How Come No 24 Season 7 Preview?
02-07-08 | 04:31 PM
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I heard 24 WOULD start to air once the strike is over, if the strike does end within a week, I would expect a 2 night 4 episode premiere (like last season) mid to late March, and then end the show in the Summer. They would've had to delay the season anyways with Kiefer going to jail.
02-07-08 | 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by acdcrocks1980
I heard 24 WOULD start to air once the strike is over, if the strike does end within a week, I would expect a 2 night 4 episode premiere (like last season) mid to late March, and then end the show in the Summer. They would've had to delay the season anyways with Kiefer going to jail.
02-08-08 | 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
You mean the boss makes more than the workers? Amazing.
Studio management is not "the boss." Writers, actors, etc have contracts -- they are not employees the way you are, they are suppliers. They are not subservient, they are business partners.
02-08-08 | 01:41 PM
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I don't really see how they couldn't show the series this year. They could air it in the summer or the fall. Who says it HAS to air in the spring? I think they would be stupid to wait until January. What does that mean then, we all have to wait 2 years for season 7 and then if there's a season 8 we have to wait until January 2010?
02-08-08 | 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
And now you have explicitly stated what I suspected all along. You are just a sucker for hierarchy.
Guess that's a hierarchy.
For those that seemed to have missed all the news last year, here's a story from November about 24:
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - As the writers strike entered its third day Wednesday with no end in sight, Fox said it would not air "24" this season.
The seventh season of the hit real-time series was scheduled to begin in January, but producers had completed only about one-third of its 24-episode order as of last week.
"It's not a decision we wanted to make, but it's one based on how we feel the viewers expect us to schedule the show," said Preston Beckman, Fox's scheduling chief.
The decision to act quickly so early in the strike also was prompted by the large amounts of marketing money associated with the premieres of new series and the annual launch of "24." The network began airing promos for the upcoming season of "24" during the World Series and on a big screen in Times Square.
"Had we delayed executing and implementing of a strike schedule, it could've cost us a lot of money," Beckman said.
"24" started production late, and was affected by the recent wildfires. The show's star, Kiefer Sutherland, is also scheduled to do a stint in jail later this year in connection with a drunk-driving conviction.
The high-profile new drama "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," originally slated to run in tandem with "24," will now premiere on Sunday, January 13, and will air in "24's" Monday 9 p.m. slot, following "Prison Break" and the reality series "When Women Ruled the World."
"Women," about educated and independent women ruling over a group of unsuspecting men, is one of two reality series Fox is planning to launch midseason, along with "The Moment of Truth," a show featuring people being administered a lie detector test to be hosted by Mark L. Walberg.
With "House" running out of original episodes, "Hell's Kitchen" will land the plum post-"American Idol" Tuesday 9 p.m. slot beginning April 1.
Fox's midseason schedule also includes new scripted series "The Return of Jezebel James," "Unhitched," "New Amsterdam" and "Canterbury's Law."
The seventh season of the hit real-time series was scheduled to begin in January, but producers had completed only about one-third of its 24-episode order as of last week.
"It's not a decision we wanted to make, but it's one based on how we feel the viewers expect us to schedule the show," said Preston Beckman, Fox's scheduling chief.
The decision to act quickly so early in the strike also was prompted by the large amounts of marketing money associated with the premieres of new series and the annual launch of "24." The network began airing promos for the upcoming season of "24" during the World Series and on a big screen in Times Square.
"Had we delayed executing and implementing of a strike schedule, it could've cost us a lot of money," Beckman said.
"24" started production late, and was affected by the recent wildfires. The show's star, Kiefer Sutherland, is also scheduled to do a stint in jail later this year in connection with a drunk-driving conviction.
The high-profile new drama "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," originally slated to run in tandem with "24," will now premiere on Sunday, January 13, and will air in "24's" Monday 9 p.m. slot, following "Prison Break" and the reality series "When Women Ruled the World."
"Women," about educated and independent women ruling over a group of unsuspecting men, is one of two reality series Fox is planning to launch midseason, along with "The Moment of Truth," a show featuring people being administered a lie detector test to be hosted by Mark L. Walberg.
With "House" running out of original episodes, "Hell's Kitchen" will land the plum post-"American Idol" Tuesday 9 p.m. slot beginning April 1.
Fox's midseason schedule also includes new scripted series "The Return of Jezebel James," "Unhitched," "New Amsterdam" and "Canterbury's Law."
02-08-08 | 08:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
Well, if there was nobody running the studios, there wouldn't be any studios. If there's no studios making tv and movies, there's no need for writers.
Guess there isn't a hierarchy.
02-08-08 | 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
Well, if there was no writers, there wouldn't be any tv and movies. If there's no tv and movies to make, there's no need for studios.
Guess there isn't a hierarchy.
Guess there isn't a hierarchy.
TV ratings are at an all time low, movie ticket and illegal movie downloads are also at an all time low.
02-09-08 | 01:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
No 24 this season.
02-09-08 | 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
OK, we have the studios but the studios only put out completely unscripted reality tv shows and movies at this point. Writers aren't needed so they work on plays and don't make nearly as much as they did before.
TV ratings are at an all time low, movie ticket and illegal movie downloads are also at an all time low.
Even if you were right, it would only serve to support the writers who want their fair share of new media like DVDs and downloads. Do you know how much the Battlestar Galactica writers got for the "webisodes" between S2 and S3? NOTHING. You seem to think they should be happy with that. What are you, a freaking commie?
02-09-08 | 03:25 PM
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The strike is over: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-m...,7005410.story The writers may be back to work as early as Monday. If I were Fox I'd start airing the filmed episodes soon, and filming the unfilmed ones ASAP.
02-09-08 | 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
And that justifies the writers being content with a smaller piece of the pie, how? Seems to me your argument WAS they were being greedy, now your argument is that during the strike they didn't have an income. Duh...
Do you think you are cherry picking stats to prove a point? You aren't doing a good job of it. Domestic box office gross was up almost 5% to $9.66B in 2007.
Even if you were right, it would only serve to support the writers who want their fair share of new media like DVDs and downloads. Do you know how much the Battlestar Galactica writers got for the "webisodes" between S2 and S3? NOTHING. You seem to think they should be happy with that. What are you, a freaking commie?
Do you think you are cherry picking stats to prove a point? You aren't doing a good job of it. Domestic box office gross was up almost 5% to $9.66B in 2007.
Even if you were right, it would only serve to support the writers who want their fair share of new media like DVDs and downloads. Do you know how much the Battlestar Galactica writers got for the "webisodes" between S2 and S3? NOTHING. You seem to think they should be happy with that. What are you, a freaking commie?
Originally Posted by The Monkees
Right. But that doesn't mean they won't air in the summer or fall. I think it would be a major mistake to wait until January of next year. They could start filming episodes as soon as the writers crank out the first new episode to film and have the episodes done for the fall and show their 24 consecutive episodes and still have time to work on the 8th season or whatever. Of course that does seem like a lot of work.... Still I think that is a mistake to wait another year. I haven't seen a new episode of 24 since May of 2007, so now I have to wait until January 2009? I think they may lose a lot of viewers waiting that long.
02-09-08 | 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by jmj713
The strike is over: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-m...,7005410.story The writers may be back to work as early as Monday. If I were Fox I'd start airing the filmed episodes soon, and filming the unfilmed ones ASAP.
02-10-08 | 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
Sure dude, whatever you say. If you have to result to insults to get your point across, I'll just talk to the grown-ups instead.
02-10-08 | 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
You could only have been insulted if you really did believe that the BSG writers should be paid nothing for their work, and of course, aren't a communist. The cognitive dissonance caused by playing whose the pinko melted your brain.
02-10-08 | 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Mister Peepers
Sure dude, whatever you say. I didn't realize they worked for free before and had everything provided to them by the state.
02-10-08 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah-Wren Ryel
A glib and meaningless response, pretty much the sign of someone who has figured out they are wrong but aren't man enough to admit it.
02-14-08 | 10:13 PM
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Well not till January!
NEW YORK — Fans of the Fox drama "24" will have to wait until next January to see Jack Bauer again, this television season's most prominent casualty of the Hollywood writers strike. The network has committed to air a full season on consecutive weeks, and had been planning to start last month.
But if it had started airing new episodes soon, the season finale would not have taken place until the summer, when TV networks rarely show their high-profile programs.
Even though eight episodes for this season had already been filmed before the beginning of the writers strike, producers would have had to ramp up production soon to complete the season.
A January 2009 start seemed the best way to comply with viewers' wishes that a season's episodes run without interruption to conclusion, Fox said on Thursday.
The company that produces the series, 20th Century Fox Television, also confirmed that creator Joel Surnow was leaving as one of the executive producers. Fox is owned by News Corp.
Surnow told Daily Variety that he had "decided it was time to see if there were other opportunities I wanted to pursue."
But if it had started airing new episodes soon, the season finale would not have taken place until the summer, when TV networks rarely show their high-profile programs.
Even though eight episodes for this season had already been filmed before the beginning of the writers strike, producers would have had to ramp up production soon to complete the season.
A January 2009 start seemed the best way to comply with viewers' wishes that a season's episodes run without interruption to conclusion, Fox said on Thursday.
The company that produces the series, 20th Century Fox Television, also confirmed that creator Joel Surnow was leaving as one of the executive producers. Fox is owned by News Corp.
Surnow told Daily Variety that he had "decided it was time to see if there were other opportunities I wanted to pursue."
02-15-08 | 07:14 AM
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So the question remains, do they scrap the 8 episodes they did and start fresh? I would hope they still ramp up production now and just finish the season and just hold it for Jan.
02-15-08 | 07:52 AM
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Why do they have to wait till January? Why not start in the spring, the summer or the fall? They have eight episodes done. That's eight weeks already. They can start filming now and have new episodes ready to air as the first eight wind down.
02-15-08 | 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jmj713
Why do they have to wait till January? Why not start in the spring, the summer or the fall? They have eight episodes done. That's eight weeks already. They can start filming now and have new episodes ready to air as the first eight wind down.
02-15-08 | 01:44 PM
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They can't do it in fall because then you get into Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year when people are out and about or visiting relatives.
02-15-08 | 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
They can't do it in fall because then you get into Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year when people are out and about or visiting relatives.
plus baseball playoffs/world series which last into november