Posted on 07/14/2007 10:30:10 AM PDT by Bratch
Season 7 of 24 promises to be its tensest yet — at least on the set.
Execs at the Fox hit have scrapped virtually their entire story line for the season, delaying the start of production by roughly three weeks. According to sources, the 11th-hour time-out was called after the network put the kibosh on a costly plan to shoot a number of episodes in Africa. Producers briefly toyed with the idea of finding a location in Los Angeles that could sub for the continent, but they ultimately decided to ditch the whole concept and start over from scratch.
Although a Twentieth Century Fox spokesperson declined to comment, 24's expert scowler, Mary Lynn Rajskub, confirms that the clock for Day 7 has been reset. "I don't know what's going on over there, but they're going crazy," says the scene-stealer, who learned only last week that Chloe would be returning. "We usually start [back up] at the end of July, and I don't think we're starting until a couple of weeks into August now. It's kind of exciting, because I think [the postponement] means that they're really having to dig in there and come up with new stuff."
The show's creative team was no doubt already feeling the pressure: Day 6 was considered to be about as explosive as a wet firecracker, so for Season 7 they really needed a plot that was incendiary. In fact, news of the setback comes on the same day the semiannual Television Week critics' poll (in which yours truly participated) named 24 the second-worst show on TV, behind ABC's best-not-traveled October Road.
For more on 24's big rewrite — including what impact it'll have on plans to introduce the show's first female president — check out Ask Ausiello this Wednesday.
I don’t have a problem so much with the suspension of disbelief thing. I like the heroic aspects of Jack Bauer. What I do have a problem with is the pc-ness of this past season. It felt like we were being preached to. When I want a sermon I’ll go to church. They pull that stuff one more time & I’m done with them.
I like your line of thinking.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
The real problem was that they couldn’t figure how to get Jack to Africa and back during commercial breaks.
“Jack, I’ll send the matter transference protocol to your PDA as soon as my water breaks.” — Chloe.
Doesn't matter. Last season jumped the shark so superlatively that you'd have to pay me to watch the next one week-to-week. If they recover and have a good season, I'll catch it on the DVD release.
I understand what you're saying but I watch the show sort of philosophically. I mean, the plots have always been rather irrelevant on the way to the next explosion or hostage situation. For me the Silly meter broke Spoiler alert, I will change the font to white for people who don't wish to be accidentally spoiled of a silly plot complication (just highlight the white space to reveal the spoiler):
As I was saying, for me the silly meter broke when Chloe was protecting the secret the Chase had a baby. In fact, the whole strung out Jack Bauer seemed kind of silly to me.
Oh yes, and who can forget the silliness of Kim versus the Mountain Lion! Or even Amnesia Mom from the otherwise excellent first season?
But, in the end, it is only TV entertainment and you learn to roll with these things or find better ways to spend you time. Still it is hard to beat 24 for explosions. BSG has had some spectacular set pieces but then we get wrapped up in the soap opera because they spent too much money on those. So hour for hour, 24 is still the best hour of action on TV.
Season 6 was pretty lame... but no worrys... . . . . . . .
JACK WILL ROCK IN 2008 !!
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... jack ROCKS!
The show needs to focus on killing Muslim/Euroweenie terrorists. I guarantee they’ll get higher ratings.
LOL!
Chloe: "It's kind of exciting, because I think [the postponement] means that they're really having to dig in there and come up with new stuff."
Hope that means no more Palmers, no more bluetooths and no more soap opera plots.
Hmmm...that could be better than campaining!
Seriously, they gotta give up the soap opera crappola.
This is good news, I hope, that they will get that 24 mojo back working again.
Why didn't they set the season in Mexico? Then they could have filmed in Los Angeles.
No. But definitely typecast ......a well accomplished lesbian actress named Cherry Jones.
She was the cop in Gibson’s “Signs”.
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