Comments on: What happened to ‘24?’

By: race

race — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:54:06 +0000

yeah, wtf is going on with 24,, if you go to youtube, you can see un-aired shows that are from next season and are showing in other countries

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:05:57 +0000

I didn’t see a single commercial advertising the beginning of this year’s season. I didn’t know if it was on or had been cancelled. Last season was a bit lame and I was hoping to see a revamped season this year.

By: howard hannum

howard hannum — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:36:13 +0000

too many good people killed off for no other reason than to just prove that no one’s job is safe and to be unpredictable; and that could be the show’s down fall….edgar and tony and curtis should never have been killed off and we were just starting to warm up to dessler and they kill her off…….perhaps the most annoying part of the show is that they send in 2 crews to converge on a suspect and go through this elaborate scheme with satalite back up and roof top guards and a chopper and all exits covered and then you see the bad guy escape through the floor to an underneath tunnel and outside the perimeter; that’s the completely bogus part of it!!!

By: rkg

rkg — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:01:52 +0000

and it doesn’t help that most networks are liberal and run by Jews

By: Sali

Sali — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:46:01 +0000

Get this show up and running soon! I came in on the last 2 seasons, so no repeats for me. I love this show…

By: Janet Thwaits

Janet Thwaits — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:53:28 +0000

I liked to watch 24.It was tense and exciting and the good guys won. Iwish that were true in the real world

By: zanna

zanna — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:13:14 +0000

I loved season 4 and 5. I thought they were AMAZING. (i thought 4 was better) Season 6 was good…..but is was soooooo predictable! I figured out what was going to happen….I watch LOST also and what i love about that show is that it is soooo UNpredictable. Anyone could die at any time. With 24 you know who will live and die. I thought the characters were so weak in season 6. the relationships within CTU was all the same. I can’t wait for season 7. I watched a preview for it…..what does it mean CTU is gone???????
People always say that 24 is not relistic but thats not what TV is for.

By: Sonny

Sonny — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:21:08 +0000

“24″ is one of my favorite series on an otherwise boring and inane medium. The only comment I have with the show is to suggest CTU do a better job of screening its employees. There are too many whose background should have been investigated more carefully.

I can hardly wait for Season #7.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:58:33 +0000

when does the 7th season of “24″ start? and when is the timeslot?

By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 03 May 2007 19:03:53 +0000

Time slot? Good one.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 May 2007 14:12:11 +0000

Here’s what turned me off 24, after watching every episode, every season and the first few episodes this season.

Several weeks ago, I attended a night of short films at a bar in Hollywood, and one of the films shown was by a recurring cast member of 24. The film involved kidnapping and torture of people with foreign accents. It was just like 24, but without the jokes.

I’ve always had difficulty with the torture scenes in the show–I intellectualized them as necessary for furthering the plot in this type of drama. But after seeing someone who works on the show internalize the show’s paranoid worldview (and I generally mean paranoid in a good way–until now it’s been a positive for me as a fan of the show) to the point where this worldview is the basis for said person’s(expensive) personal project, I haven’t been able to watch the show again.

My DVR still records it, but I’ve begun deleting them.

By: The Tony

The Tony — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:49:37 +0000

I hear a lot of reports about how conservative types are pulling the string behind the scenes at 24.

Clearly, they’re just out of touch with what America cares about right now — Cliff Clavin dancing and Sanjaya Malakar.

Oh, and Heroes is amazing. 24’s just another day…

By: Hussman

Hussman — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:40:47 +0000

As a devoted ‘24′ who even liked Season 3, I will admit this season is a bit weak and even repetative, but after Season 4 & 5 being as incredible as they were, it would be very hard to top that. Remember, this show won the Emmy for Season 5… odds are it’ll be back like gangbusters next season, though I think season 8 should be their last.

By: Steve Safran

Steve Safran — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:52:33 +0000

What you really have here is the fundamental problem with American broadcast television mentality: the inability to have only a few seasons of a successful show. There are shows for which a 1-2 season story arc would be perfect, yet because of our system, the networks will always insist on running those shows into the ground. Every successful show will eventually collapse (with a few rare, rare exceptions) because of this.

I don’t care about a show being realistic. I watch TV to escape reality. I care about good storylines. And you can’t watch shows like “Lost,” “Prison Break,” and “24″ without thinking “They’re not really going to give us a satisfying conclusion until the end of the show’s run,” and we don’t know when that will be.

I don’t blame the show’s creators - I blame a system that takes a perfectly good idea for a one-season show and says “Great - can you give us 7 more just like it?”

The more we insist on crap, the more they’ll give us.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:48:42 +0000

Progammers for networks should, but probably never will, take note of two themes:

1) people hate it when their shows get repetitive (or worse, derivative of other shows)
2) people get interested in new things (we’re curious apes after all)

People switched to Heroes because it was new and different, and 24 was getting old and repetetive