04.29 | '24' : An hour of realism
"For it to have any believability and resonance, we had to deal in the world we're living with, and the terrorists are the jihadists," Mr. Surnow says. "It wouldn't feel realistic if you did anything else."
Labeling the show as conservative-leaning is "a fair assessment," says Mr. Surnow. "Doing something with any sense of reality to it seems conservative."
That kind of defiance of Hollywood groupthink has right-wing talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh paying notice. Both hosts have given generous airtime to the show's story lines, with Mr. Limbaugh bragging about meeting the show's creators and visiting the set in recent weeks.
Christian Toto of the Washington Times interviews Joel Surnow, the co-creator of '24', who talks about the show's new conservative cult following.
Labeling the show as conservative-leaning is "a fair assessment," says Mr. Surnow. "Doing something with any sense of reality to it seems conservative."
That kind of defiance of Hollywood groupthink has right-wing talk show hosts like Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh paying notice. Both hosts have given generous airtime to the show's story lines, with Mr. Limbaugh bragging about meeting the show's creators and visiting the set in recent weeks.
