{"id":8751,"date":"2009-12-10T16:44:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/first-look-anil-kapoor-in-24\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:44:02","slug":"first-look-anil-kapoor-in-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/first-look-anil-kapoor-in-24\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Anil Kapoor in \u201824\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Bollywood star makes TV debut in action packed series<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/AnilKapoor%2724%27_460x180(1).jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>ACTION hero Jack Bauer is back on our screens next month in the action-packed eighth series of \u201824\u2019 \u2013 and this time he\u2019s brought a bit of Bollywood with him.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anil Kapoor &#8211; famous to a million South Asians as the 80s heartthrob of Bollywood, and to the rest as gameshow host Prem in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire \u2013 will make his TV debut in the hit action show. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The series will be broadcast here on Sky HD and Sky1 in January. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anil, 49, will play Middle Eastern leader Omar Hassan who is the subject of an assassination plot during a visit to America. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>It\u2019s not long before Bauer is called upon to help prevent Hassan\u2019s murder.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Other newcomers in the series include Freddie Prinze Jr and Mykelti Williamson.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>For more pictures scroll down!<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>24 Day 8 launches with a double bill in January 2010 on Sky1 HD and Sky1.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/AnilKapoor%2724%272_460x180(1).jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/AnilKapoor%2724%273_460x180.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood star makes TV debut in action packed series &#13; ACTION hero Jack Bauer is back on our screens next month in the action-packed eighth series of \u201824\u2019 \u2013 and this time he\u2019s brought a bit of Bollywood with him. &#13; Anil Kapoor &#8211; famous to a million South Asians as the 80s heartthrob of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}