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Story Update:
Entertainment Weekly has learned that the ”limited event series” in the works for 24 is actually an order for 13 one-hour episodes. While 24 has always functioned as a 24-hour story spread over 24 episodes, 13 episodes is a full season for a lot of television shows. So it will be interesting to see how developing 24 as a 13-episode limited event series will change the franchise.

Earlier:
Deadline has learned that Kiefer Sutherland is in early talks with Fox to reprise CTU agent Jack Bauer in a “limited event series”. I’m not sure exactly what that means, but it sounds like a higher budget mini-series rather than a 24-episode/hour ninth season of television.

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Again, no deals are yet in place, and they don’t have a script in place — apparently they are starting from scratch, abandoning all the work that was done on the feature screenplay, and instead going with a completely new story arc likely to be supervised by former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon.

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