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24 fans don't have to wait until January [Update] TV - 24
Thu, Mar 6th, 2008 | 1:08pm | TV - 24

Update: FOX officially confirmed the prequel news and updated the date of airing to November.

Yep, the writers' strike pushed Season 7 of 24 all the way to next January, instead of beginning this January. That's not changing, but in the fall there's going to be a 2-hour prequel movie which they're casting for right now according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The producers of the Emmy-winning series are developing a two-hour "prequel" to the upcoming seventh season. The movie, designed to bridge the two-year gap between Seasons 6 and 7, is targeted to air in the fall, leading to the January return of the real-time drama. On Wednesday, "24" producers began securing the show's core cast members for the film.

At the end of the writers strike, there were rumblings about a possible split of the seventh season into two parts to air in the fall and in midseason. But Fox was quick to put those rumors to rest, reiterating that the show's scheduling pattern will remain intact with a January launch.

The "24" writing team is back at work, with filming on the remaining episodes of the seventh season slated to begin in April. Missing from the writers room is the series co-creator/executive producer Joel Surnow, who left at the end of the strike. Since the fifth season, "24" has been run by exec producer Howard Gordon.
Hopefully this is good news, though a single, two-hour show/movie format will probably be weird. I don't know how they could tell a story in that amount of time without it either being a lackluster plot or less Jack Bauer ass-kicking. But I'm keeping my hopes up, and it's still better than nothing until January.

Plus it will probably help explain the dramatic shift to Washington. Though that makes me wonder how they were going to explain that originally, when this 2-hour prequel wasn't in the works.

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    Posted by: dave on Mar 6th, 2008 | 1:28pm

    One thing I've always thought was kind of weird, is that movies are this big production where they have $150M budgets and you have to pay 10 bucks to go see and all that, and they're about 2 hours. And yet they can rake in huge money.

    And tv is free and can be the same amount of time, and doesn't make nearly that kind of money-at least I don't think it's worth that much to the networks, I could be wrong.

    But say I'm making Lost or 24 or something. Why wouldn't I want to turn 2 tv episodes into a $100M movie? And I don't just mean for established shows.

    Why would I want to create a new series and write 13 episodes, when I could write 2 or 3 movies?

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    Posted by: niraj on Mar 6th, 2008 | 1:52pm

    I think with TV you've got far more time to develop a story and characters and be subtle about a lot of things because you're not rushing to complete the story in 2 or 3 hours.

    And going into Season 5 they had sold over 2 million DVDs of the first 4 seasons, at $35 to $45 a pop. So they're making a lot off of that, and probably a lot off of the ads. So it's a high-cost production but they're making a ton of money in return.

    Plus I'd think in TV shows with a lot more set reuse and other reuse, so you're not spending a ton more than a movie in order to produce another 5 hours of content. For instance, you may use the same setting across 3 different episodes, or return to it in a later episode.

    That said, I'd agree that your statement would be true for this prequel....this is literally being made like a movie would be in terms of length, cost, etc. So why not actually make it a movie? Maybe it's the marketing cost that's the prohibitive factor.



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