Anyone who watched ‘24′ this season knows that the show is due for an overhaul.  Some storylines came around suddenly with no real exposition…some storylines, like the Logan subplot, were killed off before they could even get started…and a majority of the storylines were just rehashed from the earlier five seasons.

The show is overdue for a change.

TVGuide has the story that FOX pulled the plug on the idea of the show’s seventh season shooting in Africa, citing the expense of an overseas shoot.  ’24’s producers also attempted to find a location stateside that could stand in for Africa, but the idea was eventually scrapped as a whole.  So, the production that would normally have begun at the end of July has been pushed back to mid-August.

Is that a bad thing?  I don’t think so.  Sure, at face value, it seems like FOX is stemming the show’s creativity.  But everyone involved knows what’s at stake if the show doesn’t undergo some sort of a reinvention.  I feel like this will serve to push the developers to dig even deeper, and develop a show that will be once again worthy of the ‘24′ mantle.