Final episode of 24 airs May 24

[SamRoc]

I love this show, have been watching from the beginning. Its sad that such a well written, well acted show won't be on anymore.



http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertai...rland-eyes-24-movie-after-TV-series-cancelled

 

[dahirsh]

 

[SamRoc]

I coudn't agree more!

 

[comicguy]

No other show on television keeps me so engaged and engrossed. This is the only show that I watch "live". No DVRing 24 for me!!!

With cancelation comming up at the end of the season, I would predict so big things happening within the context of the show!!!

According to what I read, we might get some 24 movies on the big screen. That would be awesome but I would still miss my weekly dose on the "small screen"


Warning Rant ahead:
I really think one of the reasons 24 works so well, it does not have any breaks from the time it starts in Jan until it ends in May. I wish the other networks would follow this, it would keep viewers tuned in more regularly. A good example is NCIS, I love this show as well but since it started back in Jan after the holidays, we got three new, two repeats, two new, one repeat, looks like this weeks will be a new episode again. No wonder viewers are always confused about when their favorite shows are on! Rant off

 

[bicker]

I look at it differently: '24' has had a good run. I absolutely hate it when a great show gets run into the ground. I want shows to run several years, and then come to a considered, satisfying ending. Quit while they're on top.

A good example of this is Numb3rs. It was a great show. Then it became a train wreck (literally -- the episode that really demonstrated how the producers and writers were grasping at straws was a show about a train wreck). I'm glad that Numb3rs recovered a little, and did provide us a finale worthy of the name, but all-in-all, I'd have preferred Numb3rs end two or three seasons ago, with the same final episode that they ended this, their probable-final season, with.

 

[bicker]

With regard to the rant about when episodes are scheduled: We viewers are really to blame for this. Too many of us don't sit down reliably every week, and indeed there are certain diversions that are sure to distract us away from any routine television-watching, such as preparing for the winter holidays, the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, March Madness, etc. If we are going to get distracted away from a program, for some weeks, then it really makes no sense to present new episodes those weeks, and that's especially true of series that rely on folks watching each episode in order.

Something like '24' can afford to do the straight run because they plan on making a lot of money on the DVDs. It's the one bright spot in an otherwise really hazardous path that producers of serialized dramas travel. Generally, fewer people are willing to put in the extra energy necessary to invest themselves in serialized dramas. However, those that do do tend to spend more-than-average on the back-end. Also, such series do tend to do a little better overseas.

There is also another problem with presenting television series straight-through: The television season runs September to May; starting a little after the beginning of the school-year in most of the country and ending a little before the end of the school-year in most of the country. However, even if we could get people to be more consistent, week-after-week, there simply isn't enough money there to make the high quality programming that we've come to expect, for 39 episodes per program.

 

[Carl]

I wasn't really into 24 at first, but I really have enjoyed it last year and this year. It keeps you riveted. Non stop action. I hate to see it go.

 

[tinatark]

I read that NBC is considering picking it up.

I hope they do, even with the "holes" in every episode! Come on, blondie cancelled satellite coverage and Jack was the only one who realized that someone was helping the terrorists? And doesn't her boss wonder why she keeps disappearing during a HUGE national crisis? Come on!

 

[rgf207]

I read that NBC is considering picking it up.

I hope they do, even with the "holes" in every episode! Come on, blondie cancelled satellite coverage and Jack was the only one who realized that someone was helping the terrorists? And doesn't her boss wonder why she keeps disappearing during a HUGE national crisis? Come on!

not to mention that she works for THE COUNTER TERRORIST UNIT and no-one bothered to check here background. Heck. I work for the federal government and we can't get a clearance if we pay our electric bill late

 

[BCV513]

It's still a good show, but not great the way it was in the earlier seasons. I'd rather see it go before it jumps the shark.

 

[kt_mom]

I hate to see this show go, it is my favorite. But it has gone downhill over the last couple of seasons. I wasn't sure this season was going to pick up at all but it finally has. Like another poster mentioned though, the holes are huge this season. And I don't think the characters are as good. The earlier seasons are definitely better.

 

[starrzone]

I hate to see this show go, especially since I've just "gotten into" it this season. SO convinced me to give it a chance and I love it . Glad to hear that the previous seasons are good, as I have 7 of them to catch up on!

*Great point about Dana/Jenny (the blonde one) being pretty well able to do what she wants at work, disappearing and then popping up again. My understanding is that ANYONE who works for the feds, especially in a security capacity, would have to go through some pretty restrictive background checks!

 

[dahirsh]

not to mention that she works for THE COUNTER TERRORIST UNIT and no-one bothered to check here background. Heck. I work for the federal government and we can't get a clearance if we pay our electric bill late

one word- Nina