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| Written By Rick
Ellis, Sunday, January 7th, 2007 The first four episodes of the sixth season of Fox's '24' have been leaked online, a week before the official January 14th season premiere. The episodes first appeared on an Asian BitTorrent site on Saturday, and now are widely available on file-sharing and BitTorrent sites. The episodes appear to be ripped from the upcoming '24' Season Six teaser DVD, which is set to be released commercially on January 16th. That DVD set will include all four opening episodes and a twelve minute preview to episode five. This is not the first time that episodes of '24' have leaked online prior to its official premiere. In the previous two seasons, episodes of the show have surfaced on BitTorrent sites, but only two or three days ahead of the scheduled debut. There is a lot of speculation among fans of the show that the episodes were in fact leaked by someone connected with the production of the series. The planned leaking of episodes online is an increasingly common guerilla promotional tactic adopted as a way to build additional buzz for a show as it prepares to officially premiere. Calls to Fox and the production company were not returned on Sunday, but a person associated with the show (who asked to remain unidentified) did admit that there had been some joking about the tactic in the past couple of weeks. "I have no idea whether anyone connected with the show was responsible," said the source. "But we certainly joked about doing it, and wondered out loud about whether someone would leak it ahead of the 14th. I don't know that we need any more buzz, but I guess now that it's out....hey, it's all good." |
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