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07.20 | Jack Bauer is going to the movies

"What is it going to take for you to stop giving away major plot twists in the '24' promos?" groused one critic. "It was really out of control this past season." Gail Berman, the network's entertainment president, acknowledged that she'd heard the complaint before, especially about a crucial scene in which hero Jack Bauer, was clinically dead and then came back to life.
Scroll down the page and you can find out information about the forthcoming season three marketing tactics. These include:
  • a CD-ROM insert in Entertainment Weekly and People magazines
  • a four-minute trailer during Fox's broadcast of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'
  • a two-minute version of the trailer to be shown in 2,400 movie theatres in October
    • And if anyone can get a hold of any of those CD-ROMs, I'd really like one. I'm worried about the four minute trailer idea, though - surely a four minute chunk of a 45 minute episode could spoil all the good bits. Unless the idea of the trailer's to wrap up all the plotlines from series two to try to tempt new viewers into watching...
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