"24" is a year away. 
Get used to it.
Even though this has been in the press for days - with the Times saying this Monday that it was "official" - in fact Fox has YET to officially declare that one of the great signature shows of our era - or at least "great signature shows" when it's really really good which is most of the time, with the exception of some of last season when it was really not - is on hiatus for a year.
I can tell you now, though, with no equivocation, hairsplitting, or other forms of BS: "24" is off for another year, to return in January of '09.
It's official. Finally.
Is this a bad thing? Well, duh, YEAH. A very bad thing. A terrible thing.
But it is a real thing, and we'll just have to deal with it.
But just imagine what the world will be like a year from now? A new president - and very possibly an AFRICAN AMERICAN president, which would make dear old "24" remarkably prescient. It will be set in Washington. Kiefer Sutherland will be on the wagon. Chloe - or at least Mary Lynn Rajskub - will have a new baby.
Yup, it'll be a whole new world and whole new "24." Can't wait.