Filming on the seventh season of Fox’s real-time drama, 24, was shut down on September 15th to address concerns about the quality of the final six scripts. The 18-day shutdown, planned by executive producer Howard Gordon, is expected to allow the writing staff time to reshape and rewrite the season’s conclusion before filming resumes on October 9th. “We just couldn’t get this direction to work,” Gordon said of the show’s end-of-season plans, “and we found another one that we liked better, so we wound up retooling it.” Unlike the other shutdowns that have plagued this seventh season (production was halted several times last summer to work on the plot, and the Writers Guild strike further derailed plans), this hiatus is not expected to affect either the season’s planned January premiere or the November 24th airdate of the two-hour prequel.

24 is presented as if taking place in real time, with each season depicting a 24-hour period in the life of Jack Bauer, played by Keifer Sutherland, who works with the government fighting domestic terror threats. Sutherland, not sensing any real life terror threats to the West Village in New York, recently dropped $8.2 million on a new home there.  He will return to Los Angeles when filming resumes.

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