This season is the end. It was a great show, so its demise is sad. At the same time, I have most of this season’s episodes Tivo’d but haven’t even watched them yet. Not sure why, but if my ambivalence is any sort of a sign, perhaps this is why it’s over.
Fox’s ’24’ winds down to its end
Fox has officially stopped the clock on 24.
The network announced Friday it has canceled the series, as first reported by USA TODAY. 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.”
I don’t think so.
To me, it’s no coincidence that 24 started going downhill the season they added Janeane Garofalo. I personally haven’t watched it since. After all, it was on late at night and trying to sleep after watching her was quite trying.
I still get shivers. The nightmares… ooooooh, the nightmares!!!
I just ordered seasons 1 – 7 on DVD because I never got to see the first 4 seasons, which I heard were far superior. Not only did Garofalo turn me off, when Jack Bauer started doing PSA’s for environmental causes, I knew the show was doomed. It became far too PC in the last two seasons, with a black president followed by a Hillary wannabe. Even this season, the Iranian president is seen as a good guy who loves America. This show used to be fiction based on reality. This season is fiction based on pure liberal fantasy.
i have never watched this show. not once.
i did, however always find it odd that at the lesbian bisexual gay transgender vegan co-op ( which strangely was mostly only really really angry lesbians and gelded anarchist straight men) a friend of mine moved into (i told him not to. i said it would end in tears….) they adored 24 and watched it religiously.
i never figured that one out.
I was preparing this remark as I was logging in. I see someone else is on the same page as me.
It’s over? Really? I thought it was over when Janeane Garofolo was on it. That was a while ago.
It was the late great Fred Gwynne who answered Stuttering John Melendez’s political question by saying, “John, I believe that an actor should never get up on a soap box.”
What he didn’t say is that part of an actor’s value in that market is their ability to suspend the audience’s disbelief and persuade them to buy into the character they are portraying. When they get publicly political, they just destroy that, and they can’t get it back. I think it’s a measure of their ignorance when they don’t realize that.
I agree with Tammy. I’ve seen every single episode from Day 1 up until this year. I saw 2 or 3, then, the DVR queue filled up, and I was also ambivalent.
My all-time favorite episodic television show, BAR NONE. The ONLY show that is “appointment TV” for me (unless Tammy is on O’Reilly, of course!)
This season has been surprisingly strong. The last two years have gotten a bum rap after a very subpar Season 6. Last year was excellent and this year continues on that trend. I don’t know what their filming schedule is, so the end may already “be in the can”, but from what I’m reading in the trades, they are promising turns that will take the show to some dark and uncomfortable places. That has to happen, as, yes, there are only so many ways Jack can “save the world” in 24 hours.
When Jack’s character is freed from that format into a theatrical release (which is rumored to be next), I believe it could completely re-energize the franchise and create a series of movies a la “Star Trek” when it went to the big screen almost a decade after its TV demise.
TAMMY, take some time and watch it. Don’t wait for all 24 hours to air. In an afternoon, you can knock out about 9 shows. And, I don’t know how much you know about the series, but you’ll love Chloe. 🙂 🙂
I have to admit that I’ve never watched “24” – and especially after EVERY bad guy was a “neo-Nazi white supremacist” and muslims were always the good guys helping to stop them from destroying the world. It’s like what Marvel has been doing with Captain America lately. 🙁
24 has a loyal fan base, and I am one of them. I only wished it was on Friday nights so I could drink more! I have every DVD set for 1-7. It is the only TV show I have ever watched and enjoyed. The story line theme is always around terrorism, and it makes me believe there is more deception to evil than we can see. It is interesting to go to the message boards and find that a lot of people make negative comments that have never watched it regularly. Let us fanatics have our sadness in peace… My fantasy is that somewhere out in the crazy world, there is a real Jack Bauer out there looking out for all of us.