Fox pushes back "24" Premiere

[Vanhalen]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds16155.html

 

FOX has revised its premiere date for the new season of 24 in January.

 

The "blockbuster" two-hour opener will now air on Sunday, January 9 at 8pm, the same day as the NFC Wild Card game on FOX.

 

The drama's regular time period premiere - Mondays at 9pm - remains as January 10.

[starvenger]

This isn't exactly a bad thing. The football game should be a good lead-in, plus hopefully we'll get a lot of the plot buildup out of the way in the first week.

 

BTW, word is that Tony Almeda will be back for at least a few eps

[Vanhalen]

Wouldnt three hours in three days be a bit much though?

[starvenger]

Probably. So what does it mean if it's 3 hours in a 25-hour span?

[MarvinisaLunatic]

The only news about this is the fact that they are doing back to back nights.

 

Just remember that being backed up to January means there wont be a whole month like the last 2 seasons where there isn't a new episode. It also gave them fewer weeks to get in the 24 episodes which meant that they had to do the 2 hour premiere.

 

I know that they wont do with a 2 hour premiere is a commercial free episode, which sucks, but maybe they can pull off limited commercial interruption or something so that there arent so many commercials.

[Guest El Satanico]

3 hours of a good show in alittle over a day isn't too much.

 

They could do an hour of the 2 hour premiere as commercial free, just like the usual premiere. The first half hour and last half hour can run commercial free, but the middle hour has commercials.

[slimm44]

Mondays at 9? Now that throws off my whole tv viewing schedule

 

Oh well, 24 is back!

[Mole]

I haven't been watching Raw now, so there is NO way I'll watch it in January.