Why wait 25 years to remake a show when you can do almost the same thing 6 weeks after the show in question started ? Even if the great Kiefer Sutherland is involved, the parallel with The Following is just too obvious :
NBC has offered Kiefer Sutherland a starring role in the pilot The Black List, a provocative new development that doesn't seem to bode well for the future of Touch on FOX.
From Jon Bokenkamp, The Black List is about how the world's most wanted criminal mysteriously turns himself in and offers to give up everyone he has ever worked with. His only condition is he will only work with a newly minted FBI agent with whom he seemingly has no connection.
Sutherland has been offered the role of the criminal. It's a second position offer, since no decision has been made on the future of the Sutherland starrer Touch. But FOX can't be pleased with how the second year drama is performing on Fridays : last week, the series averaged 2.7 million viewers and a mere .7 rating in A18-49.
FOX is expected to announce the season finale dates for Touch and its other series by tomorrow. It’s unlikely Fox will let viewers know about the drama’s fate until closer to the New York Upfronts in May.
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Kiefer, go work on pay cable or on FX / AMC, damn it ! Though he does make a great villain.
By the way, if you gave up on Touch last year (can't be blamed for that), you should know that 4 episodes in, season 2 is pretty good so far, imo. More energetic, more serialized, we don't lose time with useless characters (that ultimately are connected to each another) but instead it focuses on AsterCorp and the 36 chosen ones. I like what I'm seeing so far. Sure, it's not must-see TV, but it's definitely interesting. I hope Tim Kring planned an endgame for this, because story-wise it could very well end in 9 episodes (it's not a story meant to last many seasons anyway), and ratings-wise it will definitely end in 9 episodes.
So, this will bring up the question : when is the 24 movie going to be made ? Kiefer could have a very open schedule soon. Not that story-wise there is a need to have a feature follow-up, episode 8.24 is a series finale, but it could be interesting, as long as Fox doesn't turn it into Die Hard - even though there hasn't been a Die Hard film since 2007, wink (though some could argue that there hasn't been a Die Hard film since 1995).
Serial killer? FBI? OMG, you're right, it's basically the same show.
ReplyDeleteOh god just no, too many similar shows around, Cult, The Following, Hannibal.
ReplyDeleteGeesh, what's next? Before you know it, they'll remake a show that hasn't even premiered yet.
ReplyDeleteAll that aside, seeing Sutherland in a villainish role would be nice (I enjoyed his performance in the webseries The Confession very much). I kind of hope they stop Touching (zing!) Kiefer and let him star in a better project
Ugh!! .... nothing like originality..
ReplyDeleteWTH? Kiefer, get to the 24 movie already!!! Seriously this is just stupid! Is it April 1st or something?
ReplyDeleteHey if it's good I like the idea but I would love it if they saved it to make it a few years from now, or a lot o years, even better
ReplyDeleteAll the networks are trying to find their own "The Walking Dead" and "Modern Family". 2 shows with the biggest ratings around. Not sure if it's possible to get another "Big Bang Theory".
ReplyDeleteWell if it has Kiefer Sutherland, then I'll be watching it, but I want the 24 movie now!
ReplyDeletewell thats Touch's cancellation confirmation right there
ReplyDeleteMy interest in The Following is already falling drasticly, so I doubt I´ll be watching this.
ReplyDeletewow, this is ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteYeah its like after Lost got big they all tried to have a sci-fi hit but they always failed like The Event, V, FlashForward.
ReplyDeleteBoo hiss - I want more Touch. This season is great and I definitely see potential for a third, story-wise.
ReplyDelete24 was an awesome show and Kiefer Sutherland is an awesome actor, but I personally do NOT want a 24 movie unless it is on TV. Sure, I'll still see it in the theaters but to make a big screen movie out of it, it sort of betrays those fans that loyally spent nine years on the show, watching it for free on TV. The last I heard, it won't be in real time which I don't see why they won't do that, because Redemption was in real time. If they do make a 24 movie which I doubt they will, it won't be anytime in the next five years, I think.
ReplyDeleteI'm actually the opposite way, I too thought that 24 was an awesome show but I do want a 24 movie regardless if its on TV or not. Redemption worked as a TV movie in real time because it was a set up for Season 7. It will be weird having the change to not real time and the movie covering the whole day in 2 hours, but I think they could pull it off well enough, plus it would eliminate some of the slower/stupider things that happened in the days. I know Kiefer's been trying to get it going since the show ended, I'd actually expect a movie in the next 2 years.
ReplyDeleteThey're all trying to throw everything onto the board and see what sticks...for at least 4 seasons :)
ReplyDeleteA lot of comedy pilots are following the "Modern Family" type vein. There are a ton of book/comic/etc adaptations like "The Walking Dead".
Upfronts most likely will be a bloodbath.
...Seriously?
ReplyDeleteTo play devils advocate here it is near impossible, and silly, to accuse a show of being a rip off based on a logline, which is extremely generic. The characters, actual plot, and execution could end up different enough to not feel like The Following at all.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most annoying quality of TV fans.
Interesting, but agreed too much like the Following...Kiefer played a pretty menacing bad guy on his web series the Confession
ReplyDeleteI have to say, I don't think it is all that similar.... just cause they both are about a criminal and an FBI agent doesn't automatically make then identical.
ReplyDeleteexactly!
ReplyDeleteAlso, this does not sound at all like The Following to me apart from the jumping off point where a criminal surrenders himself but has some plan. Joe never says he will work only with Hardy and we know right away why Joe is interested in Hardy. And we don't yet know what this guy's plan is in this series. It's too soon to tell.