would lose viewership over time. - lex, don t! - because if the audience misses an episode, then they would be inclined to stop watching it because they would feel like, i missed one and now i don t know what s happening. - there had been amazing shows that had been sterilized. they never had syndication value, because you couldn t revisit them, but there s almost no better hook. it s like a book you can t turn down, like, okay, i m just gonna watch a little bit more. - 24 was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this, fox schedules it, 9/11 happens. [explosion] suddenly this show, which seemed like this goofy thing about kiefer sutherland chasing after middle eastern extremist terrorists becomes the most timely show on television because that is all that anyone in america
lose viewership over time. like stones. because if the audience misses an episode, then they would be inclined to stop watching it because they would feel, like i missed one and now i don t know what s happening. there had been amazing shows that had been serialized. they never had syndication value, because you couldn t revisit them. but there s almost no better hook. it s like a book you can t turn down. like, okay, i m just going to watch a little bit more. 24 was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this, fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly, this show which seemed like this goofy thing about kiefer sutherland chasing after middle eastern extremist terrorists becomes the most timely show on television, because that is all that anyone
that shows that became increasingly seerldz would lose viewpoint because if an audience miss answer episode they would be inclined to stop watching because they would feel like i missed one now don t know what s happening. there had been amazing shows that had been serialized it s like a put book you can t turn down i m just going to watch a little bit more. 24 set to debut in november of 2001, the pilot climaxes were i an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in mid air. fox orders this, fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly the show which seem like this goofy thing about
because if the audience misses an episode, then they would be inclined to stop watching it because they would feel like, i missed one and now i don t know what s happening. there had been amazing shows that had been serialized. they never had syndication value because you couldn t revisit them. but there s almost no better hook. it s like a book you can t turn down. . you go, okay, i m just going to watch a little bit more. 24 was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this. fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly the show which seemed like this goofy thing about keifer sutherland chasing after middle eastern extremist terrorists becomes the most timely show on television because that is all that anyone in america can talk about after september 11th.
what s happening. there had been amazing shows that had been serialized. they never had syndication value because you couldn t revisit them. but there s almost no better hook. it s like a book you can t turn down, you go, i m going to watch a little bit more. 24 was set to debut in november of 2001. the pilot climaxes with an assassin blowing up a passenger jet in midair. fox orders this. fox schedules it. 9/11 happens. suddenly the show which seemed like this goofy thing about keifer sutherland chasing after middle eastern terrorists becomes the most timely show on television because that is all that anyone in america can talk about after september 11th. the name for the series comes from the idea that it s 24 episodes in a season. each episode is one hour in a day. and jack bauer just has the worst days.