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[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Thanks to ivysaur12 who posted this in the other TV Cancellation thread

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/24-eyes-return-as-limited-series-on-fox-kiefer-sutherland-in-talks/

The clock may start ticking again at Fox. I’ve learned that the network is looking to bring back signature real-time drama 24 as a limited series. Kiefer Sutherland is in early talks to reprise his Emmy-winning role as Agent Jack Bauer. No deals are in place, but Fox is looking to do 24 as part of its recent push in limited event series. Since 24 ended its Emmyw-winning 8-season run on Fox in 2010, there has been an effort to continue the story in a feature, which never took off. I hear the idea is to start from scratch with a new story arc that will likely be supervised by former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon, who is under a deal at 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behidd 24.

 

[Batman]

Yes.

 

[infiniteloop]

Hmmm

 

[BigBoss]

I'm crying tears of joy.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Why not? We haven't gotten through the entire cast of Robocop quite yet.

 

[strafer]

OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

 

[i-Lo]

He's finished voice acting near infinite pages of MGSV already?

 

[reilo]

I was just thinking the other day how I missed having a show like 24 on tv.

 

[BigJonsson]

PLEASE HAPPEN!

 

[stn]

Let's do it! Focus strictly on Jack. Make him face some enemy that can provide him with an emotional and physical threat. No obvious plot-twists. Maybe make it in a new location? England? Paris? This could be really good.

 

[sarcastor]

are we talking one 2 hour movie? 13 episodes? full season? wtf? I need to know!

DAMMIT CHLOE!

Let's do it! Focus strictly on Jack. Make him face some enemy that can provide him with an emotional and physical threat. No obvious plot-twists. Maybe make it in a new location? England? Paris? This could be really good.

if there were no subplots and moles, the season would last like 4 hours.

 

[Conor 419]

Meh 24's gone too deep, let Jack have peace.

 

[Krowley]

I am in favor of this.

 

[BigJonsson]

Kim Bauer will hunt down everyone who talks shit about Dion Phaneuf

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

are we talking one 2 hour movie? 13 episodes? full season? wtf? I need to know!

DAMMIT CHLOE!



if there were no subplots and moles, the season would last like 4 hours.

Well, it is a limited series if it happens.

 

[ivysaur12]

I love Alex Kerkovich, but please, no Kim Bauer.

 

[Dany]

Please yes!

 

[PhoenixDark]

Honestly I'd rather have the show go to Netflix, but this will do. Hype.

 

[wenis]

I was just thinking the other day how I missed having a show like 24 on tv.

It's called Nikita.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

I love Alex Kerkovich, but please, no Kim Bauer.

Well, if Happy Endings doesn't get a happy ending, she may be looking for a job...

It's called Nikita.

This

 

[ivysaur12]

Well, if Happy Endings doesn't get a happy ending, she may be looking for a job...

This isn't a series, just a mini. Those don't take very long to shoot.

 

[jb1234]

I don't know. Like most long-running shows, it was running out of steam before it finally ended. What more could they do?

 

[Sn4ke_911]

YEEES, PLEASE BE TRUE!

 

[Thezez]

Yes please thank you very much.

 

[strafer]

I have missed Kiefer.

 

[Chopper]

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...

The film's not happening?

 

[wenis]

I don't know. Like most long-running shows, it was running out of steam before it finally ended. What more could they do?

They could head down the direction that the DVD movie did and make it a set scenario that only lasts 6 episodes or so. I'd enjoy that.

 

[NathanMcMahon]

Limited? so "12"

 

[Escape Goat]

It's called Nikita.

If 24 were a CW show with a budget of 200 bucks.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

If 24 were a CW show with a budget of 200 bucks.

And yet was still fucking awesome.

 

[ivysaur12]

Limited? so "12"

Like, 4 episodes.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I am very okay with that. Season 8 was actually a pretty good return to form considering the mediocre seasons that preceded it.

 

[strafer]

Palmer needs to return.

 

[Escape Goat]

And yet was still fucking awesome.

I used to think so now its just a copy of Alias and other (and better) spy shows. Its a bunch of sexy 22 year olds running the world's most deadly super secret black ops program. Its about as believable as Joss Whedon's Initiative.

 

[kingocfs]

Fuck it, let's do it

 

[katsubento]

Jack back? Hell yes!!!!!

 

[metsallica]

I will not get excited.
I will not get excited.
I will not get excited.

 

[Raxus]

I love Alex Kerkovich, but please, no Kim Bauer.

Same. Granted I would love to hear the Cougar song in Happy Endings or Alex eating a cougar. Why? Because that is funny.

 

[DrForester]

They still have 4 Star Trek Doctors to blow up!

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

this is the bigger news announcement.

as part of its recent push in limited event series

Shows are so much better when they don't have to do 22 episodes a season. 13 can even be too much.

 

[Tampinha]

TELL ME WHERE IS IT
DAMMIT

 

[wenis]

If 24 were a CW show with a budget of 200 bucks.

24 wishes it could have been as consistently well written like Nikita is. As for the budget, Nikita does fine, the big impractical explosions are bad, but for the most part things are grounded enough that the stakes don't get too crazy for the budget to take a hit.

plus the female cast of Nikita > all the females in 24.

 

[Snowden's Secret]

This is the most hyped I've been in years.

 

[Shadow780]

Merge with The Following and create the biggest NOFUCKSGIVEN show ever.

 

[Sean]

Holy shit.

24 and Jack Bauer back on our TV screens, and without all the filler that leads to goofy subplots? Holy shit.

This is the most exciting TV news in the past several years.

 

[PhoenixDark]

I don't know. Like most long-running shows, it was running out of steam before it finally ended. What more could they do?

 

[Dany]

Like, 4 episodes.

So would the new show be called 4?

 

[strafer]

Holy shit.

24 and Jack Bauer back on our TV screens, and without all the filler that leads to goofy subplots? Holy shit.

This is the most exciting TV news in the past several years.

dat Renee moment

I cried.

 

[ivysaur12]

Same. Granted I would love to hear the Cougar song in Happy Endings or Alex eating a cougar. Why? Because that is funny.

Apparently the pitched an idea where Alex is deathly afraid of cougars (as in, old women who have sex with young men) but either Sony or ABC dinged it.

 

[PhoncipleBone]

Palmer needs to return.