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'24' pauses for breath
Production on 24 will take a two-week break while writers figure out what will happen next on the serialized FOX drama.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, filming on 24 will be shut down from Sept. 15 to Oct. 9, a previously unscheduled hiatus. The trade paper says that the down-time was imposed by veteran showrunner Howard Gordon as an opportunity to rewrite several scripts and reconsider the direction of the season's final six episodes.
This is just the latest speedbump in the seventh season of the Emmy-winning drama.
The show's producers have been quite candid about the different false starts for the season, shifts in plot that caused several delays last summer. After production actually started rolling, the writers strike interrupted things after the competition of the season's eighth episode, causing fans to have to go a season without a new chapter of the Kiefer Sutherland-fronted series.
The show returned to production in April on both seventh season episodes, as well as the two-hour telefilm which will air in November and serve as a bridge to new episodes.
Because of the eight episodes in the can and the early production start, the two-week hiatus won't have any impact on the 24 January premiere.
Few faces set for the show's seventh season include Jon Voight, Cherry Jones, Colm Feore, Sprague Grayden, Janeane Garofalo, Annie Wersching, Jeffrey Nordling, Rhys Coiro and John Billingsley.
I believe in omens and such, thanks to a background steeped in such things. If the writers/creators of 24 haven't figured out yet that this really, truly should be the final season, I don't know what else would get it through their thicks skulls. This is one of the greatest shows in the history of television. It would be a shame if, instead of going out with an awesome bang (like Newhart, say), it goes out with a pathetic, childlike whimper (like, say, ER). Time to ride into the sunset, Jack. It's been fun, but it's time to say goodbye.
Revenant | Sep 8, 2008 1:17:56 PM | #As much as I love 24 I agree that since they are having so much trouble they should make this season or next season the last...Depending on what storylines they have going. I heard Elisha Cuthbert is coming back for a season ending arc so I think it would be a good oppurtunity to write a Series Finale and end the show while it's still on top...There are only so many times that they can tell the same story and sometimes the events seem like retreads of past seasons. Just my humble opinion....but as long as 24 is on the air I'll continue to watch regardless.
Paul | Sep 8, 2008 2:10:49 PM | #I love 24!!! I will continue to watch (DVR) every episode till the show ends, but lets face it 24 has been off it's game since season 4. I have so many unanswered questions it drives me crazy. In season 4 we never find out what happens to Bharooz, the prez survives the downing of Air Force One, but is never seen or herd from again. After all the back and forth between Jack and Marwin, he ends up falling from a parking lot structure...I mean come on. In season 5 they go on a killing spree, the way Tony died made me so mad, but as it turns out he may still be alive? Which beggs me to ask why they killed him in the first place? Season 6 was just so crazy it is hard to comprehend what the writers were thinking. I will only focus on the "New" president Palmer for season 6. I feel they brought him in to make the original fans of the show like me happy, and we were for a while. But once again the Prez is injured and disapers, but in this season shows up for like one episode, just to vanish all together the next episode. I remember reading about the show before season 6 started and the writers were saying how the new prez was going to start off kinda weak, and end strong and presidental like, but they changed their minds when a guy named Both Powers came in...WTF??? Anyway I feel beter now that I have vented. But it just shows how much I care for this show and want it to return to its glory. In this new season I hope they fix what they F't up in the last season and get down to it, otherwise it needs to end before it becomes like LOST, and sheds viewers, and becomes pointless and undermines what the show was in the past seasons. But unlike LOST, their is still HOPE for 24!!!
Justin | Sep 8, 2008 9:17:52 PM | #NO! NO! NO!
I LOVE my "24" and don't want it to end until Jack is in an old age home AND has a feeding tube attached!
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