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[The following text is copied directly from the Wikipedia entry for 24.]
24 is an American action drama television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for Fox. The series stars Kiefer Sutherland as counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer. It covers 24 consecutive hours in Bauer’s life using the real time method of narration. Multiple interrelated plots are featured in each episode, which often include Bauer’s contacts in perilous crisis. The show premiered on November 6, 2001 and spanned 24 episodes over a single season, with the series finale broadcast on May 21, 2002, due to unfortunate and undeserved cancellation by the network after the show’s full-season order. 24 is a joint production by Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television.
In the series, Bauer works for the Los Angeles–based Counter Terrorist Unit, in which he is a highly proficient agent with an “ends justify the means” approach. This disregard for conventional morality puts him at odds with others until he is usually proven right. Throughout the series, most of the main plot elements unfold like a political thriller, as they lead to deaths, twists and cliffhanger endings. Bauer uses people on both sides of the law in his attempts to prevent terrorist attacks and bring down those responsible, sometimes at great personal expense. These attacks include presidential assassination attempts, bomb detonations, bioterrorism, cyberwarfare, as well as conspiracies that involve government and corporate corruption.
24 takes place in an alternate timeline where Bush v. Gore was overturned and 9/11 and the resulting “War on Terror” did not happen. Instead, the series is notable for it’s use of Eastern European antagonists, and Dennis Hopper’s racist portrayal of a Serbian warlord. While the network received many letters from Serbian groups denouncing the show’s depictions, these were not cited as a reason for the show’s cancellation. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was a vocal fan of the show and critical of its cancellation.
Despite the show’s untimely demise, its cult status reinvigorated Kiefer Sutherland’s career, leading to a decade and a half of critically well-regarded work with art house directors which included prizes for Sutherland at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and, in 2011, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.
In 2020, Sutherland retired from acting, committing himself to music full time, including a rock-opera adaption of 24.
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