By Yoree Koh
Jack Bauer is so tough he can save the world seven times in one week and set a new Guinness World Record without any shuteye.
Associated Press
- Actor Kiefer Sutherland poses during a promotional event of “24″ in Tokyo Nov. 16.
At least that’s what the Fox television network in Japan has aimed for this week. It has been running all seven seasons of the drama “24” nonstop to get fans amply pumped for the eighth and final season. Fox, owned by News Corp, which also owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said it plans to broadcast the last season, or day rather, sometime this year. Secret agent Bauer finally went into retirement in the U.S. in May when the series finale was broadcast.
The 168 hour marathon that began on Jan. 1 is homing in on a new world record for the “longest uninterrupted transmission of a TV series.” The existing record was set in 2008 when a German pay-TV channel broadcast the 236 episodes that comprised the decade-long series of “Friends” in its entirety – that’s 118 hours of watching Ross and Rachel pine for one another.
The stop-at-nothing counter-terrorism specialist Jack Bauer was one of the biggest overseas dramas to hit Japan among Fox’s basket of shows playing here in recent years, according to Fox Japan. While the network declined to disclose total Japanese viewership over the years, the series has consistently ranked among the top overseas DVD rentals. The final season was the only TV series ranked in the top 20 most rented overseas DVDs in December, according to Tsutaya, a Japanese entertainment chain store.
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