Jack Bauer is amazing, but apparently not even the baddest counter terrorism agent on the planet is powerful enough to battle a group of striking writers.
FOX announced Wednesday that the highly popular series “24″ will be delayed indefinitely. And since the summer months usually give lower ratings, it could be as late as Fall of 2008 or even early 2009 until we get to see “Day 7.”
Executive producer Howard Gordon said this:
“Hopefully it will have the same effect it had on ‘The Sopranos’ and it will whet fans’ appetites even more,” Gordon said. “I really appreciate the integrity [Fox and 20th Century Fox Television] have toward the show. The only other alternative was a shortened order. Airing 23 episodes of a show called ’24′ would have felt like less than the optimal way to present the show.”
The idea of airing in two parts wasn’t appealing to them either, because of the hit in ratings Lost took for pulling the same, erroneous stunt.
Not surprised…bummer, I was actually looking forward to Day 7.
Shawn
Fox will move Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles into the 9 p.m. Monday timeslot effective Jan. 14, after an hourlong premiere on Jan. 13, in place of 24, which is being delayed because of the writers’ strike, Variety reported.
OK, I’m officially siding with the writers on this one. Everything I’m reading says they’ve dropped some of the key demands and what’s left seems reasonable. In the meantime, I’ve got more that enough books to keep me busy. So stick it to ‘em!
See you all at Borders!
Looks like The Office is also shut down too.
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/early-victim-of-strike-office-originals-end-next-week/?hp
Whats interesting is when the Actors guild went on strike, not to terribly long ago, there was a HUGE fuss from the writers guild that their strike puts a lot of writers out of a job, and keeps them from earning a paycheck and blah blah blah. Its interesting now to see actors saying they support the writers… Actors went on strike previously saying they should be getting more money from syndication and from DVD sales.. now writers are wanting that cut as well. Who should get it? Who knows…. Personally, I think Jack Bauer should get it all, that way he could afford a driver to drive him around everywhere so he wont get another DUI…
I dont think I’ve seen any actors saying writers stopping their show will not let them continue earning….