# 24: Fox Cancels Airing This Season Due To Writers' Strike **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 10, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954 "2007-11-10T19:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/21 "2007-11-11T17:46:30Z")
[QUOTE=ianzin] Aren’t these the power source behind the Dope server? [/QUOTE] Maybe. But we’re going to be running critically short of snark this winter if there’s no 24. Me, I’m looking forward to the Fox reality series, “Who Wants to Be a Screenwriter?”. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/22 "2007-11-11T18:00:29Z")
[QUOTE=mangeorge] Does anybody (here) have any idea how much money these writers make, and how much more is at stake? Are the writers for “24” typical? BTW; I almost instinctively side with the strikers in any situation. Peace, mangeorge [/QUOTE] [Here](http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-strike-ii.html) is a good (IMO) summary of the issues involved in all this … ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/23 "2007-11-11T19:04:52Z")
[QUOTE=Finagle] Maybe. But we’re going to be running critically short of snark this winter if there’s no 24. Me, I’m looking forward to the Fox reality series, “Who Wants to Be a Screenwriter?”. [/QUOTE] We might have to fall back on old episodes of Babylon 5 featuring Commander Susan Ivonva. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/24 "2007-11-11T19:38:16Z")
[QUOTE=SCSimmons] [Here](http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-strike-ii.html) is a good (IMO) summary of the issues involved in all this … [/QUOTE] Thanks, that will certainly answer my question. But I must set it aside (as does Martin Yan) for the moment and get some work done. ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/25 "2007-11-11T21:15:46Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] We might have to fall back on old episodes of Babylon 5 featuring Commander Susan Ivonva. 🙂 [/QUOTE] IVANOVA IS GOD! ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/26 "2007-11-11T22:48:38Z")
[QUOTE=Elenfair] IVANOVA IS GOD! [/QUOTE] Civilians. :rolleyes: Just kidding about that God part… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/27 "2007-11-11T22:54:24Z")
“24” had writers?!? (I say that as a long-time watcher, with all love.) ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954/28 "2007-11-11T23:02:45Z")
Well, this totally means that we need to do a crossover. Jack Bauer vs. Walker vs. MacGuyver. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/24-fox-cancels-airing-this-season-due-to-writers-strike/425954.md?page=1)