Rumours abound of 24’s renewal for a fifth season. This is basically as we figured. After all, 24 has become FOX’s flagship show, so if s4 were really to be the end of the series, the network would be plastering and whoring the fact all over the TV at every available opportunity and there would be a lot more media attention. There has been no official confirmation of a fifth season yet, but we fully expect the announcement any day now. Along these lines, aintitcoolnews has reported that “Lost” writer David Fury has joined the creative team for 24 (we assume for the fifth season, as filming for the s4 finale has already wrapped). If this is true, I see it as a good move. Lost is definitely the best series to premiere this year, and probably the best series overall to premiere since 24 first came out in 2001. The writing for Season 5 can only get better, because I don’t see how it can get much worse.

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One of Kat’s contacts passed on this little gem to us – a video of Kiefer Sutherland doing a 24-themed commercial in Japan for something called “Calorie-Mate.” My favourite part is when Jack takes a bite of the Calorie-Mate and then says “Tony, we’ve just touched down…” into his phone. I had no idea Kiefer was whoring out 24 to sell meal replacement snacks in Japan!

Hmmm… well, I have to say that after all my bitching and whining over the last few weeks regarding the suckitude of s4, last night’s episode was a welcome respite from boredom and frustration with where the show has gone and, despite the severe lack of any interesting Tony action, I truly enjoyed it.

I love Mike Novick, and you should too! He completely hasn’t changed a bit, and I loved how even after everything that happened, he still respects Palmer to the highest level and knows him so well — “when was your last intelligence briefing?”. He totally knows that Palmer would take full advantage of his right as a former President to intelligence briefings without having to ask! Speaking of Palmer … PALMER! The return of David Palmer to Season 4 was hardly a massive plot twist or totally shocking, but it was certainly welcome and also believable. I can’t wait to see Jack, Palmer and Tony back in action together. And I love how the actors are so committed to their characters’ little idiosyncrasies, like Tony and his soul patch and his Cubs mug, or in the case of Palmer, that magentized copper bracelet he always wears.

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Happy Holy Day to all. Just a quick update to say that my Marie Warner Icon received an honourable mention in this week’s 24_contest icon competition. Thanks to anyone who voted for me.

In the meantime, I’d like to share with our readers a little commentary from Katarina on the subject of what many of us have noticed and I’ve taken the liberty of dubbing “The Dumbing Down of TV’s Smartest Series.” Kat originally posted this message on our forum, but it deserves an audience from our regular readers. We invite your feedback over at our forum.

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Is anyone else pissed that the Palmer we were promised in episode 18 never materialized?

Also, one of our regular readers sent me an interesting e-mail yesterday about more production detail sloppiness. The van Dina and Jack get into when they are brought to Marwan’s hideout, and that Dina’s body is later discovered in, had the same license plate number (6CVA322) as the van Marwan was riding in in Monday night’s episode. I guess the props people could only get their hands on one fake LA license plate this season. Thanks to Marilyn for this observation.

For the second time this season, it seems the casting department ran dry of good Middle Eastern actors, recasting Nicholas Guilak (Farhad Saleem of Season 2) as Yosik Khatami. At least this time he had different facial hair and his demeanor was different enough that it was not entirely obvious right away that he was a recast. This is not quite a brutal as the whole Faheen debacle, but still … some of us out here are still paying attention to the details even if the creators have decided to give up on that.

I dunno, I’m starting to just want this season put out of its misery. How many more times can Curtis torture people or Marwan escape and one-up the threat level YET AGAIN. And, I apologize if I sound like a broken record, but can’t Edgar just DIE already???? This is all so repetitive. I don’t even feel anxious about what will happen next. All I care about right now is seeing FHTMA 3. Oh, and Novick. Novick was practically the only thing that made this last episode bearable. 24, what has happened to you? Why have you forsaken me??!!??

Hallelujah and Praise Tony! At long last this site has been brought up to date. Though I warn you in advance there is a LOT of bitching about how crappy the plot has gotten this season.

Would also like to take a moment to say that the first 10-11PM debrief between me and Kat has me in a very negative place regarding my girl Michelle. Matt later talked me down off the ledge during the lost TGOVD chat, so this does not reflect my current feelings towards her. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the updates and again I apologize for the huge delay. Life is so crazy right now! That will change though, because Kat and I have made a formal plan to share the updates workload from now on, which should put an end to the long waiting periods between updates. We know our readers need their Tony fix and we are again here to reliably provide it!

Things have been insanely busy for me this last two weeks. Work has been mad with an upcoming tradeshow. Kat has offered to help me out by doing the updates for the last two episodes. They will be posted as soon as she gets back to me with the content.

In other news, Mike Novick is back! Fucking NOVICK! Awesome! Was everyone else this happy to see him? Though the writers could have done more to build up his return, it’s still awesome and wonderful to see a familiar face.

My overall impression of this episode was not all that stellar. Once again, the writers have gotten lazy and changed the course of the plot completely midstream instead of following through with the mess they created in the first place. This tactic is really getting on my nerves. To read more, check out this thread on our Forum.

Happy holy day to all. As you can see, I was unable to complete the updates this weekend. I had housework coming out the yinyang and I really needed to get it done. I fully intended to take care of the site as well, but I simply ran out of time. My boyfriend and I have tickets to Queens of the Stone Age tonight, so I won’t even be seeing tonight’s episode until the wee hours of the morning or tomorrow evening. I have a lot of work to do with updating two episodes now, but that’s what happens when one starts a dedicated website like this and then suddenly acquires a life. All I can do is apologize, really. One of these days, I will get a nice big chunk of time to devote to all the things I wanna add to this site, but unfortunately, things are too hectic right now. I know, excuses, excuses.

In the meantime, see how compatible you are with Carlos Bernard, Reiko Aylesworth, Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Haysbert and Elisha Cuthbert based on BioRhythms.

As for the staff of AIG, Kasia boasts a 96% overall compatability with Carlos Bernard (having scores above 90% in every category), and a 99% emotional compatability with Reiko Aylesworth. Matt boasts at 100% intellectual compatability with Carlos Bernard. Kat boasts a 99% physical compatability with Carlos Bernard.

The Ghost of Victor Drazen has struck again! Matt and I were in the middle of what might quite possibly have been the mother of all debriefs on all manner of topics, including last night’s episode, how much we want Tony to punch Bill Buchanan in the face and about fifty possible interpretations of the phrase “legally, yes”, not to mention a great deal of discussion of the evolution of Tony overall, as well as overall scope of the Tony/Michelle dynamic, not to mention the Jack/Audrey dynamic. We had been talking for about 3 hours when TGOVD decided to fucking overheat my computer, causing it to spontaneously turn itself off with no warning BEFORE I saved the transcript of this crucial conversation. Matt tells me I should live in the now and not worry, but I was really upset that none of you will get to read this discussion, as it was the very best debrief AIG staff has conducted since the end of season 3 and definitely the best T/M related debrief ever! FUCKING TGOVD!!!!!

Though this debrief was lost forever, I do have an earlier convo between Kat and myself that I will post later. Hopefully all is not lost, as I’m sure Matt and I will be ripe to discuss T/M some more over the next week.

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I’m pleased to announce that major updates for Episode 15 are posted. Unfortunately, the tone of these transcripts are rather dire and rehash our overall sense of dissatisfaction with this episode, however you KNOW you wanna read ‘em. No one bit the big one in this episode (but GOD we wish Edgar would hurry up and die!).

I just wanted to take a second to address a comment made in our guestbook regarding our Top 24 Most Memorable Deaths of 24 list. It is not that we feel Alan Milliken’s death was more tragic than George Mason’s or that the loss of his character was more significant — it is only that we feel his actual death (being talked into a heart attack by Sherry and then watching Sherry convince his wife to with-hold his medication) was a more memorable scene than seeing George in the last few moments before crashing the plane. That was our point.

For a sneak-peek on the soon-to-be-released 24 PS2 game, check out this site. Includes screenshots and some very juicy tidbits on supplemental storyline info to be included in the game. Very exciting!

Also wanted to take a moment to thank all the people who have written to us over the last few weeks and given us such positive feedback on the site. We really appreciate your continued support!