May 20 2009 06:12 PM ET

'24' exclusive: Hail to the (new) chief!

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Chrisdiamantopoulos_lAccording to my watch, it’s time for the second piece of casting on 24‘s eighth season!

Chris Diamantopoulos — best known as Debra Messing’s gay BFF on The Starter Wife — has been tapped to play the series regular role of Rob Weiss, the argumentative and tough new Chief of Staff to President Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones). He replaces Taylor’s current C.O.S., Ethan Kanin, who snatched his job back in last Monday’s finale after the prez’s psycho daughter, Olivia, was taken into federal custody.

As I previously reported, Day 8′s action will switch from Washington D.C. to New York City and center on an assassination plot against a visiting foreign leader (Slumdog Millionaire‘s Anil Kapoor, the new season’s first piece of casting).

Bonus piece of trivia free of charge: Diamantopoulos is married to Ugly Betty‘s sublime Becki Newton. On second thought, that little nugget is worth at least $50. Pay up.

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  • Alex

    Wait, Mike – in the finale, Taylor’s Chief of Staff Ethan (Bob Gunton) took back his letter of resignation when the Prez asked him to. Shouldn’t he be Chief of Staff? What happened to him?

  • Matthew

    so what happens to Kanin after the season finale?

  • John

    Guess we’ll find out next season . . . although it isn’t uncommon for Cabinet staff to change over a term (or two? We have no idea what the time jump wil be into Season 8). My theory, though, is that Kanin will be dragged out of retirement for the adventure . . . and The POTUS and FG are gonna be SOOOO divorced.

  • Brandon

    Ethan won’t be the Chief of Staff anymore because he will be the new First Gentleman.

  • Tom P

    I thought Kanin was here to stay? I liked him.

  • Lorie

    Thanks for the scoop.

  • Pete S

    John:
    I believe I read the new season would start quickly after the end of this last season; we’ll see what happens to Ethan, I liked Bob Gunton

  • Adam

    Can’t believe we need to wait all this time for a new season!!!! :(
    http://tvdonewright.com/2009-2010-season-preview/

  • Cash

    Wait… Sarah Paulson’s grandmother of a girlfriend is going to be the president next season? Swell.

  • Robbie

    That nugget isn’t even the half of it. The true meat to that tidbit is that they met on a subway platform! I love their love story.

  • Alex

    Cash – she was President THIS season too.

  • skitzo

    kanin gets assassinated first ep. new guy comes in as COS (who is also part of the mysterious 8 or 12) and infiltrates to plot a hit on the UN in NYC…..remember where you heard it first!

  • rockgolf

    So is it possible that FG Colm Feore has divorced and now President Taylor is in a relationship with (now) former Chief of Staff Bob Gunton?
    They certainly left open the possibility that Feore’s character was upset enough to get a divorce, since her Presidency cost them both their children.

  • TL

    Damnit! was hoping for a new president!
    -TL
    http://grittywriter.wordpress.com/

  • Jesse

    Can I just say I love the poster who commented and called Cherry Jones “Sarah Paulson’s grandmother of a girlfriend” hahaha! :-)

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