Spoilers and news for the hit FOX television show 24
Although 24 may be over, it seems like other television dramas will be making use of the real-time gimmick. The NCIS: Los Angeles Season 3 premiere titled “Lange, H.” will play out in real time, 24-style, according to a tweet from TV Line’s Matt Mitovich.
NCIS: LA season 3 is currently scheduled to premiere September 20, 2011 on CBS.
Source: Twitter
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Update: Netflix has signed a new multi-year deal with FOX, so 24 is back on the service. More details here.
According to Instant Watcher which uses the Netflix API, the first seven seasons of 24 are being pulled from the service on April 1st (exactly one year after they were added). If you were planning on doing a rewatch, now would be a good time to do so as they’ll be gone in just a little over three weeks.
This appears to be a FOX thing as Arrested Development, Bones, Firefly, Dollhouse, King of the Hill, Lie To Me, Prison Break, The X-Files and other FOX series are also expiring on the same date. The eighth season of 24 which went up on Netflix last month appears to be unaffected.
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Hit ABC series Castle aired a 24 style episode last night in which the characters were tasked with finding a dirty bomb set to go off in New York City that same day. Castle tells his teenage daughter to leave the city but warns her not to call her boyfriend as word may spread and cause mass panic. Sound familiar yet?
A ruthless Homeland Security Agent (played by guest star Adrian Pasdar) repeatedly screamed out classic Jack Bauer catchphrase “WHERE IS THE BOMB?!” while aggressively interrogating a terrorist suspect. And if the 24 homages weren’t already obvious, two characters mentioned were named “Evan Bauer” and “Jack Cochran” (a reference to Jack Bauer and 24 producers Evan Katz & Robert Cochran). Nice!
You can watch the full episode (if you’re in the US) embedded above courtesy of Hulu.
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As promised, the eighth and final season of 24 has went live on Netflix Instant Watch today, just two months after the DVD release. This addition of 24 Season 8 to Netflix streaming now makes the entire 24 series available on Netflix Instant Watch.
Like the previous five seasons and Redemption, Netflix offers 24 Season 8 in high-definition. Here’s the page to watch 24 Season 8 on Netflix.
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24 Season 8 is arriving on Netflix instant streaming on February 12th, just two months after its December 14th retail release. It’s been in high demand on Netflix with a “Very long wait” time so I’m sure this will make many people happy.
This addition will make the entire series available on Netflix for streaming. The past seven seasons were put on the service last April along with the two-hour television movie “24: Redemption” (which is listed as the first episode on the 24 Season 7 page). [click to continue…]
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24 came in seventh place on TorrentFreak’s Top 10 Most Pirated TV-Shows of 2010 with an estimated 2,240,000 downloads from BitTorrent.
Other TV series making the top ten list include Lost, Dexter, House, True Blood, Glee, The Big Bang Theory, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, and Family Guy.
TorrentFreak notes that the percentage of television downloaders from the United States has declined in recent years due to alternative legal viewing options such as Hulu.
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Congratulations to 24 fans Kevin Coon, Victor Lopez, and Farris Hodo for breaking the Guinness World Record for longest television. All three contestants surpassed the previous record of 86 hours of consecutive television watching held by Efraïm van Oeveren of the Netherlands.
These hardcore fans managed to watch a whopping five seasons of 24 back-to-back and perhaps could have lasted longer, but unfortunately the event had to come to a close. All three remaining participants were awarded the $10,000 grand prize and the Complete 24 Series DVD box set.
As Kiefer Sutherland said, if anyone could beat the record, it’s 24 fans. And they proved it today. Great job guys – Jack Bauer would be proud!
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Mary Lynn Rajskub is interviewed by Blockbuster UK about her role as Chloe O’Brian in the 24 series and taking over CTU. Loved the part where she jokes “How come when I get to be boss, it’s the last season? Finally I get to take over and they just pull the plug!”
YouTube Link: 24 Season 8 Interview – Mary Lynn Rajskub
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On November 6th in 2001, 24 premiered and changed television forever. Happy anniversary and thanks for the years of great memories (which will hopefully continue on the big-screen)! Here’s one of the very first 24 promos:
YouTube Link: Original 24 Season One Series Premiere Fox Promo (thanks Hendrix47)
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24 has made LA Time’s list of “TV’s top 10 moments of the first 10 months of 2010“.
The clock stopped ticking for Jack Bauer on a sad spring day when Fox announced that “24″ would end its groundbreaking stint on television at the end of the season. The Kiefer Sutherland-led drama concluded at the end of its eighth day with an emotional but hopeful ending that let viewers know that someday we’ll see Jack Bauer again. (Nice and big on a movie screen!) The finale aired in May, but our mourning began in March.
Thanks PDFierro for the heads up!
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Well that was fast. The official 24 website has been taken down on August, 24th – precisely three months after the series finale aired on television. There hasn’t even been any kind of “thank you for the support” message to 24 fans, the site was just deleted and all that’s left is a 404 “page not found” error message.
The 24 message boards will remain online up until September 15th after which they will be shut down too. So there’s a little under three weeks to say your goodbyes there.
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One of my favorite scenes in the 24 series has made Entertainment Weekly’s “20 of the Most Disturbing TV Scenes Ever” list at number 18 of 21.
JACK KEEPS HIS HEAD AND TAKES SOMEONE ELSE’S
Jack Bauer has always espoused an ends-justify-the-means philosophy but we really didn’t start to get it until that second season when he executed lowlife Marshall Green and decapitated his corpse to help establish cred. Heroic? Not so much. Just disturbing. —Abby West
Source: Entertainment Weekly – 20 of the Most Disturbing TV Scenes Ever
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Here’s a lengthy audio interview (30 minutes, 26 seconds) from NPR with 24 showrunner and executive producer Howard Gordon. This is a really great listen if you have the time – he explains a lot of the writing decisions made this year.
Source: Counting Down The Final Minutes Of ’24′: NPR
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Jim Halterman: You’ve worked on ‘Lost,’ ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Angel’ before ’24.’ Since those were very different genres, how did you make that transition?
David Fury: It was definitely a big difference going to ’24′ from the others shows I had been on. ’24′ is a runaway train of action, conspiracies with interweaving in [and] it was a challenge. They brought me in to try to find the more human stories within all the action and to try to track and find emotional life in these characters even while they’re disparaging orders in CTU. By the time I came on in year 5 of ’24,’ Jack had been through so much. One of the reasons I was there – [Co-Creator/Executive Producer] Joel Surnow told me – was they had watched one of my ‘Lost’ episodes and I did so much with nothing. What he was referring to was there was no real plot in the elements of ‘Lost.’ It might just be a scene between two characters and he found that compelling.
JH: How’s the process been with ‘Terra Nova’ after spending so much time on ’24?’
DF: It’s pretty amazing after five years to go back to writing a script of a different kind. I’ve been stuck writing in the real time of ’24′ and to be able to use flashbacks, time cuts, being able to add different perspectives… it’s almost like relearning the craft of writing because ’24′ beat it out of me.
Full interview and source: Futon Critic
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Cochran, who left the series during Season 6, and executive producer Howard Gordon, who ran it since early in the first season, sat down with The Wrap to choose the 24 greatest moments in the “24” pantheon, presented here in chronological order.
1. Voice-over
SEASON 1 | Episode 1 | Date: Nov. 6, 2001
The first episode begins with words on a screen and the low-key voice of Special Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland): “The following takes place between midnight and 1 a.m. on the day of the California presidential primary. Events occur in real time.”Those last four simple words signified a historic experiment in TV storytelling. Never before or since has a series taken place without cutting ahead or flashing back in time.
Check out the other 23 moments at the link below.
Source: The Wrap
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