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Jack Bauer's Hours Could Be Numbered...

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

From TVByTheNumbers.com: Multiple sources are reporting that anonymous parties in the know at Fox have decided not to renew "24" for a ninth day and that an official announcement could come any day now... Increasingly high production costs and diminishing ratings are cited as reasons the show will end its run on Fox...

Meanwhile, it is also being speculated that the show could end up resurfacing on NBC - yes, the cash-strapped, still-smarting-from-Leno-at-10 PM NBC.

More info:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016256.html
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/tick-tock-clocks-stopped-24-15119
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/09/24-canceled/44489
 
IMHO, it's time has come anyway. I think this latest season is really starting to make 24 show it's age. I feel like I seen it all before.
 
The show's getting very predictable. I think that it's time for 24 to Rest in Peace, just like Deal or No Deal, but I think the series IMO is getting Pwnd by the fact that it is the same terrorist saving storylines though much needed in these post 9/11 days, but for me, I can live without it, but IMO, if the series is to be ending, I think the best thing for it is to make a series finale which would close the chapter on the series. It's about time for Jack to move on with his life. IMO, the first 5-6 seasons of the show were good, but the 7th and 8th is getting to become predictable with Jack or other characters geting killed off in every episode and some people are just getting tired of it now, so 24, it's now officially Pwnd! (24'nd!)
 
Wow, that's quite a statement about "24" coming from a member whose username has "JackBauer" in it... but you're right, all things must come to an end, at some point...
 
Despite my sig, I haven't even watched 24 this season. Partially because I despise Freddie Prinze Jr., and partially because the show's run its course. Bauer was on his deathbed when the "clock" ran out last season, and that would have been a perfect end to the show.
 
I think 24 would have a better chance of success now if it were on FX or Spike than on Fox (FX did encore presentations of 24 episodes on a one week delay for the first few seasons before it was pulled in favor of reruns on A&E & WGN America). They could push the envelope a bit more.

Heck, if Sleeper Cell (A show that's like 24) could succeed on Showtime (And later on The 101 on DirecTV), then there's no reason why 24 can't enjoy the same kind of success.

BTW.....I'm watching this season of 24 via Hulu Desktop because NFL Full Contact on TruTV comes on at the same time & I like both shows.

Just my opinion......

Cheers :D
 
Never watched it, or Lost, can't get into these episodic shows that you need to watch weekly because if you miss one show you're screwed. My work schedule is such that I couldn't be sure if I'd be home to watch or set the recorder to get it.
 
I absolutely LOVE "24". It's the only show I have on my "appointment TV" list.

I think this season has been VERY well done, as good as last season, mainly for the way Jack has been positioned up to this past week's episode. Now that he's "in", so to speak, as the CTU leader, even though not employed, on the ops mission, that did add an aura of some predictability to it.

But to watch him watch someone go further than even HE would in interrogation, watch him with his granddaughter, et al, it's been a nice twist, deeper character understanding, and well done.

The Dana Walsh storyline really got on my nerves until Prinze ended up involved. I'm now interested as to how that'll turn out.

They either need a final year to wrap it up on TV or let it play out in a movie in a theatre, though, with the formatics of the show, that would be very hard.
 
YEKIMI said:
Never watched it, or Lost, can't get into these episodic shows that you need to watch weekly because if you miss one show you're screwed. My work schedule is such that I couldn't be sure if I'd be home to watch or set the recorder to get it.
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"Lost" lost me after the very first cheezy show. I haven't been back but from what I read on various blogs it has been a confusing trip for most viewers. Seldom to I remember a show airing a "special" to "unconfuse" its fans.

"24" OTOH is nothing more than a rehash of most 1940's era spies-vs-the G-men potboilers. During WWII there were spies and gremlins lurking everywhere and usually only one "hero" who could stop them from destroying the world. This episodic nonsense was repeated endlessly with each installment showing the hero about to be ground into hamburger after the bad guys strap him in his car and throw it off a cliff. Fortunately, the following week we always learned (but were not shown) our hero managed to jump out of the car just as it hurtled off the edge.

The only major difference between "24" and these cheezy serials are the names of the bad guys. They now wear turbans instead of swastikas.

Oh.....one more difference. The 40's versions had some pretty good-looking ladies (who always managed to get themselves into jams despite being told they were not to come along). "24" has Chloe. Enough said.
 
I have watched every season of 24 but it's time to end it. I am so uninterested in this season at this point that I am watching my DVR'ed episodes, "when I get a chance." There was no imminent attack threat until almost 8 hours in, Jack seems to be sleep-walking through most episodes, the sub-plot with Dana and Dumb and Dumber has been awful, and I am ready for Renee slit her wrists and put herself out of her misery. I am sure that the writers will somehow find a way to tie Dumb and Dumber, and Milton's (aka Stephen Root) so-called "Probation Officer" character to the overall plot. Heck, Milton may even end up being the mastermind behind the whole sequence of events.

"I believe you have my stapler, and I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume. So, I'm going to burn down CTU and nuke NYC."
 
Good news for 24 fans. It looks like NBC is interested in picking up the show should Fox cancel it.

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/03...s+(Entertainment+Weekly's+The+Ausiello+Files)

BTW, a lot of people are complaining about the Dana Walsh sub-plot. It was the #1 complaint on a CNN.com article about 24 two weeks ago.

I enjoy the series a great deal but admittedly it has, as the saying goes, "jumped the shark" so many times that there are almost no sharks left. The Dana Walsh thing is just one more shark-jumping exercise that I find unnecessary.

c5
 
DToTheJ said:
Wow, that's quite a statement about "24" coming from a member whose username has "JackBauer" in it... but you're right, all things must come to an end, at some point...
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Maybe it all was a dream, or happened in a snowglobe, or he will wake up next to Suzanne Pleshette! Ah the possibilities!
 
YEKIMI said:
Never watched it, or Lost, can't get into these episodic shows that you need to watch weekly because if you miss one show you're screwed.
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Yeah, I had the same trouble with the "Beverly Hillbillies" back in the 60s. :)
 
Since you didn't see him until the end, and even then you didn't get a good look, although word would have gotten out about who it was, I suppose it was possible for Kiefer Sutherland to still have fans as a hero after doing such a brilliant job as a villain in "Phone Booth".

I've never watched "24" but I saw a parody of it on 'The Simpsons".
 
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