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Still waiting for 24 to make its way to the big screen? It's not happening, according to director Antoine Fuqua. At least not with him at the helm.

“The Hour,” a BBC America series starting on Wednesday, is a thriller that blends the Suez crisis in Britain with a more intimate look at sex, ambition and espionage in the workplace, around 1956.

With the greatest stories, the answers you get can be better than the questions you ask. For six spellbinding years, Lost trapped its characters inside TV's most ingeniously constructed puzzle, leaving you to wonder why they're there and how they'll escape. In Sunday's emotional feast of a finale (* * * * out of four) — one that can stand with the best any series has produced — we discovered that Lost wasn't just interested in answering questions about the island and its residents, though the major ones were, indeed, answered.

How many more ways could Jack Bauer have saved the homeland from a world of terrorists?

The drama "24" won't be ticking much longer on TV. Fox announced Friday that its action-packed real-time show starring Kiefer Sutherland as anti-terrorism agent Jack Bauer will wind down at the end of its current eighth season on May 24.

Sutherland said in a statement that the show's cast and crew "always wanted '24' to finish on a high note, so the decision to make the eighth season our last was one we all agreed upon." He also said he was looking forward to creating a film version of "24."

Production of the Fox network thriller "24" has been temporarily shut down so that star and executive producer Kiefer (KEE'-fur) Sutherland can undergo surgery....

Lynette Rice: Insider confirms talks with a screenwriter; next move may hinge on Fox TV's decision on renewal.

Poor Jack Bauer. He's gone from saving the world to dozing off on a couch while his granddaughter watches cartoons. Still looking as though he's feeling some of the effects from his exposure to a bioweapon and the subsequent stem cell surgery, Bauer is hanging around New York with his daughter, Kim, and her milquetoast husband, who are getting ready to return to Los Angeles and want him to join them. Bauer seems to move a little slower and is unsuccessfully trying to convince himself that he's ready for life as a grandpa and, gasp, a desk jockey back in Los Angeles.

One of "24's" favorite villains, former president Charles Logan, is coming back. Gregory Itzin has signed for a multiepisode arc on the upcoming eighth season.