24 Canceled Until Sept 08′

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Dammit, looks like season 7 of 24 will be canceled until September of 2008 due to the strike.  Not good.

Here is the announcement:

Three days in, the writers strike is hitting television hard as schedules are being juggled, overall deals suspended, production on series shut down and layoffs kick in.

Fox on Wednesday became the first broadcast network to announce a strike-affected midseason schedule minus its signature drama “24.”

Meanwhile, 20th Century Fox TV became the latest TV studio to send out suspension letters to writers with overall deals, joining CBS Paramount Network TV, ABC Studios and Universal Media Studios.

20th TV also began notifying writers assistants Wednesday that they are being laid off effective immediately, but the studio will pay their health benefits through the end of the year, sources said.

Faced with the possibility of a partial Season 7 of “24,” Fox has opted not to air the real-time drama at all this season.

“It’s not a decision we wanted to make, but it’s one based on how we feel the viewers expect us to schedule the show,” said Preston Beckman, Fox’s scheduling chief.

The decision to act quickly so early in the strike also was prompted by the large amounts of marketing money associated with the premieres of new series and the annual launch of “24.” The network began airing promos for the upcoming season of “24” during the World Series and on a big screen in Times Square.

“Had we delayed executing and implementing of a strike schedule, it could’ve cost us a lot of money,” Beckman said.

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this does give Jack time to complete his jail term before shooting the series

One of my favorite episodes of Get Smart, is when Max Smart learns CHAOS has a better benefit package so the crew at CONTROL threaten to strike.

Now imagine if the real intellegence community was union. Oh the humorous actions that would result.

Just look at the bight side:

You’ll be able to go longer without having to see
Janine Garaffalo.

Greg,

I do not believe we have to worry about the CIA/DIA going on strike because of benefits. (1)They are civil government employees and get REALLY good benefits. And the government civil “servants” are unionized (a very powerful union too). (2) Islamofascism’s “benefits” are only enjoyable AFTER you die, but ONLY if you die in military jihad.

This of course begs the question of why did not Arafat, Bin Laden, and the rest of these sorry sacks of protoplasm, jump to the front of the homocide bomber line?

oh well
and this season looked really good too

This seriously made me cry.
only 39 more days, whoops, never mind, greedy people desiced to cancell it :'(

re: hilary
Greed was not the reason for cancelling this season. Did you really want to see 7 episodes and then have to wait several months before you could see another episode (since, even once the strike is over…it will take time to write new scripts and then shoot them).

Also hilary…don’t forget Keifer Sutherland is in jail right now, so they couldn’t have shot any episodes even if they did have all the scripts.