Report: Fox to Revive 24 as Limited Series

TV Line ^ | May 9, 2013 | Michael Ausiello

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Episode 1: Jack and his team rescue a beseiged Ambassador and his staff

Episode 2: Jack and his team go undercover in Dagestan to infiltrate a terror cell

Episode 3: Jack and his team take out a rogue politician about to spill the beans about what she knows.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I thought they might have done something really subversive like allowing Jack to be happy at the end. But the writers of the season were so ham-fisted and myopic, they couldn't figure out a half-decent story. I was already upset by the way that season was going. And when they killed Renee, I shut off the TV, told the people on the FR 24 thread that I wasn't watching anymore, and have not had even the inkling of a desire to know how the series ended.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Wasn’t it due to new writers? I thought I remember that happening.

I watched all the episodes and now I can barely remember them, has it been that long?!

If they do another series, short or not, if it’s filled with more pc garbage they can stuff it.

[Jean2]

ME TOO!

[Delta Dawn]

‘Unless he has to do battle with extraterrestrials it can only go downhill from where it was.’

I see your point.

Now that we no longer have to worry about the Islamic scourge, the worst calamity that Keifer will have to face is a gathering of two or more Tea Party members with a gun magazine(publication) in hand.

[lwoodham]

OMG , I’m so excited. I just finished watching the whole series, all the seasons and wondered where in God’s name I would ever find anything like it again. I loved it.

[bigbob]

Yay

[Yossarian]

Here's an idea: CTU's budget is so impacted by the sequester that Jack Bauer has to work out of the same "Buy More" that Chuck Bartowski used as a cover.

Pros: John Casey finally has a coworker that he's truly scared of.

Cons: Morgan and Sarah get viscously killed in the first 15 minutes of Hour 1 after visiting the CTU infirmary.

Recovery after ratings sink: Morgan gets reconstituted in Hour 9 from a beard fragment.

[InterceptPoint]

Great idea IF:

The bad guys are Jihadists. No more PC baloney.
They return to their command center as the main location.
They get back at least a few of the original players.
They hire the writers who wrote the scripts for the early years.

[max americana]

“The bad guys are Jihadists. No more PC baloney.”

That’s why I have season 4. It was a sleeper mooslum family in America who were the bad guys.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

A cabal of Evangelical homeschoolers develops a potent virus that they plan to use to decimate America's homosexual population. They are aided unwittingly by a violent Central American based drug cartel who sell drugs laced with it into the gay party scene.

Jack is ready to help, but he must first undergo sexual harassment training, homosexual/bisexual/transgender sensitivity training, anger management training, and environmental awareness training.

Still raring to go after 23 hours of meetings, Jack finds that the homeschoolers have succeeded, and he is left wondering where he's going to get a decent haircut.

[NTegraT]

My all-time favorite show. However, if they bring it back just to kill off Jack Bauer, I will be forever beside myself and Fox will be on my kill list. Seriously.

[Carpe Cerevisi]

Bring back Edgar!

[InterceptPoint]

You are reminding me why I gave up on 24 for it’s last few seasons. Unfortunately, your scenario is actually plausible.

[deoetdoctrinae]

[Yossarian]

24 Ping.

[Lancey Howard]

Awesome!
I was just saying to my son the other day, I really miss ‘24’.

[LaybackLenny]

Hopefully, he'll rescue Renee and bring her back to life.

Hmmm. Maybe "Freckles" has a previously undisclosed identical twin sister? ;)

[Duke Nukum]

I liked the concept of Touch but the execution was boring. I quit watching after only a few episodes.

I would love a 24 reboot and I think a limited series would be best. I’d rather have 7 great episodes then 24 full episodes with a few mediocre ones sprinkled in.

[dead]

Eh. I want the movie.

That's way to long to sit in a theater.