Sure, there's all this excitement and conflict and action. But in this telemovie, it makes for a very compressed two hours.Īnd that's actually the weakness of this particular Jack Bauer adventure. Normally, when Jack Bauer is up against these sorts of problems, and odds, it makes for a very bad day. The other problem - and again, this is established at the very, very start - is that an army of tribal mercenaries aims to kidnap the boys in the camp and force them to act as soldiers, or walk through mine fields, or just be slaughtered later just for the fun of it. On this particular day - and I'm not giving anything away here, because it happens right at the start, a stranger shows up at the camp looking for Jack and causing problems. Jack, played by Kiefer Sutherland, is in Africa, hiding out from a bunch of people - including his own government - and working at a charity boys' school run by an old friend from Special Forces.
So while working on the next season, which wouldn't be televised until the show's usual midseason launch in January, the 24 folks decided to present a sort of bonus installment.Ĭonsider 24: Redemption, which premieres this weekend, a sequel to last year, and a prequel to next year. The shows that decided to wait and reboot this fall, like ABC's Pushing Daisies, didn't.įor 24, which dramatizes its action in hourly doses of real-time excitement, the producers decided they couldn't present a partial season of shows - for one thing, they'd have to call it 12 or 9, which somehow doesn't sound as cool.
When the writers' strike crippled TV production last season, the shows that rushed back into production afterward, like the procedurals and comedies on CBS, recovered nicely in the ratings. The Sopranos, over on cable, got away with it, but few shows do. Asking viewers to wait more than 18 months between seasons of a TV show, even if it's their favorite TV show, is asking a lot.
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