'24' Pauses for Breath

Zap2It.com | September 8, 2008

Kiefer Sutherland, '24'

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This would be a good chance for Jack Bauer to use the bathroom

Production on "24" will take a two-week break while writers figure out what will happen next on the serialized FOX drama.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, filming on "24" will be shut down from Sept. 15 to Oct. 9, a previously unscheduled hiatus. The trade paper says that the down-time was imposed by veteran showrunner Howard Gordon as an opportunity to rewrite several scripts and reconsider the direction of the season's final six episodes.

This is just the latest speedbump in the seventh season of the Emmy-winning drama.

The show's producers have been quite candid about the different false starts for the season, shifts in plot that caused several delays last summer. After production actually started rolling, the writers strike interrupted things after the competition of the season's eighth episode, causing fans to have to go a season without a new chapter of the Kiefer Sutherland-fronted series.

The show returned to production in April on both seventh season episodes, as well as the two-hour telefilm which will air in November and serve as a bridge to new episodes.

Because of the eight episodes in the can and the early production start, the two-week hiatus won't have any impact on the "24" January premiere.

Few faces set for the show's seventh season include Jon Voight, Cherry Jones, Colm Feore, Sprague Grayden, Janeane Garofalo, Annie Wersching, Jeffrey Nordling, Rhys Coiro and John Billingsley.