Brian Damage
09-07-2008, 12:29 AM
The clock is stopping on "24."
Unhappy with the direction of some season-seven scripts, producers of the
Fox drama have opted to shut down production of the show on Sept. 15, right
after episode 18 wraps filming. Production is expected to resume in early
October after a roughly three-week break.
A representative for 20th Century Fox TV, which produces "24," confirmed the
upcoming hiatus, which was first reported in a story posted on the Web site
of Entertainment Weekly.
Because the next season of "24" won't open until January, and production is
far ahead of normal due to the writers' strike, Fox will still be able to
air a no-repeat season of the show as planned.
Executive producer Howard Gordon told Entertainment Weekly said there's no
reason for fans to be paranoid about the reasons for the shutdown.
"We had a couple of scripts that we weren't happy with" he told the
magazine. "We just couldn't get this direction to work, and we found another
one that we liked better, so we wound up retooling it... Our feeling was
this: We're so happy with what we've done so far, and to the extent that we
had that luxury [of time], we said, 'Why not make it as good as we could?'"
Fox is still planning to air a two-hour standalone "24" made-for-TV movie in November.
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/09/foxs_24_to_take_filming_break.php
Unhappy with the direction of some season-seven scripts, producers of the
Fox drama have opted to shut down production of the show on Sept. 15, right
after episode 18 wraps filming. Production is expected to resume in early
October after a roughly three-week break.
A representative for 20th Century Fox TV, which produces "24," confirmed the
upcoming hiatus, which was first reported in a story posted on the Web site
of Entertainment Weekly.
Because the next season of "24" won't open until January, and production is
far ahead of normal due to the writers' strike, Fox will still be able to
air a no-repeat season of the show as planned.
Executive producer Howard Gordon told Entertainment Weekly said there's no
reason for fans to be paranoid about the reasons for the shutdown.
"We had a couple of scripts that we weren't happy with" he told the
magazine. "We just couldn't get this direction to work, and we found another
one that we liked better, so we wound up retooling it... Our feeling was
this: We're so happy with what we've done so far, and to the extent that we
had that luxury [of time], we said, 'Why not make it as good as we could?'"
Fox is still planning to air a two-hour standalone "24" made-for-TV movie in November.
http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/09/foxs_24_to_take_filming_break.php