24 hours in the Big Apple

24 is one of my favorite shows on television. I thought it slipped a little last season (how many times can Jack Bauer be arrested, or switch from friend of CTU to enemy, in one season?) but it's still one of the top 10 shows on television. Now, it has a shot at being even better. One of my big gripes with last season was the setting. Los Angeles has a certain character, but the character just got old this year. Now with producer Joel Surnow revealing that:

"We are in conversations about shooting some stuff in New York for [next] season,"

The show has the opportunity to employ one of the great character actors in the history of motion pictures, New York City. I think it's the perfect time to make this move. Most of Jack's supporting cast from earlier seasons are either dead (Tony Almeda, Michelle Dessler, David Palmer) or uninterested in doing the show anymore (Kim Palmer, Audrey Raines). Those characters that remain, like Chloe and Buchanon, can easily be shifted out to the east coast. It could be a shot in the arm for a show that I thought spent most of last season treading water. My big worry? The major threat has escalated every season. Will the producers feel comfortable subjecting NYC to even the threat of a major terrorist attack in the post 9/11 world?

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