March 27, 2010

Fox has officially stopped the clock on 24.

The network announced Friday it has canceled the series. A victim of higher costs and declining ratings, 24 will end its run when the current eighth season concludes this spring.

Star Keifer Sutherland says he's "really nostalgic and really sad" at the show's demise. But executive producer Howard Gordon says the cast and crew agreed the time was right, as the show's real-time format became limiting: "We've really had what feels like our last day."

The series, which premiered in 2001, played an important role in the rebuilding of the Fox network, and was a groundbreaking drama in its early seasons, even though initially low ratings left its future uncertain.

But critics seemed to tire of repetitive plots in recent seasons, ratings have faded, and the network wants to build new shows in the key Monday time slot behind hit medical drama House.

Although Gordon's contract to oversee the show expires this year, studio 20th Century Fox unsuccessfully tried to pitch the show to NBC when Fox bailed. Gordon calls that plan "a challenge," and NBC wasn't interested.

Now the cast and crew will turn their sights on a long-discussed feature film, which would send Sutherland's Jack Bauer to Europe for a story set in single day that avoids its current format, in which each episode represents a single hour. Though a first-draft script has been written by Billy Ray (State of Play), the movie has not yet been greenlit.

In the meantime, the series will come to a more "definitive" end than in past seasons, Sutherland says, that makes it clear hero Jack Bauer can't continue in his role as CTU's action hero.

The series wraps production on April 9 and will air its two-hour finale on May 24.


http://www.usatoday.com/l...-end_N.htm

It's about time.

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You don't know...jack!

Wowugotit said:

Lol

Never watched the show. Saw bits and pieces. Sorry to hear that. Seems like Fox is canceling a lot of things lately. It's probably just room for stuff they think is good. Or not. We might go back to a time when all they showed was movies and stuff during the week.

I love the show, but it's time.

I've been a fan since the first hour, but this is the right decision. I had to watch every week for the first five seasons, but this is the 3rd straight where I'm waiting until the end of the season to watch it in a few marathon sittings. There are just too many better shows I'm busy watching now.

I felt kinda bad about it until I talked to my dad. He says the show hasn't been so good lately. Pretty much agreed with everyone here who said it was time. Something about the writing and how "stupid" things were getting, he says. Still, I kinda forget about Fox unless I'm watching the Cartoon lineup, or Simpsons and TMZ on the week days. Other than a local breaking news story, Fox really doesn't have a place anymore.


Meh, that's just how I feel. Maybe they're making room for more Gleek. I really like that show.

NOOOOO... Even though I don't like the FOX cable station, I do watch 24. I watched it from the beginning. Oh well, all good things must come to an end. Thanks for the heads up.

I love 24..but the time is right..the storylines are getting kinda old.I honestly believe that President Wayne Palmer paved the way for Obama...lol..it made the country comfortable with fact that a black man can be president...IMO

It IS time! I think House is ready for the door too!

SavonOsco said:

David Palmer was the President before his brother Wayne.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

House has been ready for years

InsatiableCream said:

I think 24 picked up again. After season 6 was a steaming pile of rotten crap, 7 and 8 were mostly very good. Except for the storylines that have been done to death and have been a 24 cliché since season 3....

All in all, 24...

I´ve never watched a whole episode of 24. Never caught my interest
[Edited 3/28/10 8:27am]

Gret show.....but it is time.
Idol is NEXT.

RodeoSchro said:

Yeah. It was time. I mean, the whole "terrorist is gonna hurt us" plot line of every season was getting old.

InsatiableCream said:

BITE YOUR TONGUES BLASPHEMERS!

House is AWESOME!

AlexdeParis said:

That's who I meant..lol..my bad

SavonOsco said:

Well, they both held the office, so no big deal.

evenstar3 said:

Yeah, bums me out ( oh, Jack ), but I agree that it's time.

And this season is good so far, so hopefully it'll go out right.

InsatiableCream said:

trader!

Never watched it.

BUT... if they're gonna cancel the show, couldn't they have not all but spilled the beans around Bauer's buying the farm? Just seems they'd still want viewers guessing what's gonna happen.

Lammastide said:

That most likely won't happen, because they are planning on doing a motion picture version of 24 in the near future. I have mixed feeling about this, because I like the action, but they have been recycling storylines. This season started out really slow but has picked up in the past few weeks. I just wish that the side storyline didn't involve that chick from Battlestar Galactica being a mole for the terrorists, because the whole storyline up to this point was out of place. The only thing worse would be having Jack Bauer captured towards the end of the season with the terrorists atrapping a dirty bomb to him and threatening to detonate it when all of a sudden a stray cougar attacks the terrorists and runs off with the detonator.

Too bad they're canceling it now that it really starts kicking ass again. Monday was awesome!

I watched this show at the beginning, but it was totally ridiculous. I then heard how good it got, so I started in with season 3. But it is totally ridiculous.