THR ran a story about that char­ac­ter and about the spin­off in gen­eral. Well, we’ll see about that too.

Due to strike com­pli­ca­tions Fox has been forced to delay the sev­enth sea­son of the pop­u­lar show to an unspec­i­fied date. Last week, Fox dropped the bomb­shell: There will be no sea­son of 24 in 2008! Up to now, the crew has already shot eight episodes and if Fox wanted to con­tinue pro­duc­tion this year, there would’ve been a lengthy break between the air­ing of the already shot episodes and the new ones. In order to ensure that the sev­enth sea­son was aired unin­ter­rupted, Fox opted to delay the show until Jan­u­ary 2009, one year after its orig­i­nally planned run date. TV.com has the news.

Here’s the low-​​down on what has been con­firmed for the sev­enth sea­son up to now:

• With CTU dis­man­tled, the show’s set­ting moves to Wash­ing­ton, D.C..
• Jack Bauer faces trial for his actions in the pur­suit of justice.
• Tony Almeida returns!
• Chloe O’Brian and Bill Buchanan too are back.
• There will be a female president.

I will eagerly await the next sea­son of 24. Hope­fully, they will use the time granted by the pow­ers that be to be more cre­ative than ever before. They absolutely need to pro­duce a show that really kicks some ass. After the dis­ap­point­ing sea­son 2 of Heroes I call it a good deci­sion to wait and prod­uct some qual­ity rather than some hastily thrown-​​together episodes.