Fox Television Group CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman had a conference call with reporters ahead of the Fox upfront presentation that takes place today, where they were asked about 24: Legacy.
“Legacy, we were so happy with the creative on that show, we think Corey Hawkins did a great job,” said Fox TV chairman Dana Walden. “… as you probably know Corey is on Broadway right now with Six Degrees of Separation … his schedule wouldn’t allow us to consider the show for the fall … it’s another show to talk about.”
We hearing producers will be pitching ways to keep 24 going in the weeks after Fox’s upfront presentation. While Fox say they were happy with the creative, ratings went from the show’s post-Super Bowl presentation of 17.6 million viewers down to about 3.3 million viewers for its finale, so we’d be surprised if there were no major creative changes.
Gary Newman to TVLine:
As for 24: Legacy, which averaged a 1.0 during its springtime run, Newman told TVLine they were “so happy with the creative” execution, as well as Corey Hawkins’ job in the lead role. “Replacing Jack Bauer is no easy feat,” he noted.
Hawkins, however, is currently busy with his Tony Award-nominated run in Broadway’s Six Degrees of Separation, and that in part has put a pin in any new season of 24: Legacy, though the thriller remains “very much in mix” at Fox, Newman said.
Executives were also interested in talking to Howard Gordon, executive producer of the series, to get a sense of potential next creative steps, said Dana Walden, chairman-CEO of Fox Television Group.
The future of 24: LEGACY is also up in the air. They believe that star Corey Hawkins did a great job of taking over the lead role in 24, but he’s currently starring on Broadway and his schedule would never have allowed him to return for the fall season. The network also really had no intention of doing consecutive new seasons of 24: LEGACY, Walden said. However, Newman said that they have every intention of discussing the future of 24 when they return to Los Angeles after Upfronts and there is a chance the show could return in the future.
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May 15, 2017 at 9:24 amComing 2018
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Chlojack
May 15, 2017 at 9:29 am24 Spoilers
May 15, 2017 at 10:16 amThey’re blaming Corey’s broadway schedule (which ends July 16) for Legacy not being “considered for the fall” when it was never intended to be a fall series anyway. 24 hasn’t been a fall show since the third season in 2003. Corey’s schedule would absolutely NOT prevent it from being picked up for midseason, yet it hasn’t been. Dana Walden’s statement seems really disingenuous.
And if they were truly “so happy with the creative,” then why not renew it already? They wouldn’t have to delay a decision and have future meetings with Howard Gordon to discuss the future and “get a sense of potential next creative steps” after the upfronts.
Whole thing just reeks of damage control to be honest.
X
May 15, 2017 at 10:29 amShe might mean the Fall shoot.
I’ll never understand why they didn’t make Tony the lead in the first place.
24 with Tony as the lead would have been the Xena to Jack Bauer’s Hercules, which is already a radical comparison because Jack Bauer is already closer to Xena than Hercules, but Tony is that much darker (even closer to Xena).
X
May 15, 2017 at 10:38 amTony becomes the bigger hit and we see Eric meet up with Tony once in a while.
They should make Tony the lead and saddle him up with some innocent sidekick to contrast his darkness (maybe a bit of Live Free Or Die Hard comparison with the young and innocent Justin Long character attached to the old & weary Bruce Willis character).
I’m thinking a young female essential to the mission and Tony has to escort her.
Think Day 7 with Jack and Renee.
If the show is to continue, obviously FOX would love for Kiefer to find a way in.
Make Jack a Russian insurgent (brainwashed) that’s pretending to help the cast from Legacy and then it turns out he’s the bad guy and the villain of day is Jack Bauer.
Enter Tony Almeida as the hero of the day.
But then whiney bitches would complain that they turned Jack bad, then they’d finally see that Live Another Day was a wonderful ending.
Chlojack
May 15, 2017 at 11:00 am24 Spoilers
May 15, 2017 at 2:01 pmFox is not being truthful at all here.
Big Boss
May 15, 2017 at 2:07 pmJD
May 15, 2017 at 11:55 amThis interview had that same sort of…feel to it that the “Amazing Spiderman 2” interviews had where they kept stalling before the inevitable cancellation of the third movie. That same sort of “style” is present here. You know it’s bad when they’re going the “kick the can down the road” route.
You know what? Good. I’m honestly tired of the continued abuse of this once great show. It went out with a whimper. I hate that it did but that’s the reality of it. Let it rest in peace already.
andy
May 15, 2017 at 10:27 amBig Boss
May 15, 2017 at 11:24 amBluetooth Group
May 15, 2017 at 11:39 amJD
May 15, 2017 at 12:01 pmBut that’s what happens. That’s what happens when you drag a show on for this long, kill most of its principle cast off, disrespect your fans continuously and retread the same damn old (and tired) ground over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
My worst fears and predictions came true: 24 didn’t go out with a bang but with a whimper. It drove itself headlong into the ground. What a shame…
Gerry Mander
May 15, 2017 at 6:28 pm24
May 15, 2017 at 12:14 pmThen down the line they can make one final season with Jack, Tony and Chloe.. or simply end it after this if another season never gets to happen. Seeing Jack broken out of prison (especially with Tony and Chloe’s help) would be a far more satisfying conclusion than Jack rotting in prison.
Jackneedstobeback
May 15, 2017 at 1:39 pmBluetooth Group
May 15, 2017 at 2:13 pmXAM
May 15, 2017 at 9:40 pmChlojack
May 15, 2017 at 1:25 pm“The network also really had no intention of doing consecutive new seasons of 24: LEGACY, Walden said. However, Newman said that they have every intention of discussing the future of 24 when they return to Los Angeles after Upfronts and there is a chance the show could return in the future.”
http://www.thetvaddict.com/2017/05/15/foxs-new-schedule-the-future-of-prison-break-and-24-and-american-idols-move-to-abc/
Big Boss
May 15, 2017 at 1:55 pmI just can’t believe how dead the whole fan community has become, even when the season was on. Shows like Better Call Saul and The Leftovers, which the ratings would have you believe pull a fraction of 24’s (already bad) numbers, get Reddit threads with thousands and thousands of replies both during and post-airing; 24 is lucky to manage 300 for the fucking finale. There is absolutely no devoted core audience for this show anymore. Not if this season is the best they can manage, that’s for sure.
Chlojack
May 15, 2017 at 4:16 pm24 Spoilers
May 15, 2017 at 4:37 pmEven the handful of people there that actually care enough to fight for the show and send email campaigns seem to be doing it in the hopes of Jack/Tony/Chloe/Kate returning (which is some fantasy wish list idea that isn’t going to happen and completely goes against the entire concept of Legacy which was to introduce an entirely new cast).
But aside from the crappy characters, the writing was so weak with everything being so predictable and telegraphed that there just wasn’t much of anything to discuss or speculate about. The biggest discussion point of this season was “when will Tony show up?” and then “will Tony ever get more than one minute of screen time?”
The writers made an iteration of the show that nobody was asking for, and those of us who did give it a chance ended up being extremely disappointed.
I just can’t muster up any excitement for another installment of this mess. Even after the terrible sixth season I was still excited for the future because the producers were saying all of the right things – acknowledging where they messed up and promising to “reinvent” the show. I don’t understand what the Legacy showrunners (and Fox) are trying to accomplish by refusing to acknowledge any of the fan criticism and claiming they’re so proud of the show creatively. These guys are either completely delusional or lying through their teeth.
All bad things come to and End
May 15, 2017 at 5:33 pmWell, it’s FOX… Need I say more?!
Brian
May 15, 2017 at 6:01 pmBig Boss
May 15, 2017 at 6:22 pmThere’s just no indication that they know, or care to know, what people want from this franchise.
XAM
May 15, 2017 at 9:57 pmHard evidence right here that they’re lying cunts! They always intended for Legacy to be a multi-season affair.
There’s no shame in admitting you fucked up if things didn’t go the way you wanted them to. But the damage control here is beyond pathetic!
Chris Walker
May 15, 2017 at 2:29 pmhttp://deadline.com/2017/05/no-24-legacy-prison-break-this-season-fox-corey-hawkins-1202093623/
Kevin
May 15, 2017 at 4:34 pmeman
May 15, 2017 at 5:08 pmKevin
May 15, 2017 at 6:22 pmBrian
May 16, 2017 at 1:45 amJoshua
May 15, 2017 at 10:26 pmX
May 16, 2017 at 2:35 amKIEFER walks into the ABC President’s office.
POABC — ”Oh, hi, Kiefer !!”
KIEFER — ”Don’t ‘oh, hi, Kiefer’ me.
I know what’s going on.”
POABC — ”What are you talking about?”
KIEFER — ”Don’t play games with me.
I know the truth.”
[POABC picks up the phone.]
KIEFER — ”Put it down. (POABC stares in disbelief) Now.”
POABC — ”Are you here to kill me?”
KIEFER — ”Depends. Where does Designated Survivor stand at the upfronts?”
POABC — “I told you before, Kiefer.
I’m in charge, let me take care of it, everything will be fi…”
KIEFER — ”You do not tell me what to do anymore!
Do you understand me?
YOU do not tell me what to do.
I just left the greatest series ever behind on FOX, and I felt nothing.
You know why?…..
Yea….. you know why.
Because that show was dead to me years ago.
I admired ABC.
I looked up to it like an escape, a second chance.
ABC was the safe haven where I wanted to start a new life, and you took advantage of it.”
POABC — ”Kiefer, listen to me….”
KIEFER — ”No!
You are gonna listen to me.
Earlier today… you said that I was cursed.
That any show I ‘Touched’…. ended up dead or canceled.
How dare you.
How… dare you.
The only thing I did, the only thing I have EVER done is what you and people like you have asked of me. Why didn’t you try to renew Designated Survivor?”
POABC — ”I did try.”
KIEFER — ”Not hard enough!
You had the political power.
Was the timing not right?
Was it a little too complicated?
Or was I just an acceptable loss?”
POABC — ”Kiefer, I understand your anger….”
KIEFER — ”Shut up!
You don’t understand a thing about me, but I know you.
I know why you’re angry at me, and it wasn’t because FOX came to me with a sweet deal for another season.
It’s ’cause when you told them not to, they did it anyway.’
You’ll never understand that kind of commitment.
That kind of loyalty.”
POABC — ”You’re right, Kiefer.
It wasn’t fair of me to put all this on you.
To blame you for what happened to this show.
I know the sacrifices you’ve made.
I know this network owes you more than it’ll ever repay.”
KIEFER — ”I’m not interested in what you think this network owes me.
I want Designated Survivor back, and I want it now.
It’s all I’ve got.
You can’t stop me.
In case you’ve forgotten, I’m very good at disappearing…. and returning again.
And if you try canceling this show, I’ll go back to FOX and bring back 24 so hard, I’ll destroy any opponent network on that night, like yours.
Pretty good at that, too.”
POABC — ”Kiefer, simply getting your show back isn’t gonna change who you are… and you can’t walk away from it.
You know that.
You’ve tried it.
Sooner or later you’re gonna get back onto 24, and my network’s gonna pay the price…. like your 24:Legacy did.”
KIEFER — (deeply disturbed) “You son of a bitch.”
Abc
May 16, 2017 at 4:52 amBy the way, what scene was this from?
TJ
May 16, 2017 at 9:35 amGreat job, X!
X
May 16, 2017 at 11:53 pmKiefer should have won the Emmy or Oscar or whatever for Day 6.
Kurt Cobain
May 18, 2017 at 4:09 amX
May 16, 2017 at 2:04 amIt doesn’t cost them much and they would make so much profit.
TJ
May 16, 2017 at 9:36 amX
May 16, 2017 at 11:59 pmThey could really introduce people to 24 who has never seen it before.
Prime-time television is magical for some reason.
I guess everybody is aware that a lot of people are watching prime-time, so they want to watch it too.
Otherwise, no one would care about prime-time and everyone would just watch old shows on DVD or on those OnDemand channels where they can watch anything they want at any time.
I don’t see the point in watching prime-time, myself.
But I don’t jump onto bandwagons as most people do.
Abc
May 16, 2017 at 5:01 ameman
May 16, 2017 at 12:06 pmtiny
May 16, 2017 at 11:40 amPatty
May 16, 2017 at 1:29 pmandy
May 16, 2017 at 3:35 pmBrian
May 16, 2017 at 9:32 pmX
May 16, 2017 at 11:56 pmI was in disbelief when they announced Tony was coming back and definitely saw it as a new low/high for “Jumping The Shark”, but once they actually had it happen and play out in Day 7, I loved it and it made sense (it wasn’t ridiculous).
Gerry Mander
May 17, 2017 at 6:24 am’24’ isn’t real-life; it’s a heightened and slightly exaggerated version thereof, so they have a lot of leeway to get away with things that real-life physics would preclude.
People love Day 5 so much because it isn’t only the best overall season of ’24’ but it is, from beginning to end, one of the single best television seasons ever and yet produced for my money… an extraordinary achievement.
I agree about Tony in Day 7, it could have been a shark-jump moment, but they handled it well.
And Rambo? He wears Jack Bauer pajamas…
Hank
May 17, 2017 at 10:08 amWhether it’s jumping cars through buildings in that Just Won’t Die Fast series, a herion addict suddenly feeling oh so great with happy pills, McClane swinging off a roof with a hose wrapped around him, the thousands of hours of TV and movies where the bad guys always miss(big yeah right) etc. etc. etc. You’d never be able to just walk away. But if they went all real life, everything would be boring as shows and movies would spend most of their time in hospitals or morgues.
WillAlwaysMissJack
May 17, 2017 at 12:00 amI lost interest early on in Legacy and hope that Legacy is one and done.
Marlon
May 17, 2017 at 4:12 amOtherwise, consider this:
Jack in a helicopter to the Russians as the end
Tony is a mercenary who will continue working for money with a hot missus named Sidra
Chloe in the US probably with a new look
Logan made it alive and is in a psych ward/prison
X
May 17, 2017 at 5:20 amTony has a sweet little job with a hot babe at his side.
Chloe is probably, thinking about Jack and devoting her life to helping others.
Logan is a brain-damaged vegetable if he’s even still alive.
I like it.
Marlon
May 17, 2017 at 7:08 pmIt’ll be a few years before we see Jack Bauer again. Even if we see Jack Bauer again.
Possible mini series or cameo to finish the story would be nice though.
But I do think Jack at peace in Russia could be an ending….even though viewers were not prepared for that.
What would you call the last day of 24?
24: Rescue
24: Resolution
24: One More Time (with Daft Punk song as the promotional trailer theme song)
24: Exposed
Hey 24 Spoilers shall we do a poll of some sort?
Liam Neeson WILL find you
May 18, 2017 at 2:35 pmMarlon
May 18, 2017 at 6:34 pmHe could be dead for all we know – killed on the way there whilst trying to escape.
He could be working with them! (No….)
But I would say he’s at peace for handing himself in and not running anymore.
XAM
May 20, 2017 at 4:17 pm24: Calling Time
24: Fuck Off
Brian
May 21, 2017 at 9:47 pmJoshua
May 18, 2017 at 2:48 amMilo
May 19, 2017 at 8:12 amHank
May 19, 2017 at 3:15 pmMilo
May 20, 2017 at 4:13 amHank
May 23, 2017 at 10:48 amandy
May 18, 2017 at 4:54 ameman
May 19, 2017 at 1:16 pmandy
May 20, 2017 at 5:57 amMilo
May 20, 2017 at 1:29 pmandy
May 21, 2017 at 10:20 amChlojack
May 24, 2017 at 9:35 pmhttps://twitter.com/seabass129/status/867413110155612161
andy
May 25, 2017 at 1:42 pmMilo
May 26, 2017 at 6:24 amthom
May 25, 2017 at 8:04 pmIt seems to work fine for James Bond.
Kiefer is great as Bauer, but Jack is the king of the series. They should bring Jack back, with or without Kiefer. That shouldn’t be so bad as Legacy were. I’m positive about it :-)
I want to see Jack escaping from the russians, returning to the game, getting old, crushing terrorists. I don’t want to see Eric Carter.
Patty
May 25, 2017 at 10:40 pmHere’s the casting call:
Are you a fan of Jack Bauer? Now you can live out your ultimate fantasy of being Jack Bauer! Imagine yourself going rogue, chasing and shooting bad guys, torturing terrorists, detonating bombs, screaming dammit, loving woman as only Jack Bauer can. Auditions will take place soon. No experience necessary.
Kurt Cobain
May 26, 2017 at 4:08 amandy
May 26, 2017 at 11:16 amPatty
May 26, 2017 at 12:35 pmThey will wait and revive the original 24 as a special event in 2021 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show.
andy
May 26, 2017 at 8:15 pmthom
June 3, 2017 at 3:57 pmI’m not sure 24 Legacy shares the same fanbase.
Patty
June 6, 2017 at 12:15 amhttp://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/more-tv-news/final-live-3-adults-18-49-ratings-for-2016-17-designated-survivor-makes-a-big-jump/