Stop all the clocks, as W. H. Auden once said.Production has once again been delayed on FOX's real-time thriller 24, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Shooting was slated to begin on the seventh season of 24 on August 27th but has been pushed back until September 10th in order for the writing staff on the series to stockpile a number of scripts.
It's the second delay for 24 this season (production was originally meant to resume in late July) as the series' producers jettisoned a storyline that would have been set in Africa and have scrambled to find a new overarching plot for Jack Bauer. (What is certain, however, is that there will be no CTU this season.)
Stay tuned as this story develops, but it's not a good sign for a series to scramble like this (even when the launch date isn't until January), especially following a season that critics and viewers alike agreed was seriously lackluster.
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So far Fox has lost me on two series, between this and the fact that Prison Break ended with Michael back in prison, Fox's stock just keeps dropping in my book, and they really have no new series I want to watch. (And I might still be stinging from the canceling of Drive, which brought back memories of Wonderfalls, The Inside, and ones of other series I loved)
I guess I'll be watching House, and the other networks this upcoming season.