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Sutherland on the end of 24

Jack Bauer "began showing me how to be a better man, a better person. This character became my life," says Kiefer Sutherland.

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“After years of lightning striking in all the right places, we thought it was time to go out with our heads high,” Kiefer Sutherland says of the end of 24.

“Jack Bauer became so much bigger than anything I ever envisioned. At a certain point, he began showing me how to be a better man, a better person. This character became my life.”

And maybe Bauer was even to blame for those DUI charges and head-butting a fashion designer? Who knows….?

But back to the show. What has been the biggest contributor for the show losing its mojo?

“Obviously, times have changed,” he says. “We’re no longer in the kind of climate we were in when the show started.”

There was talk this month that NBC might pick up the show if FOX dropped it, but Sutherland insists “that was never a real possibility for me.”

“The hour-by-hour, episode-by-episode dynamic that made for such a thrill ride on television tied us down creatively,” Sutherland explains. “In real time, our characters can’t move around. But in a two-hour representation of a 24-hour day, all of a sudden, Jack can get on a plane and fly from South America to Russia to England, and still have time to save the day in Washington.”

Source: TV Guide

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  3. i think the potential is there to take the series further.

    Unleash it from the 24 hour limit, and go episode by episode, story by story…..something along the lines of spooks.

    Infact, i’m amazed the yanks haven’t tried to make their own version yet.

    I think a jack bauer flavoured version of spooks would be the shizzle. There could be a different storyline each week, with a background story arch. Name the show “CTU:Counter terrorist unit” or something.

    Oh who am i kidding, never gonna happen lol.

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