High drama! Fox TV's show "24" had its season premiere tonight. I've never watched it--and didn't tonight, either--but I've always thought it was a cool concept. Every episode unfolds in real time, one hour after the other, until by the end of 24 episodes you've been through a full 24 hours. Last year was the first season, and I'm told the crises were so severe that most of the characters stayed awake for the whole day.

I wonder if they picked up exactly where they left off, and filmed a bunch of episodes of Kiefer Sutherland sleeping, getting up to use the john, cursing himself for working too hard, sleeping again...