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• The Fox action-drama series, 24, revolves around counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer, (Kiefer Sutherland). Each season of 24 is comprised of 24 episodes and each episode takes place in "real time". Therefor by the end of a season, the viewers have watched one day/24 hours in the life of Bauer. The one hour episodes are broadcast in sequential order and during the course of the day there is typically a terrorist threat to the United States which Bauer and his colleagues at the CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit) must thwart.

  Freddie Prinze Jr. joined the cast in May of 2009. He will play the role of Davis Cole, a Marine who will run CTU Field Ops.Reuters: Freddie Prinze Jr. Taking Role on 24 (May 28, 2009)

• Fast Facts

  1. New episodes: Mondays, 9PM
  2. Network: FOX
  3. Currently Season 7
  4. Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Colm Feore, Cherry Jones, Freddie Prinze Jr.
  5. Created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran
  6. Series premiere: November 6, 2001
  7. Reportedly only eight season are plannedE! Online: Will Jack Bauer Die on the Big Screen? (January 14, 2009)
  8. Full-feature film may be the official end of the seriesE! Online: Will Jack Bauer Die on the Big Screen? (January 14, 2009)

• The End?

  Executive producer Howard Gordon revealed in a January 2009 interview that 24 may wrap with eight television seasons.E! Online: Will Jack Bauer Die on the Big Screen? (January 14, 2009) However, a full-length film for the silver screen has been given thought and may very well provide a final wrap-up for 24.E! Online: Will Jack Bauer Die on the Big Screen? (January 14, 2009) Numerous times throughout the interview, Gordon declared that death was imminent for Jack Bauer, though never specifically mentioned a planned on-screen death for him.E! Online: Will Jack Bauer Die on the Big Screen? (January 14, 2009)

  Kiefer Sutherland implied his character will killed off at the end of season 7 when he said in a January 2009 interview, "'I see Jack as a really human figure and there is something innately tragic about people. I think there is no winning. We're all going to die. There's something really sad in that, and yet there's something really beautiful and hopeful."Now Magazine: Only One More (January 17, 2009)

• Awards

  24 has won numerous Emmy Awards, particularly in technical categories such as Sound Mixing. In 2002, Surnow and Cochran won for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, and the show took home Outstanding Drama Series in 2006. It has also won 2 Golden Globes, for Best Dramatic Series in 2004, and for Kiefer Sutherland's performance as Bauer in 2002, for the shows first season.

• Controversy

  Because it deals with issues of counter-terrorism and plots against Homeland Security, and because creator Joel Surnow is an outspoken conservative, 24 has become a much-discussed and politicized series.

  The Council on American-Islamic Relations had complained that the series implied that harm or discrimination against Muslims is condoned. In February of 2007, the New Yorker reported that U.S. Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan and several CIA experts met with the producers of 24 to express their concern about the shows depiction of American operatives torturing terrorists. Specifically, the concerns were over depictions of torture that could do damage to the reputation of the United States abroad and encourage real U.S. soldiers to resort to such tactics.Breitbart: Hit US television show '24' under fire from Muslim group (January 19, 2007)

  In 2006, The Heritage Foundation held a panel discussion, moderated by 24 fan Rush Limbaugh, about 24 and America's image in fighting terrorism."TV Squad: Rush Limbaugh defends 24, says there are no sharks in sight (May 19, 2007)

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