24’s Seventh Season Plot Scrapped
There’s a heap of creative trouble going on behind the scenes of 24. After a creatively drab sixth season, the producers promised to change things up to reinvigorate the series. It’s already been said that CTU will not return next season and also that they would probably move out of LA. Then about a month ago, it was revealed that they were looking to have a woman president. Now word is out that the entire plot has been scraped after plans to have part of the plot set in Africa were nixed:
Execs at the Fox hit have scrapped virtually their entire story line for the season, delaying the start of production by roughly three weeks. According to sources, the 11th-hour time-out was called after the network put the kibosh on a costly plan to shoot a number of episodes in Africa. Producers briefly toyed with the idea of finding a location in Los Angeles that could sub for the continent, but they ultimately decided to ditch the whole concept and start over from scratch.
I’m not sure what kind of plot they were looking to have set in Africa that would involve a woman President but it sounds better than a nuke in LA. Apparently they plan to keep the President storyline in tact, to an extent, so we can expect a woman president on 24 next season. Personally I wish they’d scrap the Presidential storyline completely. Anything would be better than last season. Hell, a Die Hard scenario with just Jack would be a nice change.
Also, Chloe will be back and that just doesn’t bode well. Her character has ceased to be interesting. I’ll tune in at the beginning of the season to see what they’ve come up with, but if by the fourth or fifth episode it turns out to be the same old recycled crap, I’ll be tuning out.
24 returns in January.