"24:" A 22 Hour Season?
This is interesting and though a couple days old, maybe it's news to you (it was to me.) There's an interview with forthcoming "24" star, Robert Carlyle in Matt Meuller's blog for Premiere.com, in which the Scottish actor says the November prequel will actually be the first two hours of the day, and that when the season picks up in January, we'll jump straight to the third hour
Interesting...and presumably true...because that represents a sharp break with "24" tradition, in which each hour of the day airs in consecutive weeks (I do believe that was one of the original reasons for the January start-date over the years, so Fox could run the hours consecutively through May sweeps.)
Here's what "Full Monty" Carlyle told Meuller at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Where were you shooting in South Africa?
We were in the Stellenbosch region, the wine country. It was doubling for jungle in the fictional country of Sangala.
Who's your character in 24?
My character's called Carl Benton who is Jack Bauer's best buddy and he hasn't seen him for 10 years or something. Jack's on his travels and he comes to see Carl and hang out with him and potentially change his life. Maybe...
Is the movie sticking to the TV show's real-time format?
It is. This two hours is two hours in real time and there'll then be 22 episodes. I don't know how they connect it to the first of those 22 episodes but it's literally the third hour...
So it will lead straight into the new series?
Yeah.
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Carlyle's impressions on the length of the season and the relationship between the prequel and S7 have been refuted by a Fox spokesman as reported by Matt Mitovich at TV Guide yesterday.
"I checked with Fox and confirmed that Day 7 indeed will be the usual 24 episodes/hours, wholly supplementary to the TV-movie.
Carlyle also suggested that the final moments of the prequel will feed right into the opening scenes of Season 7, yet again, that is not exactly the case. The prequel itself picks up four years after the events of Day 6 — effectively planting Jack Bauer in the year 2017, if you have been keeping tabs — and then another few on-screen months will pass between the movie's sure-to-be-thrilling climax and Jack's appearance before Congress. — Matt Mitovich"