YES!
24 Writer: You crackaz ain't seen nothin' yet!
I like the "anthology" idea, like Fargo. New characters and settings each season. No more of the same ol' CTU/political junk. And it would attract bigger name stars than Puffy Jimmy.
Posted on 08/09/2017 10:15:57 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Fox chairman and CEO Dana Walden said the network is exploring new ways to continue the franchise, even though it released star Corey Hawkins out of his commitment for future installments.
“We are really exploring what the future might be, perhaps as an anthology storytelling franchise,” Walden told reporters Tuesday at the Television Critics Association tour in Beverly Hills. “We felt really good about a lot of the last season. It was a hard decision to make, whether to bring it back or not. We let Corey out of his obligation so he could do his Broadway play. It felt like the right thing to do, to take the pressure off around upfronts.”
But Fox continues to believe there is still time left on the franchise.
“It felt like, where we left off, we can continue telling stories about those exact characters,” Walden continued. “It felt very close to the original. Our goal is to make something that generally extends the life of the franchise. Viewers got a taste of 24 again. It had the urgency of real time. It whetted their appetite.”
Walden said the network has met with longtime franchise producers Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer, and Joel Surnow about the next evolution.
Last season, the new iteration of 24 with Hawkins averaged 6.08 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49. Former star Kiefer Sutherland was an executive producer on the show.
“As well made as 24:Legacy was, and we did think it was well made, telling that story that was so close to iterations that people had seen, begged a kind of comparison and made people think, ‘Oh it’s the same thing and Kiefer isn’t in it,'” Fox President David Madden told reporters. “And obviously Kiefer was not available to us. We said that kind of ticking clock urgency can apply to all sorts of venues so we’re exploring a couple different avenues right now. We’re not locked into one yet. But Howard and Brian are really excited about it. 24 will be back on our air.”
The network seemed less committed to bringing back Prison Break but Fox execs aren’t ready to close the book on that franchise that returned to middling ratings this spring.
“We’re always interested in new angles and stories that come out of our library,” Madden added. “If the producers thought about how to explore a new iteration of it, we’re be excited to talk about it.”
It was a gadget format in the first place. I was surprised they kept it beyond the first season. It was cool to have that ticking clock but they cheated the real-time so regularly (how many times did Jack drive across LA during a commercial break, when everybody who ever lived there knows it take 2 hours to get anywhere in LA) it almost became self mocking.
Yeah I think that’s why a lot of people stopped watching. The ratings decreased almost every single week.
We cut the cable in late June.
Before we cut the cable, my wife noted on paper what TV Channels we watched. ABC had zero shows with the exception of the Kelly Show in the morning.
Re Fox, my wife and I both had stopped watching the new 24, and she had dced Bones early this year. So Fox tv has zero watchers in our family.
There are couple of NBC shows if there is nothing else.
We watch about 5 CBS shows!
We no longer watch Faux news after Kelly tried to lynch Trump in the debate last year.
It has been decades, since I have watched any cable or network fake news.
A lot of our conservative friends and relatives are basically like us re minimal tv from the majors.
I was amazed that even though 24 was in "real time" in Los Angeles, every crisis location was only 20 minutes away at any time of day.
-PJ
Yes. And I don’t know why he wouldn’t. Everything he has tried since has flopped.
I tried to watch Designated Survivor and after 2 episodes gave up. Interesting premise, just too much Liberal Politics injected into it. Just as easy to watch 24 reruns on Amazon.com and no commercials.
Jack Bauer without Freckles Wersching, no 24.
I quit watching most TV network programing when my first daughter was very young and I realized the Seinfeld episode was about masturbation. After that it was Nick at Night. We also collected DVD's of old sitcoms like Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Hogan's Heroes, etc. The comedy has held up great over time and I don't have to worry about what little ears may hear.
Longmire is like that too. They're supposed to be in Northern Wyoming, but Arizona and Denver seem to be a couple of hours away.
Future Network 24 revival
24 BLM edition didn’t really work. Hard to tell the good guys from the bad.
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But he was driving the whiz-bang double naught spy Kiefermobile. Not as good as the Batmobile but close.
YES!
24 Writer: You crackaz ain't seen nothin' yet!
I like the "anthology" idea, like Fargo. New characters and settings each season. No more of the same ol' CTU/political junk. And it would attract bigger name stars than Puffy Jimmy.
Puffy Jimmy was quite disappointing.
As long as they bring back Tony each season, I’m good with it. He is the undead ghost of CTU Past, plus kinda cute. They can change the rest of the cast. Also, maybe skip seasons for the ubiquitous gay romance.
They could rotate between different CTU locations, each with its own cast. Each weekly story would center on a different CTU (and cast), and each would face some terrorist crisis which would play out over the course of a week (within the 2-hour nightly movie time limit).
Prominent guest stars would be featured each week, either as the target or the baddie. Each CTU might have a different story focus. For example, the Washington DC CTU could focus on threats to the President, Congress, and SCOTUS. A New York City CTU could focus on financial cybercrimes, and Boston-NYC-Chicago threats. An LA CTU would focus on AsiaPac terror. A heartland CTU could focus on homeland and/or international intrigue stories. Or maybe make one a British CTU to focus on European stories.
-PJ
By the way there is a version of “24” on in India.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2792284/?ref_=nv_sr_5
Out of sheer boredom and lack of things I am interested in watching. I started binge watching the original “24”.
Without a doubt one of the best action type shows ever on TV.
One caveat though, and this was brought up numerous times during the original run, is the character of Jack Bauer’s daughter, Kim. She, along with Jack’s wife Terri in the first season, were two f the the most naive, and downright dumbest I ever seen, especially Kim. She was a total airhead.
Now I am watching season two and if we were going to have Black President, I would rather it was someone like the fictional David Palmer. Yes he was a Democrat and a Liberal, but he was head and shoulders better than Obama.
One interesting thing in season 2 is the emergence in the plot of a cabal trying to undermine and bring down Palmer, reminds me very much of what is going on now with the Deep State against Trump. Worth watching again.
Agreed, 24 was a great show. When rewatching season 2, I usually fast forward most of the scenes with Kim and Teri. Teri’s amnesia plot was pretty bad!
Kim was a always a sideline that never made sense. Her character, as written, came across as a lightweight.
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