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24's return postponed by strike
09/11/2007 16:49 - (SA)
New York - The writers strike has struck down the Fox thriller 24.
24 is absent from the network's revised, strike-affected schedule for midseason.
In its announcement, Fox explained the Day 7 season for the series would be indefinitely postponed to ensure an uninterrupted run.
Like most series written by members of the Writers Guild of America, 24 is falling prey to a shortfall of scripts. But the heavily sequential, real-time 24 is dependent on a full-season run of 24 episodes.
Fox's revised schedule also calls for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to have a two-night premiere January 13-14.
The new drama, a reinvention of the Terminator film franchise, stars Lena Headey.
American Idol returns January 15-16. A new game show, The Moment of Truth, premieres January 23.
Looking further ahead, New Amsterdam, a drama about a New York City detective who is immortal, premieres in February.
Strike developments
The Farrelly Brothers comedy Unhitched premieres in March, as does an unscripted, role-reversal series, When Women Rule the World, and a comedy from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, The Return of Jezebel James.
Canterbury's Law, a legal drama starring Julianna Margulies, arrives in April.
Fox stressed that its revised schedule, announced on Wednesday, was subject to further change, if strike developments warrant.
WGA writers went on strike on Monday, with no end in sight to their dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
The announcement by Fox was likely intended, in part, to make clear that it has fresh programming - in the form of new series - on deck, despite forecasts of rerun-beset line-ups looming as the season wears on.
That was unlikely to console 24 fans awaiting the next 24-hour marathon of crises for put-upon hero Jack Bauer.
- AP
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