Rewrites Derail 24 Shoot Sked Till October 9

More issues for this show.

Entertainment Weekly's Dan Snierson reports on their website that the show's seventh season will stop shooting after Sept. 15 in order to retool the season-ending episodes:

"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.

Production shutdowns are usually cause for concern -- and 24 is coming off its least critically beloved season -- but Howard assures fans that everything will be on track, and the season will not be interrupted. He says that the show is ahead of schedule, which means the airing of season 7 -- which begins in January 2009 -- will not be affected.

Conspiracy Theory TV Junkie (meaning me with a different hat) always harkens back to the post about how the 24 crew (which includes some friends of Druggy Limbaugh) were trying to make some point about women in power by hiring an out lesbian to play the first female POTUS in history and now that conspiracy theorist inside me is thinking that they had to make some changes due to the choice of Sarah Palin by their brethren as the Rethug VP choice.

Whaddaya think? Am I crazy? Or am I crazy?

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