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Forever delayed

In the last couple of days I’ve learnt two annoying and disheartening facts.
Annoying and disheartening fact number one: Although the Hollywood writers’ strike has now ended, the somewhat silly but utterly fantastic 24 will not return until January 2009. Damn it!
When the strike began in November, eight episodes had been filmed, so it wouldn’t take [...]

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Seein’ CNN again

Lord’s Hotel has CNN (not CNN IBN like other places). I like that. Although the amount of adverts annoyed me, CNN was my channel of choice early in my contract in Korea, and watching it now and occasionally back in Britain reminds me of that time; in fact, it’s the jingles that are the most [...]

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From Family Guy’s full-length skit of Star Wars: A New Hope. Here’s the complete scrolling text at the beginning:
It is a time of civil war, and renegade paragraphs floating through space.
There’s cool space battles, and the bad guy is the good guy’s dad, but you don’t find that out ’til the next episode.
And the hot [...]

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Luke/Chris and Leia/Lois in Family Guy’s full-length skit of Star Wars: A New Hope.

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Bruce Dickinson talking about driving a tank on the Discovery Channel’s The Greatest Ever: Tanks.

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Previously on Amazon.com

I’ve seen some 24 tie-in novels at What the Book in Itaewon, and, while I’ve been tempted to try one, I’ve also been wary of potential literary trash. Well, out of curiosity, I just googled ‘operation hell gate 24 review’ and found a link to Amazon.com not the best source of reviews, but I thought [...]

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Previously on 24

I’ve been meaning to write another post about 24 for a while now, but haven’t got round to it. However, now seems like a good time to do so. Please be warned, this post contains spoilers.
Season4 had a pretty stunning and chilling opening, with former President Palmer being shot dead, and, as usual, I streamed [...]

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Last night I watched four episodes of Day 4 of 24 - which means I’m now about half-way through that particular season. Day 3 was thrilling pretty much from the get-go, but this season has been slower moving, more considered. The plot also seems more cohesive. In Day 3, everything changed about after the sixth [...]

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