Jack Bauer returns "24"

http://www.torontosun.com/2013/05/10/24-returning-for-limited-run

Hit action series 24 is returning to the small screen for a limited 12-episode run.

Reports recently surfaced online suggesting Kiefer Sutherland's famous counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer would be heading back to TV, and now executive producer David Fury has confirmed the news.

He posted a link on his Twitter.com page on Friday directing fans to a Deadline.com article about the supposed revival, and wrote, "Yep, I'm pulling double duty along w/ (with) (new pilot) TYRANT. Whoo & Hoo!"

Sutherland is said to be in talks to reprise his action-packed role for Fox network following the cancellation of his latest TV series, Touch, on Thursday.

The news will be warmly welcomed by 24 fans - plans to turn the drama into a movie have failed to come to fruition following the end of the show's eighth season in 2010, and director Antoine Fuqua recently suggested the film had been shelved.

24's revival comes as Bollywood star Anil Kapoor, who played Middle Eastern President Omar Hassan on the show in 2010, prepares to launch an Indian version of the series, which will be set in Mumbai.

 

The last couple of seasons were fairly weak and lacking in any real suspense, imo. I think they're going to have to really shake things up in order to pull this off. If they can't get Keifer on board, however, then they might as well forget about it.

 

Will it be renamed 12?

 

That shows Fox is really deseperate.
They should just kill off his character and give the
series the final rest it needs.

 

This show needs a major shakeup to be interesting again. I feel like we as a nation are past the whole torture porn, right-wing propaganda that the show became over the years.

 

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Never watched it the first time. I did try a few episodes, but it just never held my attention.

 

in order for this work it needs a major reboot to the dark side

 

Maybe the break has done them good and they come up with something fresh.

 

Ditto

 

This dude has the worst days. You would think that after the 4th really bad day that people would stay the f$%^ away from him.

 

Didn't he end up in a Chinese prison at the end of the last series? Or was that the one before?

 

Some folks never learn.

 

I think the one before but its all kinda hazy now.

 

I'm pretty sure they did something nasty to him. The US government always betrays him towards the end of the day.

 

That was the one before. Jack Bauer is shown walking away on some railroad tracks at the very end, just as the government comes in to arrest the President of the United States for her participation in a plot to kill an ex-President and pin it on some foreign terrorists.

Note that Sutherland's recent show, Touch, was just cancelled today. That's a show that kinda petered out and fell apart in the second season.

 

Yes, but just admit it--the show was REALLY entertaining.

 

that's great for the fans, but I could not get into this show.

 

I knew the bean counters would finally come to their senses. I can't wait.

 

I don't really understand what the motivation for this is. It's not like 24 is a show that was cancelled prematurely and has since developed a cult following, like Arrested Development. Seems to me it was pretty much agreed upon that the show had run its course, and probably a season or two beyond that. Kind of a weird, unusual thing for Fox to do, though obviously there are fans who will enjoy it.

 

I have seen maybe 3-4 seasons of the show, but planning to watch the rest as I have complete series boxset (+the movie) waiting for me.
As soon as I have time and have watched all the others stuff thats going on, I have to put 24 and see the rest that I have missed.

 

I assume it's because they couldn't ever get the planned movie off the ground.

 

No movie? Dammit!