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Yay!! Glad they started filming already. Jon Cassar said on Twitter they were starting on Sunday, but hey the sooner the better.

I like how everything is an "event series" on broadcast when it's not the traditional 22 or more episodes.

Jack taking a smoke break on the set.

Damn, Keifer's looking haggard. Looks more like a stunt double than him.

The production photos from the previous page are not from the actual filming of the season. According to Cassar on Twitter, they are from a promotional video shoot. Principal photography begins Sunday as I already mentioned.

Hopefully we'll see the promo during the Super Bowl.

FOX should do some kind of recap show leading up to the new episodes - I have all the seasons on DVD, but don't have the time (pardon the pun) to watch them all before this comes back. I honestly can't remember what happened when we last left Jack, other than he was on the run again.

What's the point of that? Unless they're going to bring back old plot-points (which would be almost a spoiler if presented in a recap), there's absolutely no reason, since each season was basically self-contained.

Was Sutherland really only 34 or so when 24 first premiered? That seems crazy.

yea...and something like 18/20 years have passed in the timeline... so he is supposed to be like pushing 60 now?

http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline


This is what I saw from the 24 wiki page. Jack previously mentioned he was born in 1966.


Season 1: Early 2000's (Election Year)

Season 2: Mid 2001 (Approx 18 months later)

24: The Game: Around 2003

Season 3: Approx 2004 (3 years after season 2)

Season 4: Approx 2006 (18 months after season 3)

Season 5: Approx 2007

Season 6: Approx 2009

24: Redemption: 44 months after season 6. Approx 2012?

Season 7: Jack returns from Africa. Approx 2013

Season 8: Approx 18 months after season 7. Around 2014

Live Another Day: 4 years after the events of season 8. Around 2018


Jack would be roughly 52 years old.

Howard Gordon and company have said it isn't mandatory to have watched season 8 to watch Live Another Day. However, I'm sure that most of the audience who does watch this in May will already have been long time 24 fans. Doubtful anyone tries to watch this cold turkey without having seen past seasons.

How old was Kim supposed to be? I thought she was 18 in the first season, but if Jack was 34, then that means he was 16 when he had her? Kim was working at CTU in season 3, and she would have to be 21 or 22 then because she would have to have a college degree by then.

He's 36 in Day 1 and she was 16. And if you think she got the job based on education and not who her daddy is then I have a cougar to sell you.

http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Bauer

Bauer was born 2/18/66

He was 34 in Day 1 since it was election year (around 2000)

Same source says he was 36 on Day 1. There always been back and forth on when Day 1 actually takes place.

I know her dad's influence is 99% of the reason she got the job at CTU. Still though there are the most basic of qualifications, and I doubt CTU would hire anyone without a college degree. She could have been a C student with a Liberal Arts degree, and Jack could have gotten her the job just so long as she actually had a degree.

http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Kim_Bauer

It wouldn't make sense for season 1 to be set in 2002. David Palmer was running for President and it would have to be an even year (2000) in the current system.

Season 3 Palmer was up for re-election if you recall, which would make that around 2004 and he decided to not run again.

When we pick things up in season 4, John Keeler was already President.

I'm just taking this straight from the wiki:
http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline

Maybe in the 24-verse they are on a different election year schedule.

Hmmm, some very inconsistent writing on that 24 wiki page.

I read each Day synopsis for it's timeline and it doesn't jive at all with that list of the Presidents and their time in office.

It was inconsistent writing on the writer's part as well. The big thing that throws you is when you found out Jack's birthday year.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/step...e-another-day/

Stephen Fry was announced today as playing the British Prime Minister.

Yeah, that timeline is crap. I think by the time season 7 ended (and based on real election cycles) it was around 2020 or something crazy.

Wasn't John Keeler removed from office by having his plane crash into a mountainside or something?