24 episodes in a row from January to May. No weeks off. No months off. No interuptions.
Maybe it will catch on. What a concept.
It’s the same as what they did last year.
Ed
Hopefully, Chloe will slake her newfound taste for blood.
Mmm, Chloe. I was so happy to see a quick shot of her in the commercial. She is way too much fun of a character to write out of the show!
I wonder if Edgar is back? I don’t recall seeing him at all, but then, I try to be as fresh as possible, so when I see/hear a promo for 24 I change the channel. 
You just killed Chloe!
Whatcha bet there’ll be at least one excuse for W to pop in with some commentary on the world’s status during that “uninterrupted” period?
It’s the same thing they used to do with every show on TV. I’m hoping it comes back. Two new shows, three repeats, see you in a month for a very special episode of Lost. And they wonder why people get pissed off and stop watching.
A lot of people screamed bloody murder and threatened to stop watching (or simply quietly stopped watching) when they jerked it around the way Fox usually treats their best shows.
For season one, I watched about half before I ended up missing enough episodes to give up and wait for the DVD set. For season two, I relied heavily on the internet to keep me up-to-date – and still fumed along with everyone else when they’d give us the usual cliffhanger and then expect us to still care after they gave us a month of football, American Idol, and whatever lame pilot they hoped to piggyback on 24’s popularity.
If it weren’t for the threads here, I wouldn’t have bothered – I’d have just waited for the DVD set (which I bought anyway.) I’m sure Fox knew that more people would just watch something else and not worry about catching up.
Shee-it, people knew in the forties that a week was the absolute limit between installments in an adventure serial. “Will Dirk manage to free himself before the dynamite goes off? Is Betty doomed to an unspeakable fate at the hands of Dr. Claw? What happened to Poindexter? Find out next September!” :rolleyes:
Now if only Lost would get a clue.
What I love even more than the new episode every week, is the 4 HOURS that they kick it off with (2 hrs Sunday, 2 hrs Monday) to get you hooked.
As I found out with Desperate Housewives, though, it really doesn’t matter all that much. For all the moaning and groaning about no new episodes, all is forgiven when they get back to airing the new ones. I really don’t think people that like a show so much they can’t stand when there’s not a new episode will ever stop watching that show.
The problem is that sometimes it’s hard to know if/when the new episodes are. 24 has been pretty consistent, in that episodes would always Tuesday at 9:00, even if there was a month-long break. But to invoke Arrested Development yet again, I have to scour the internet to figure out when it’s on.
I’m mostly looking forward to Monday’s and Tuesday’s dissection of the show. How much more improbable and convoluted will the plot be this season? How much ass can Jack kick in 24 hours. What will be Jack’s body count for the day? What improbably romance will takeoff and even come to fruition while Rome burns all around?
I like Battlestar Galactica’s plan, where they air 10 straight weeks of shows, then take a break for 3 months and air 10 more weeks.
Spreads out the season, but when it is on, you feel like you are getting a lot of it.
I wish Lost would consider this.
I hope Chloe gets some action. Although, ordinarily, I’m not into anal action.
For the 24,024th time, Arrested Development has had TWO timeslots:
Sunday at 8:30
and
Monday at 8
Entertainment Weekly had an article this week about the new season (Jack is on the cover). Returning cast-related spoilers:
Chloe, Edgar, Michelle, Soul Patch, Audrey and Kim(!) will all be in this season.
There were some plot-related spoilers too, but I’ve erased them from my memory.
For those who like being spoiled, in the first episode ex President Palmer is assassinated by a sniper, while Michelle and Tony’s car is blown up, killing her and leaving him in critical condition. Apparently someone is trying to kill EVERYONE that knows Jack is alive.
If every show ran 24 weeks back to back, what would you watch for the other 28 weeks of the year? You think the networks would spring for a whole second slate of shows?
How far away are we from 52?
You may be joking, but in March, DC Comics is actually coming out with a series called 52, with one new full-size issue being released each week for an entire year. It is going to be a big event “reintroducing” the DC Universe through the points of view of six “minor” characters: Booster Gold, the Question, Elongated Man, Steel, Black Adam, and Renee Montoya. Those characters will serve as the readers’ eyes and ears as the series showcases what happened during the missing year, when all the regular monthly comics (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) skipped one year ahead with no other explanations. It sounds like it will be quite a mystery, that will shake the comic book continuity to its core… five writers are collaborating on 52, so it will be a very big deal.