Deadline has released their “bubble watch” status report, detailing which shows look likely to be renewed or cancelled. Here’s what they had to say about 24: Legacy.
And then there is 24: Legacy. There were very high expectations for the reboot of Fox’s signature drama, with the network giving it a post-Super Bowl launch. Based on that, 24: Legacy‘s delivery has been disappointing, with its future in limbo, possibly contingent on finding a premise for Season 2 that could reenergize the franchise. Still, with a marquee worldwide title and dearth of new drama options at Fox for next season, the reboot is in the mix.
And here is Entertainment Weekly‘s prediction:
A tough one to predict. Fox would rather not give a show the coveted post-Super Bowl slot and then kill it (that’s just embarrassing), and Legacy‘s ratings were higher than several other Fox dramas on this list. If only the action-packed series wasn’t so expensive and viewers didn’t seem to flee so decisively, a renewal would be easier.
TVLine lists 24: Legacy’s renewal chance as “a long-shot.”
Kiefer Sutherland has found success in his new series Designated Survivor which “is certain to come back” for a second season according to Deadline. So if Legacy were to get renewed, don’t count on Jack Bauer appearing.
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Comments ClosedChlojack
April 14, 2017 at 7:02 pmHopefully this doesn’t mean starting over with yet another new cast and location change, but rehashing the same storylines.
TJ
April 15, 2017 at 5:38 pm24marathonman
April 14, 2017 at 7:59 pmMaybe a better idea is to sell the rights to a completely different group and have a go of it on a different network or streaming service.
BDJ
April 17, 2017 at 11:17 ameman
April 14, 2017 at 8:14 pmFox needs to wait a couple years to do a theatrical film with Kiefer, or something with Kiefer like a 6 episode miniseries to wrap up 24 for good.
A second season of Legacy with Borey Hawkins will have even worse ratings because this season was clearly just a pathetic scam to get viewers of the original.
24: Legacy is snake oil.
XAM
April 15, 2017 at 4:49 amShould’ve gone with Jamie Draven, someone with a deadly voice, badass enough to appeal to men and the handsome-bastardness to draw in the women.
Zach Flower
April 14, 2017 at 11:10 pmKevin
April 15, 2017 at 12:08 amGargar
April 15, 2017 at 2:22 amSo stop with the hate. It may get better.
XAM
April 15, 2017 at 4:55 amThe original 24 had living, breathing people as characters, it took ALOT fucking less than 12 episodes to warm to them. It’s all in the tiny little character quirks that made them relatable human beings.
Gargar
April 15, 2017 at 8:40 amAnyhow, it’s a matter of taste. I just think people need to be a bit more open to changes.
Tom
April 15, 2017 at 1:30 pmJD
April 15, 2017 at 5:53 pmShady
April 15, 2017 at 3:41 amJack Bauer = 24 / 24 = Jack Bauer
Having a spinoff of 24 is just spitting in the faces of all 24 fans, treating 24 as if it’s a show like NCIS, CSI, and Law and Order. by doing a spinoff is a disgrace.
It didn’t take a genius to know the ratings were gonna be shit. People watched 24 because of the character of Jack Bauer, not because of the real time aspect of the show…
So cancel it now then bring it back in a few years, bring back the real 24 with Jack and pretend 24 legacy never existed…
XAM
April 15, 2017 at 4:56 amSeba
April 17, 2017 at 8:12 amTJ
April 15, 2017 at 5:44 pmandy
April 15, 2017 at 4:19 amJoeV1998
April 17, 2017 at 12:32 pmJoshua
April 15, 2017 at 4:40 amBDJ
April 17, 2017 at 11:32 amTrue24Fan
April 15, 2017 at 6:20 amXAM
April 15, 2017 at 11:29 amSecond of all, you talk of fans abandoning 24, but I’d argue that 24 abandoned its fans first. No series that cares about its fans would end the main characters story the way they did, or treat Tony the way they have in Legacy. Plus, if they considered their fans they wouldn’t put them through the constant rehashing every fucking season.
JD
April 15, 2017 at 5:22 pmThis is one part of the fanbase that I personally can’t stand. It’s a small part, thankfully, but it’s existed for quite a number of years now. This particular segment of the fanbase is impossible to reason with. I’ve seen them get on people’s cases for even complaining about the “missed the artery” crap regarding Tony’s resurrection. They REFUSE to even acknowledge the smallest complaints with this show–anything.
These ones make up a small pocket but are the loudest voices and the ones that the writers have (apparently) chosen to hear.
This is the faction of the fanbase that can’t grasp the concept that different people have different opinions and that there is no such thing as a “true” fan of ANYTHING.
This would be like a person accusing a parent of not “truly” loving their child because said parent is sometimes critical of their child. Could you imagine someone telling a parent that? Could you imagine someone saying: “You’re not really in love with your kid unless you just praise them and keep your negative thoughts to yourself.”
That’s how I feel regarding this show or ANY show, for that matter. To love something–to TRULY love something is to apply your personal feelings to it. The good and the bad. I love 24. When it is great, I feel the love. When it screws up, I call attention to its screw ups.
We criticize this product because we want and expect better from it…just like anyone would do for the one they love. That’s life.
Unfortunately, people like the guy above us don’t grasp simple concepts like that.
24 Spoilers
April 15, 2017 at 12:32 pmThese new characters are all bland as hell. The villains are terrible – Jadalla was lame, Ibrahim Bin-Khalid was even lamer, and I was hyped as hell for Naseri but he’s been a huge letdown too. The story is by the numbers. There’s no excitement, no tension, no sense of urgency. Real time aspect is being ignored more than ever before. The action isn’t there, the budget isn’t there. There’s no surprises or unpredictability, you can see everything coming a mile away. This is like a really bad, dumbed down version of 24.
Legacy has so many issues that I don’t even know where to begin.
JD
April 15, 2017 at 5:39 pmI’m glad you brought up the budget. I was watching some of Season 3 the other day and was amazed at how much more expensive and professional the show looked…and that was OVER a decade ago! Helicopters firing into buildings, massive prison riots, hotel riots, subway station pursuits, riveting sequences of TAC teams cleaning up in numerous locations.
The acting:
-Tony and Michelle’s scenes
-Chappelle in his infamous death episode
-Jack and his heroin addiction
-Ramon Salazar
-Jack ordering Jane Saunders to be placed into the hotel with Saunders breaking down
-Russian Roulette
-Michelle in the hotel
Take your pick! All of it was more exciting, more professional-looking, better written and larger in scale in every way, shape and form than ANYTHING I EVER saw in Legacy. Even LAD seemed larger in scale so people can’t use the “12 episodes only” crap as an excuse either.
24 Season 3 (my point of comparison) and Legacy don’t even feel like they belong to the same creative team. It’s like night and day.
I challenge ANYONE to tell me that Legacy looks even HALF as professional as Season 3 or ANY of those older seasons, for that matter.
Hank
April 15, 2017 at 7:51 pmThis was such a huge turd. Tony was utterly pointless being in the season. The bad guys are paint by numbers. They basically rehashed the whole Victor Drazin thing, oh he’s dead, whoops, not. The real time aspect is utterly laughable. Like when he was searching for the 2 million. Really? It took him 10 minutes to find that in that tiny evidence room? They even reused the same shot like cartoons do when they come back from commercial. Even the fights/shootouts only last a minute or two. They rest of the time its been one big soap opera with love triangles and such. They rehashed the whole kidnap loved one 3 damn times in 10 episodes. even Kim didn’t get kidnapped that many times in a season. I’m missing the cougar.
Asian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 9:01 pmJD
April 15, 2017 at 5:09 pmPS: You don’t tell me or anyone else on this board who is/isn’t a fan and what sort of a fan they are. In fact, you’d better climb off that self-made high horse of yours before us 24 fans (rightfully) knock you off of it.
I’ll put it to you simply: you’re a fan of this crap–good for you. That’s your right–but many of us are NOT fans of it. Not loving every little facet of this show does NOT diminish one’s own fandom. You’re not the authority over what constitutes a fan of this show, so shut your mouth.
XAM
April 15, 2017 at 5:21 pmJD
April 15, 2017 at 5:29 pmI hear this phrase a lot from some 24 fans: “We owe the creators–they don’t owe us a thing.”. Oh? I beg to differ. Without us fans they have no show and no job in this show. Without them we have no show. It’s a two way street and no one side is more important than the other but, at the end of the day, they sure as HELL need us a LOT more than we need them. Some of us (myself included) have put upwards of 16 years–16 YEARS of loyalty into this series…they owe us quality product–not laziness. Not 500 rehashes. Not the same damned warmed over crap that’s already been warmed over countless times. They have, quite simply, taken us loyal fans for granted. They proved that when they decided to forego the fanbase to “cater to a new generation”. This is Ghostbusters 2016 all over again…only now it’s being done with 24.
Kurt Cobain
April 15, 2017 at 8:39 amHank
April 15, 2017 at 8:47 pmandy
April 15, 2017 at 9:19 amXAM
April 15, 2017 at 11:31 amFord Martin
April 15, 2017 at 12:28 pmMidsomer
April 15, 2017 at 9:33 amShady
April 15, 2017 at 10:50 amandy
April 15, 2017 at 1:56 pmXAM
April 15, 2017 at 2:34 pmandy
April 15, 2017 at 2:46 pmHank
April 15, 2017 at 8:40 pmAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 9:03 pmBrian
April 17, 2017 at 5:35 amAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 9:02 pmSharanRJ
April 15, 2017 at 3:03 pmFact of the matter is the environment today, is much different than how it was when the show first premiered in 2001. It set the modern day standards for network TV, with regards to plot twists and character deaths. That was their biggest selling point. Nowadays, every single show does it. With the rise of cable/digital media, longform storytelling has been much more ambitious and expansive, and unfortunately the show’s gimmick just doesn’t pass muster as well as it does back then, and pales in comparison with a lot of series that air today.
FOX sees it as a cash cow, given their stubbornness when it comes to not killing of Jack. And quite frankly, given how Kiefer has no further interest in continuing (atleast for now; he might change his mind, but I don’t think he will do it, given the physically demanding nature of the role; not to mention he’s in a very well-rounded role at the moment), the story of his character will remain incomplete. They have nobody to blame but themselves (LAD would’ve been the right place to do it).
WouldntYouLikeToKnow
April 15, 2017 at 4:01 pmHow about this:
Instead of chasing Ben Grimes/the chip for half a season, why not have episode 1 end with Eric and Ben accessing the chip, but when they do so, it sends out a signal to all the sleeper cells to go ahead. OOPS, our hero and his war buddy have triggered armageddon. CLOCK.
Episode 2: Amira, brother & teacher prepare to blow up the bridge, which happens at the end of the episode. CTU finds out Henry Donovan gave Bin-Khalid’s son the name of the rangers.
Episode 3: Tony Almeida is brought in, tortured Henry, gets intel on Jadalla. Eric & Ben (who is trying to redeem himself for stealing the strong box and stuff) go after Jadalla, have an insane gun and fist battle between the three of them. Crazy shit. News is on in the background, another landmark has been blown up. Ben kills Jadalla in a fit of rage.
Episodes 4-12: Tony and Eric and Ben team up as an unusual team to take out all the remaining sleeper cells. Asim Naseri, Bin-Khalid’s former bodyguard is the main villain who is now in communication with all the cells. We see several more attacks, some of which Tony, Eric and Ben stop just in time, others they do not. Eventually Naseri kidnaps Rebeccca leading into the finale. Eric is made a CTU agent and Tony has redeemed himself, by helping throughout the day. Ben ends up sacrificing himself somehow.
You know, cut the filler, get to the good shit. Sort of like how Day 6 began with America already under attack, this season could have been the hero accidentally triggering a series of attacks, causing all sorts of guilt on his part. And making it a PERSONAL matter to stop the attacks. Cause every landmark that gets blown up, is on him. It would have been somewhat fresh at least right?
Big Boss
April 15, 2017 at 4:27 pmJD
April 15, 2017 at 5:49 pmAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 8:59 pmAfter Naseri is defeated, a new threat emerges because Tony Almeida is now in the open, and some of Tony’s former enemies go after him, including people in Alan Wilson’s group. The second half is centered on Tony Almeida and we learn more about his backstory and about Sidra. We also learn that Henry Donovan was part of that group.
Logic
April 15, 2017 at 4:51 pmObviously she lives… if not, then Carter is a big fat zero.
His plan to destroy the flash drive failed; if it were not for his brother rescuing him, the terrorist would have recovered the data.
His plan with Rebecca’s trade didn’t really accomplish anything.
They wrote his character with having not much positive results with his insubordinate acts.
That’s what made Jack Bauer’s character awesome, he defied the authority of ctu, but always produced results that saved the day.
XAM
April 15, 2017 at 5:23 pm“Erm, Hassan? Could you deliver that erm… that special cake for me please to the George Washington Bridge?”
JD
April 15, 2017 at 5:46 pmJD
April 15, 2017 at 5:43 pm24 old seasons is Aerosmith while Legacy is “Walk the Moon”.
24 old seasons is Die Hard while Legacy is some direct-to-dvd low budget action movie starring Justin Bieber.
Cruel but that’s my honest view on the difference.
Hank
April 15, 2017 at 8:44 pmAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 9:05 pmJoeV1998
April 17, 2017 at 12:39 pmJD
April 15, 2017 at 5:44 pmTJ
April 15, 2017 at 5:51 pmthom
April 16, 2017 at 2:43 amI don’t believe the show needed higher budgets for big locations and explosions. Neither they needed Jack or Tony…
They could have studied 24’s season 1 while writting Legacy…. The first 13 episodes were a masterpiece….
All those impossible situations, and how clever the protagonist was… As when Jack broke Penticoff out of prison, or when Jack fooled Gaines (and the audience) when he killed Nina… No high budgets required here…. Just a story where we get amazed on how this protagonist is smart and fast…
OMG, the way Jack finally had found Kevin Carroll and “milkshaked” him was great! The villains were tough, but the hero was tougher…..
I hope Legacy doesn’t get renewed. Those writters don’t deserve it… We can just pretend Legacy never happened, and we can hope they give Jack a proper conclusion, someday….
Milo
April 16, 2017 at 2:53 pmAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 12:58 pmAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 1:00 pmeman
April 16, 2017 at 2:19 pmthom
April 16, 2017 at 8:07 pmIt’s called 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot.
You’re gonna love this….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM
Hank
April 16, 2017 at 9:10 pmAsian Rebel
April 17, 2017 at 2:07 pmAsian Rebel
April 16, 2017 at 9:14 pmKurt Cobain
April 17, 2017 at 4:54 ameman
April 16, 2017 at 7:05 pmChris
April 17, 2017 at 4:24 amBrad
April 17, 2017 at 6:52 amXAM
April 17, 2017 at 10:35 amTom
April 17, 2017 at 4:26 amXAM
April 17, 2017 at 10:36 amMaybe they knew if they made something great, Fox would only force them to make more.
Chlojack
April 17, 2017 at 12:28 pmChlojack
April 17, 2017 at 12:44 pm24 Spoilers
April 17, 2017 at 1:00 pmUnfortunately I think we’re stuck with this team, even though they appear to be burnt out and creatively bankrupt.
Hank
April 17, 2017 at 1:55 pmBut yeah, they are so burnt out they need to step the hell away. Amazing how there are shows that go on longer that can still bring it where as this just faded into crap, with a reboot, spinoff, whatever you want to call it, no less..
XAM
April 17, 2017 at 2:06 pmJoshua
April 17, 2017 at 6:12 amWouldntYouLikeToKnow
April 17, 2017 at 6:24 amSharanRJ
April 17, 2017 at 8:37 amHank
April 17, 2017 at 9:34 amWouldntYouLikeToKnow
April 17, 2017 at 10:52 amThe scene with Yvonne Strahovski and Dexter’s kid stands in for Bruce & Selina. Dexter sailing through a tornado (like what the fuck, seriously) stands in for Batman flying the Bat(wing) over the ocean.
Everything from Dexter turning off life support (nobody notices or seems to care), then wheeling a dead person straight out of a hospital with hundreds of people looking on and nobody going “Erm, is that suspicious person wheeling a patient away?”, to dumping the person into the ocean as if it’s just some random person he killed (this is the biggest insult), to Dexter abandoning his child, leaving him with a woman he barely knows who also happens to be a killer, like Dexter himself, to Dexter sailing through a tsunami to emerge as a lumberjack on the other side, was just the biggest punch in the face I’ve ever had to witness. Just remembering that finale exists makes me angry. lol
On the plus side, nothing Manny Coto will write in the future could ever possibly be as shite as the Dexter finale. At least he’s set the bar incredibly low, it’ll be difficult to go lower.
24 Spoilers
April 17, 2017 at 1:38 pmI’ve heard nothing but complaints from the fans that stuck with the show until the end. That finale you described sounds awful.
WouldntYouLikeToKnow
April 17, 2017 at 4:19 pmFor what it’s worth, I actually still enjoyed Season 5 and its villain Jordan Chase. The whole “TAKE IT!” thing, I thought he was a decent villain. But yeah.. let’s not even talk about season 6. In hindsight I don’t know why I stuck with the show post-S5.
One of the original writers came out and posted his idea for the ending of Dexter online that he would have used had he stayed on. Basically Dexter wakes up, we think it was all a dream. But then we see he’s in prison in the execution chamber and the entirety of the show was his life flashing before his eyes, in the few moments between the lethal injection and his death. And he sees everybody he’s ever killed on the show sitting there, watching him.
This would have been a much better ending… Alas, the entire creative team bolted after Season 4. If only 24 Legacy’s entire “creative” team fled…
Chlojack
April 17, 2017 at 12:26 pmWouldntYouLikeToKnow
April 17, 2017 at 4:08 pmJustin C 83
April 17, 2017 at 1:16 pmBluetooth Group
April 17, 2017 at 4:06 pm