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Originally Posted by transplant99
Oh and it is being widely speculated that this will be the final season for 24 as well. There are no contracts on either side to go beyond this one...Fox has suggested they dont want to re-new and its unlikely any other networks would be interested either.
this show would be even more awesome though if it was picked up by a cable station like HBO or Showtime...they could do so much more than the restrictive FCC regulations that throttle the current version.
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Tough call. Although its the most anticpated (and only regular) show we watch year in and year out for the past few years and would still watch it, the scenarios are starting to get somewhat repetitve in general nature.
More clearly, I mean there's been so many shocking twists and turns in the past years (a nuclear bomb went off in LA, Whitehouse hostage situation, Jack dying of a biological weapon etc), its going to be tough to have the same impact/shock value with viewers who have watched the first 7 seasons. Is the show on decline? I'd say no, it proabably not, but I don't think it has a long life line even if it makes it past this year.
Also, its almost impossible to syndicate the show given its format, which works against it from all sorts of angles, including the network. Add to that, it costs a fair bit obviously to produce, given its movie like special effects, and again, the envelope has to keep getting pushed further and further to keep people from saying "Oh, I saw that firey car bomb and shocking plot twist in season 4 already".
As for going somewhere else for less stringent FCC regulations, not sure if that's going to do a lot for the show other then "T&A" it up a bit. The writers over the years have done a pretty good job in giving viewers the building up the drama and showing the necessary gory/uncomfortable details (while giving people the sense of the stuff that they can't show), and showing much of it anyways.
The lack of showing more detailed torturing or not incoporating sex scenes into a 24 hr "season", or not trying to pump up the language with using F-bombs all over the place, has or would make the current or previous 24 storylines any better, and IMO, that's all that HBO/Showtime would do to it.