Deary me, just look at the dates between this post and the last. More than a month. What the hell have I been doing?

Oh, right. 56-page magazine from the ground up.

That’s officially out the way today as it’s sent off to the printers – complete with any typos which I may have missed during four exhausting proof-readings. (I nearly cried last night when I saw “Donky Kong”, just as I finished exporting what I was confident would be the final PDF.)

The end result has really pleased me, and I really …

Bill died. Nothing else matters anymore.
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Okay so that’s a little bit melodramatic, but last week’s 24 saw the first big death of Day Seven. A heroic sacrifice leaves Jack in prime position to hunt down Jon Voight, but boy will I miss Mr Buchanan.
Looking more like someone’s grandfather this season than he has before, it was hard not to feel Jack’s pain as he sat beside Bill’s charred body  and showed Renee that yes, things do get to him.
The FBI raid was continually held up by the dumbass VP until …

Skip the previouslies, these episodes and blogs are just minutes apart in theory. Some of us had to wait a day for the Internet to provide a reasonable stream. Did I say that out loud…?
Right, well before the authorities come down on me for copyright breach and all that melarkey let’s get down to business. Juma and his men have drilled their way right into the White House sewers. Nice. A helpful caretaker lets them through and they begin stalking the White House, taking down lots and lots of Secret …

24/11 – The calm before the storm
Worried that the 24 night arc was going to be a quiet affair? It certainly doesn’t look like it as last week’s double-episode really stepped things up a notch. We’ll start with Hour 11. We know there’s going to be an attack. We know it’s going to be at the White House. The trouble is… No one else knows this.
Dubaku is lying in his hospital bed, but not for long. A shifty looking orderly slips something in his drip, causing heart failure and Renee …

Previously on 24, Jack and Renee were being dragged into custody after Slippery Sean issued a warrant for their arrest. Erica’s tracked this down, which surely means he’s in troub-… Wait, no, she’s in on it too. Guess there’s no such thing as too obvious in 24. She gets a whole lot of face time in this episode as she and Sean try to destroy Dubaku’s list, which the fleeing terrorist had kept on his person rather literally.
After forgiving Marika for betraying him, the pair were on the road to …

The clock is ticking, and we’re approaching those dangerous hours where there’s a good chance of this season’s 24 slowing down. Not so with Hour 9 of Day 7, as while the action is not as emphatic as it were in the early hours of the day there’s still a good dose of tension, even if it is a little predictable in places.
Jack and Renee’s partnership is steadily growing into something deeper, as her humanity seems to be touching Jack in ways I’m sure he didn’t see coming. But that’s …

It’s 3pm and Jack makes his first ever visit to the White House. Seriously. He’s been pally (or not-so pally) with most of the White House administration over the years, but is only now getting to poke his head through the West Wing. Although the top secret entrance which Jack and Co use may not be in the West Wing – I don’t exactly have blue prints for that sort of thing.
In the next 60 minutes, it’s all about the race to rescue the First Gent. Well, all about rescuing …

As the mile-wide posters scattered along the route from home to Sunderland reminded me a few weeks ago, “Jack’s back!” America’s most hard-worked special agent has returned to screens after an 18-month absence and I’ve finally had a chance to catch up. And this is the part where I say, “Spoilers. And lots of ‘em.”
Following the largely unimpressive sixth day in Jack’s increasingly knackering life, it was with some reservations that I stepped into the first hour of yet another long, long shift. It picks up a few months after …