Joel Surnow, who is the creator of action series "24," recently admitted that Kiefer Sutherland wasn't originally thought of to play the role of Jack Bauer, because they were searching for someone younger than he was.
Once he thought of Sutherland, Surnow realized he could play the part of having a 16-year-old daughter, while still appealing to the younger demographic that tunes in to Fox (NWS-A).
Surnow said, "We'd conceived Jack as a guy who had a 16-year-old daughter but was still youthful enough to appeal to the Fox audience, which is skewed towards 'young'.
"When we heard Kiefer's name it was like, 'Bingo, this is the perfect guy.' He's got enough miles on him but he still has echoes of the Brat Pack films he's associated with."
After the year-after-year success of the show, I don't think Surnow is sorry about the decision.
This year they're changing the location of city the unit operates in, to shake things up a bit and keep people interested.
The potentially popular show "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," will be the lead-in show for the series when it launches again in January 2008.
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