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#1 Posted on | Instant Rating: 4.27
It's been a good run for Jack Bauer, but it's all over after this season


    Fox has officially stopped the clock on 24.

    The network announced Friday it has canceled the series, as first reported by USA TODAY. A victim of higher costs and declining ratings, 24 will end its run when the current eighth season concludes this spring.


You will be missed, Jack Bauer.


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#2 Posted on | Instant Rating: 2.40
One wonders if they'll kill Jack Bauer off in the series finale, make the jump to the big screen, or just end the franchise right here and now.



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#3 Posted on | Instant Rating: 6.34
From Entertainment Weekly (ausiellofiles.ew.com) March 12, 2010:
    Originally posted by Michael Ausiello
    24 may live to see another day after all.

    Multiple sources confirm to me exclusively that 20th Century Fox has approached NBC about picking up the series should Fox opt to cancel it — and the Peacock is considering it.

    A move to NBC — while still considered somewhat of a long shot given the hefty price tag — would likely delay 20th’s plans to launch a Jack Bauer film franchise. From a production standpoint, 24 execs have long maintained that it would be next to impossible to make a movie while the series was still on the air.





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#4 Posted on | Instant Rating: 8.86
That was two weeks ago - last night's news specifically mentioned that NBC wasn't going to be an option.

Here's the guy you quoted, Ausiello's post (ausiellofiles.ew.com).

Here's EW's news story which says NBC is not an option in the first paragraph: http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2010/03/26/24-to-end-this-season-film-version-in-the-works/

We ARE promised a future movie, so there's that.



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#5 Posted on | Instant Rating: 6.29
I'll miss it. I've enjoyed the last couple of seasons more than most I think. To be honest, season six was the only one that was really crappy, and even then there was some good stuff in there hidden amongst the pap.

There's a limit to what they can do with the formula though, so stopping at 8's probably the smart thing to do. I'd still totally watch a movie or two though.

Hopefully the last we saw of Tony won't be the last we see of Tony.
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#6 Posted on | Instant Rating: 10.00
This has been pretty well expected since the start of the season, I think everyone was just waiting to hear the official word.

24 stopped being an 'it' show right when they killed of Nina, and they started becoming a cliche of shock writing when they started off that season killing Tony & Michelle in first five minutes. The constraint never was as much the real time format but the shocking plot turns and deaths, which always had to get bigger and bigger. The snake devoured it's own tail.

Parts of this season have been really good (everything not involving Dana), but there's nothing here that would need to be on if there hadn't been all the seasons before it.



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#7 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.85
I'm going to miss this show, but it's time. I think once they did Season Five (and won the Emmys), doing the biggest of all possible villains (and Robocop! And the Warlock!), they'd hit that point where either they had to plan a real series finale, or just going to keep going through the motions until Fox said "stop." And here we are.

It's kind of sad, because this is the type of show that deserves a real series finale, but then again, they've probably already done it since they exhausted every possible idea over the last 8 seasons.

Still, hopefully Jack Bauer gets some closure and that they were expecting it enough to craft a good ending that can stand alone without a movie.

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#8 Posted on | Instant Rating: 5.69
    Originally posted by SKLOKAZOID
    I'm going to miss this show, but it's time. I think once they did Season Five (and won the Emmys), doing the biggest of all possible villains (and Robocop! And the Warlock!), they'd hit that point where either they had to plan a real series finale, or just going to keep going through the motions until Fox said "stop." And here we are.


Totally true. 24's heyday came when I was in college, and it was a HUGE favourite among students. Viewing parties, the whole deal. But that totally hit the wall once the sixth season came along and ruined the series. It just seemed to deflate everyone's interest in the show at the same time. That's a good point you made about how once Jack had taken on President Logan, you didn't really have anywhere else to go. (It also didn't help that having Jack's father and brother as the villains in S6 ended up being handled so poorly.) Plus, 24 was one of the few shows that had an entire season lost to the writer's strike, so that sixth season had an extra year to stick in people's minds.

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#9 Posted on | Instant Rating: 4.76
This season's subplot with Starbuck has been so mind numbingly frustrating and pointless, that I am almost glad to see it go. The Wife and I love Katee Sackhoff and Stephen Root, but every time they come on screen, we now groan. We cheered when she killed him, because at least oen of them was gone from the show. Her heel turn can't save her, either.

It had a great run, and unless they were willing to break from the 24 hour formula, the show was only going to get more and more stale.




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#10 Posted on | Instant Rating: 6.40
The 24 hour formula is great, the problem was the series staying wedded to Jack Bauer after day two or so. It could run and run if it dealt with a totally new locale/cast/situation each season.
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