03.03 | 'Pure 24'
The ever lovely Tamzin Sylvester (who, frankly, should get a cameo in the main series as Jack's squeeze) is getting to grips with the horror that must be presenting a live TV show.
Dennis Haysbert (who plays President Palmer) obviously has a very tight schedule - probably because he's promoting his new film - and could only spare a minute for an interview. A shame, because the stars of the show are more interesting than the lame 'personalities' who are on 'purely' (do you see what I did there?) to promote the rest of the BBC3 line-up.
Other guests included some bird off some shit BBC3 sitcom that no one watches, some Radio One presenter that no one listens to, and the bloke off Newsround who no one cares about now he's traded off to 'be' the dull fill-in presenter on Channel 4 News. Frankly, if the production staff can't be bothered to get any decent guests to appear on the show, then I can't be bothered to write about it.
Thanks, you've made my job a whole lot easier. And next week I'll take an extra half an hour in bed, unless you can get tastier 'stars' on. I mean, you're going to have problems getting 48 real celebrity '24' fans to appear over the next six months, so why not get someone interesting, like a real life counter terrorism expert who can tell us how true to life the show is? Or a real life presidential aide, or a real life dumb blonde teenage au pair? Otherwise you'll end up with 'celebs' like John Ritter or Matthew Kelly on the couch.
John Ritter? Who? Exactly.
PS: - Can anyone confirm that I wasn't just dreaming things last and that it was mostly the same studio audience as last week's? I recognised two of the women straight off in the first shot, and then my paranoid state was heightened by the fact that they were both asked to speak later in the show. Could I be deeply sad enough to identify two girls off the telly from only a five second shot? Or are they really just actors employed because the BBC can't let the real fans talk on telly because, like me, they're all geeky fan-boys?
