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24 TV series
24 (Twenty Four) is a current U.S. television action/drama series, produced by the Fox Network for Ron Howard's Imagine Television and syndicated worldwide.
Each season covers the events of one day in the life of federal agent Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland. The show also follows Jack's colleagues at the Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles, as well as the actions of both various terrorists and the White House.
This real-time nature of 24 gives the show a strong sense of urgency, emphasized by the ticking of an on-screen digital clock appearing from time to time. Throughout every episode the action switches between different locations, following the parallel adventures of different characters all involved in the same story. 24 was created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and premiered in 2001. Season synopses: Every season so far follows a similar format, centering on Jack Bauer and the elite Counter Terrorist Unit dealing with a central threat posed to national security, including terrorists in later seasons. Surprise sacrifices, backstabbings, and other plot twists are common. Besides the central threat, each season has several major subplots that span the majority of the episodes and become interwoven with the main plot, which itself tends to change once or twice as a season progresses. Throughout each season, Jack Bauer often faces intense personal anguish in addition to his tasks to stop the terrorists. Each season runs in "real-time" and starts at a different time on different days. The show is set largely in Los Angeles, so the "time" is set in Pacific Standard Time. Every episode begins with: "The following takes place between [time] and [time]."
Popular and critical acclaim: 24 has received critical and popular acclaim, and has become a true "watercooler show." However, the necessities of its format sometimes lead to egregious padding and manifest absurdities. For example, traffic jams are surprisingly uncommon for a show set mostly in Southern California, which along with the fact that the main characters never seem to use the bathroom, have become popular subjects of parody and stand-up humor throughout the show's history, and call upon the audience for a considerable amount of suspension of disbelief. However, some argue that because the show takes place in real time, and often cuts between characters and scenes, that it is not necessary to show characters actually using restrooms, or even consuming food (although the latter has been shown a few times in past seasons, perhaps to emphasize the real time aspect of the show). So although they are not often seen doing these things, proponents feel that it still happens, only off the screen, and thus, is implied. In the first season, Kiefer Sutherland, who plays the main character Jack Bauer, won a Golden Globe for his performances; Surnow and Cochran (the creators of the show) won an Emmy Award. In 2004, the show won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Series. 24 won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing For A Drama Series, Outstanding Single-Camera Sound Mixing For A Series, Outstanding Casting For A Drama Series, and Outstanding Stunt Coordination. Kiefer Sutherland also picked up the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in 2004 and 2006. Real-time nature of 24: 24 is a thriller that purports to be shown in "real-time", with each minute of airtime corresponding to a minute in the lives of the characters. This real-time nature is emphasized by an on-screen digital clock appearing from time to time--this corresponds to the exact minute of the broadcast hour, counting commercial time. Since it is an American commercial-television series, almost one-quarter of 24's time is spent on commercials, resulting in episodes that last about forty-four minutes. Elsewhere there may be no commercials in the middle of the episodes (e.g. on BBC and on the DVD versions), so the clock 'jumps' where commercials are planned for the United States, and is thus not strictly real-time. Action that takes place during the commercials or clock jumps is not shown. Mundane actions (such as car journeys) are either skipped just as they are in conventional drama, or briefly shown in split-screen panels, which quickly update the audience on what characters not currently featured in the main narrative are doing. Some footage, of course, may be edited for syndicated versions to accommodate more commercials. 24 (season 6) The United States government and his family would not be notified, he would have no chance of escape. He eventually broke and told the Chinese that the man that led the raid was Jack Bauer. The Chinese contacted the American Government and demanded that the US government hand Bauer over so that he could be placed in a Chinese prison camp, where he would spend the rest of his life. Rather than risk confrontation with China, the White House ordered Jack to turn himself in to the Chinese government. However, Walt Cummings ordered the Secret Service agent that was going to arrest Jack to kill him instead. Jack was warned of this by David Palmer and faked his own death. At the end of the fifth season, after having spent the intervening eighteen months in hiding, Jack was captured by the Chinese and was last seen imprisoned on a Shanghai registered container ship. Jack's girlfriend
Audrey Raines notices his disappearance and reports it to CTU.
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