REAL LIFE 24 FOR KIEFER SUTHERLAND

Now that 24 is on a break, Kiefer Sutherland is anxious to get this show on the road.

Barely two hours after being formally sentenced to 48 days in jail in connection with his September arrest for driving under the influence, the Emmy winner reported to Glendale City Jail to start serving his time, E! Online has confirmed.

Records show that the 40-year-old actor arrived at 5:30 p.m. and 16 minutes later he was in a holding cell waiting to be photographed and fingerprinted.

STUCK WITH REALITY TV FOR A WHILE?

There should be enough scripts for all your favorite shows until the first of the year, but if the strike lasts after that then it will be nothing but reruns and reality TV.

Writers Guild of America board members voted unanimously Friday to begin the strike at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time (3:01 a.m. EST) unless studios offered a better more profitable deal with a bigger cut from video sales and shows sold or streamed over the Web.The union said it would stage its first pickets in New York and Los Angeles after strike captains meet Saturday to finalize details.

The first casualty of the strike would be late-night talk shows, which are dependent on current events to fuel monologues and other entertainment.
"The Tonight Show" on NBC will go into reruns starting Monday if last-ditch negotiations fail and a strike begins, according to a network official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person lacked authorization to comment publicly.
Garth Brooks and Tommy Lee Jones were the scheduled guests.
Comedy Central has said "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" would likely go into repeats as well.
A message left seeking CBS comment on plans for "The Late Show with David Letterman" in New York was not immediately returned Friday evening.
During the 1988 writers strike, Letterman, then host of NBC's "Late Night," and longtime "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson initially went off the air but later returned as the walkout dragged on for 22 weeks and cost the industry about $500 million.

Daytime TV, including live talk shows such as "The View" and soap operas, which typically tape about a week's worth of shows in advance, would be next to feel the impact.

AP Television Writer Lynn Elber contributed to this story.

Writers Guild Contract Expires On Oct. 31

Their contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers expires Oct. 31.
The writers' unions are demanding that they be paid higher residual fees for films and television shows on DVD. They are also asking that pay schedules be set up for other digital outlets, such as the Internet and mobile phones.
So far, the AMPTP has been unreceptive to those concerns, according to various published reports. In the case of new media, producers want to get a better sense of how programming for the Web and cell phones will be valued by the marketplace.
Several scripted television shows would be unable to air new episodes in the second half of the TV season, depending on how long a potential strike lasts. As a result, reality shows -- which do not require union writers -- might become even more ubiquitous on U.S. television.
The last Writers Guild strike occurred in 1988.
David B. Wilkerson is a reporter for MarketWatch in Chicago.

What could this mean for all our favorite shows? Alot of the shows we love will run out of episodes by early next year, so I'm sure we all hope they come to some sort of agreement very soon.

"LOST" Star Arrested For DUI !

Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin, is the last cast member to be arrested for DUI, reports The Honolulu Advertiser.While most of the details haven't been released, the newspaper reports that the 39-year-actor was arrested around 3 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, in Oahu, Hawaii, where the show is filmed. He was booked at the Honolulu Police station and was released at 5:05 a.m., when a silver SUV whisked him away.

Other cast members have run into problems on the island as well. Cynthia Watros and Michelle Rodriguez were both busted for DUI, while Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was arrested for driving without a license.

What happens on the set of LOST?
Must be something in the water on that island. LOL

Was "VIVA LAUGHLIN" a FLOP?

The Hugh Jackman-Lloyd Owen musical drama, which follows a fictional Nevada casino, had the best lead-in on television in "CSI." But "Viva Laughlin" (8.8 million) came in third place at 10 p.m. against a veteran "ER" (10 million) as well as ABC's freshman "Big Shots" (8.3 million), neither heavy hitters by any measure."Grey's Anatomy" (17.7 million) won in adults 18-49 against "CSI" (20.8 million) at 9 p.m. "Grey's" was down 10% week-to-week while "CSI" rose 5%. "The Office" (8.5 million) dropped 6% from last week. The 8 p.m. hour was won by "Survivor: China" (13.4 million), which was down 6%, while "Ugly Betty" (9.7 million) declining fell 11% and both "My Name Is Earl" (7.2 million) and "30 Rock" (6.3 million) were down.