24 Live Another Day

Jack is back. Yes, Jack Bauer is back to our screens, starting on May 5 as a 2 hour special event and lasting 12 episodes of 24: Live Another Day.

(Almost) Four years after the series finale (aired on May 24, 2010), the show returns as a "limited series event", an euphemism made up by tv networks so they do not commit to a show. If it gets good ratings, it'll be back next year; if numbers are not good, everybody moves on and that's it.

Jack Bauer, still a fugitive as he was in the series finale, shows up in London, and it's no surprise Chloe O'Brien is around too.
We will also see the return of William Devane as James Heller, now President of the United States of America, and Kim Raver as Audrey Raines. The main cast is completed by Yvonne Strahovski as Kate Morgan, a CIA field operative; Benjamin Bratt as Steve Navarro, the head of CIA operations who's tracking Jack Bauer; and Tate Donovan as Mark Boudreau, White House Chief of Staff, also the husband of Audrey Raines.

24: Live Another Day will be simulcast in Canada on Global Television Network, and will be broadcasted in some European countries via Sky Networks on May 6, same as in Latin America via Canal Fox.

Goodbye 24, welcome CTU?

As we all know, 24 is coming to an end; I still don't know why and my guess is that both parts didn't agree on the contract renewal conditions, otherwise it doesn't make sense to let the show go, as ratings weren't bad and another season could have worked fine on that front.

So now that 24 will be put to rest, why not starting a spin-off called "CTU"? The new show would revolve around the new NY based CTU (well, duh) and would tell stories of terrorist threats without the limitations of 24's "real-time" format.

Not so long ago, Kiefer Sutherland threw the idea over the table on an interview by saying something along the lines that 24 could continue without him. Why not? There's plenty of stuff to be done, as I said, without the limitations of the 24 hours format.

What do you think?