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Well, this is certainly some interesting news. After being off the air for a couple years, the brass at Fox have reignited the phenomenon that is 24 for a 12-episode season next summer. Keifer Sutherland will return as Jack Bauer and hopefully having so much time off will have given them the creative spark necessary to make that show relevant again.
To be perfectly honest, I still feel like the first two seasons were the best. Those two seasons introduced the formula that they stuck to pretty religiously over the course of eight seasons. Many people thought the fifth season is one of the best, but there wasn't anything in that season that wasn't done better in the earlier seasons. Plus, the suspense and novelty was starting to wear off for me by that time, just as the rest of the population was discovering it.
The one thing that definitely seems great is the shortened season (which, if I had my way, all shows would only be 12 or 13 episodes), so they should be able to get to the point a lot more quickly than they otherwise could.
Expect to hear a lot more news over the next several months as the pieces get put together. Specifically a lot of "We're running out of time!" and "Dammit!" And hopefully some cougars. You can never have too many cougars on 24. Wait, no. Yes. Yes you can. One cougar. That is too many. (And for the unfamiliar, I'm not being ironic about this. I'm talking about a literal cougar. Not the old lady variety.)
24: Live Another Day will premiere on Fox next May.
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