Real Time Productions was a television production company founded by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, and the 24 production house from 2001 to 2008, co-producing the series with Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Television. After Surnow and Cochran left the series midway through Season 7, the company was succeeded by Howard Gordon's Teakwood Lane Productions; it is last credited in "Day 7: 7:00pm-8:00pm".