It's a dramatic formula that's popular with the public and sells well--24 had its eight or nine successful seasons, CoE got great ratings for a show on a "second-tier" cable network--and that's all that really matters in his business, and he's found a network that won't ask him to tone down Jack's whole omni-thing (according to that Variety interview), so, RTD's probably pretty happy with how it all worked out. It's apparently a ten-episode serial arc set up with a conscious end-point like CoE was, and will be written so new viewers don't have to know anything about prior seasons--so the people I've seen assuming there'll be "closure" on or reference back to this or that past plotline might be disappointed. It also sounds like the entire supporting cast is probably going to be American actors.