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Start spreading the "news": The next season of Fox's terrorist crime thriller 24 will be set right here in New York City. After seven seasons in LA and one in DC, "Day 8" of the series will unfold in the Big Apple. Sources also tell Entertainment Weekly that next season "CTU will make a comeback under the leadership of a new, yet-to-be-cast male character by the name of Brian Hastings. Described as an MBA type with a razor sharp intellect, Hastings will be joined by two new twentysomething agents (one male, one female), as well as Mary Lynn Rajskub's returning Chloe." Will the Counter Terrorist Unit clash with the NYPD, just like in real life? Will Bauer spend half the episode waiting for the friggin' F train? Or maybe save New Yorkers from evildoing photographers? The narrative possibilities are seemingly endless here, but don't expect to glean any plot clues by following the production around town—when shooting begins next month, most of it will still happen in LA.

Last week, City Councilman Simcha Felder proposed legislation to ban menus, fliers and circulars from being distributed to homes and buildings with signs that say they don't want them. Many of our readers loved the idea, but doubted it would be enforceable.

The device, a RadEye Pager, sounds its alarm when it detects higher than normal levels of radiation nearby. The police have about 900 RadEye Pagers in use citywide, all for counterterrorism purposes.

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Between fake terrorist alerts and scandals big and small, this just might be the Best Best of the -ists ever. We're exhausted just thinking about it.

Publicity stunts are way cooler when Jack Bauer is somehow involved.

Kiefer Sutherland has taken some time off from being Jack Bauer and has focused a bit on his independent record label act (yeah, we didn't know either), Rocco DeLuca & the Burden. Despite the band name, the music actually isn't bad (take a listen at their MySpace).

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute.