Apparently, you quite liked it …
It Rocked : 82%
Good, Doesn’t Mean The Show Will Be : 13%
Slightly Underwhelmed : 4%
Completely Awful, Won’t Bother Watching : 2%
… which is a shame, since we might not see S7 for a fair while yet. New poll asks you what you think about the Writer’s Guild strike which has forced the postponement of S7.
So, yesterday I told you about the possibility, and today, it’s official, Fox have postponed 24’s Seventh Season until it can be aired non-stop. Press release from Fox below.
“24” PREMIERE POSTPONED TO ENSURE “DAY 7” PROVIDES NON-STOP ACTION
In light of the recently announced strike by The Writers Guild of America, FOX has revised its lineup for January and the remainder of the 2007-2008 season. (The new schedule is subject to change, pending resolution of the strike.)
The highly anticipated drama TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES will have a two-night premiere on Sunday, Jan. 13 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and Monday, Jan. 14 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT), the show’s regular time period. PRISON BREAK, which has its last November airing on Monday, Nov. 12 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), returns to Mondays (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) beginning Jan. 14.
The seventh season premiere of 24 is being postponed to ensure that “Day 7” can air uninterrupted, in its entirety.
It would be really easy to start blaming the writers now, and for us the fans to act as victims of some unspeakable horror, but I for one am with the writers on this one. Just look how crucial there contribution is, they deserve a fair share of the pie.
As many of you will know the WGA (writer’s guild of america) is on strike, meaning no new scripts for any shows including 24 are being written, or any current scripts being polished or touched up, and in many cases whole productions have been shut down until further notice, although there has been no specific word on this about 24’s current state of production, but at the very best they’ll simply be in production of already finished scripts, but the best estimates have 9 episodes of Season 7 in the can. Leaving Fox with a number of hard choices if the strike isn’t resolved soon. Option number 1 is to go on in January with what episodes they do have, stopping when they’ve run out, but given the ratings success they’ve had with airing all episodes back to back with no breaks or repeats, I’m guessing they wouldn’t really want to do that. The other option is to postpone the show indefintely until the strike is over and production has gotten back up to speed.
I’ll post more news on this when I have it.