Fox Cancels "24: Legacy", but Isn't Done With the Franchise Yet
by Tim Surette
Jun 7, 2017


Fox has canceled "24: Legacy", but that doesn't mean that terrorists should feel free to breathe a sigh of relief and relax.

The network is giving up on "Legacy", according to EW, just as many expected. The reboot of the Kiefer Sutherland franchise with "The Walking Dead's" Corey Hawkins at the center finished the year as Fox's fourth-highest-rated series, but when you take away the post-Super Bowl episode that drew more than 17 million viewers too lazy to change the channel, "24: Legacy" was a dud.

Actually we saw this coming, as the post-Super Bowl audience was the worst for the slot in 14 years, and was nearly the worst in 40 years. The series never reached above a 1.0 rating in the 18-49 demo after its fourth episode and sunk to 3.4 million viewers and a 0.82 rating in its finale.





Fox now says they will work with producers to reboot the franchise by developing a "24" anthology series. (I guess the one-and-done Legacy was technically Season 1 of that?)

Assuming it follows the rules of anthologies, the new "24" would follow new stories for each season with new cast members, but one has to imagine that they would all be linked in the same universe with commonalities.

http://www.tvguide.com/news/fox-cancels-24-legacy-anthology/

24 hours leading up to somebody's wedding!

There is no 24 without Jack Bauer.

Talks Underway for New Iteration of "24" Franchise that will Leave CTU – TCA
by Nellie Andreeva
August 8, 2017


"24" may get a reinvention, with the real-time format moving away from terrorism. During the Fox executive session at the summer TCA press tour, chairman Dana Walden revealed that the network and producing studio 20th Century Fox TV has started preliminary discussions with "24" executive producers Howard Gordon, co-creator Joel Surnow and Brian Grazer.

“We are really exploring what the future, the next version of 24 might be, maybe in more anthological storytelling,” she said, adding that they had met with the "24" trio who “have a very exciting idea about how to do that, that I thought was very compelling.”

Walden declined to elaborate further, noting that the project is in very early stages.





Fox Entertainment president David Madden hinted that the series may be leaving the signature CTU setting of all previous incarnations.

“The same kind of ticking clock format and apply it to something else,” he said. “It will have the same urgency but may not be set in the CTU, it will have same style and urgency but in a different venue.”





The proposed new "24" is not genre, and it doesn’t deal with a pandemic.

“I think that partly what is exciting is, we’re opening up the possibility of it being anything where that 24-hour clock is at the most critical period of a story, so I don’t want to limit them,” Walden said after the session. “It can only be an action-oriented show, maybe not. It can only be an emotional thing. The opportunity is for them to think their biggest thoughts.”





Walden also was asked whether they want the new reboot to be a commentary on the new administration, something the original series had done.

“I would not want it to go straight at that,” she said. “I really frankly think people are sick of it, and that great creators find way to capture the tone of the nation and weave that into a story that’s not head-on, so I would hope to be able to capture in a way that 24 has historically, the tone of the nation, of the viewing audience and whether that’s through points of view of different characters, I can tell you it won’t be about an election, it won’t be about the current administration, it won’t be that head-on.”





Walden also talked about the recent decision to cancel "24: Legacy" after one season.

“The more we thought about it, it felt like where we left off, to continue to tell stories about these exact characters in the exact same work environment, it felt very similar to the original series,” she said.

http://deadline.com/2017/08/24-reboot-new-incarnation-franchise-non-ctu-fox-1202144832/