Production On Fox’s 24 To Shut Down

Problems continue to plague Kiefer Sutherland’s action drama television series “24″. The latest is a planned shut down of production on the seventh season, now filming its eighteenth episode of the season.

“We had a couple of scripts that we weren’t happy with,” 24 exec producer Howard Gordon tells EW.com. “We just couldn’t get this direction to work, and we found another one that we liked better, so we wound up retooling it.”

“The only, only, only concern at all is getting it right,” Howard says. “Our feeling was this: We’re so happy with what we’ve done so far, and to the extent that we had that luxury [of time], we said, ‘Why not make it as good as we could?’”

So are things really as good as Howard says or are there deeper problems here to be worried about? Last season was disappointing, so I’m really hoping they’re tweaking things to get it right this time around. I’m definitely still looking forward to Jon Voight’s inclusion in this fall’s prequel “24″ movie. What about you?

Source: EW & /film