Well, here we go, yet another blog about one of the great television shows ending it’s series run.  But I’m not here to discuss the finale or debate whether or not this show ended on a high note ( well, not really anyway ).  What I really wanted to do was pay respect to the post production of one of the recent shows whose decided to pack it in after many years of entertaining us all, that show was 24.  As an editor myself, one of the many draws that had me watching 24 for the last eight seasons was the way the stories were told from an editing standpoint.  I’ve never seen a show that did such a unique and brilliant job of bringing in it’s story lines and make such creative use of split screens as 24 did.  When the show first aired, I was completely enthralled with the originality of how it displayed real time and made use of multiple screen shots.  Now after eight seasons, I can actually say that I feel that this show should go down in the annals of television as one of the most original and creative of it’s kind ( at least certainly from an editing standpoint ) .  Read More