01.26 | 'Best Drama Series' goes to '24'

The Golden Globes award for 'Best Drama Television Series' goes to '24'. Well done to everyone who made it happen.

01.26 | '24' at the Golden Globes

It's the Golden Globes award ceremony right now. Here's Elisha Cuthbert and here's Reiko Aylesworth.

Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert of the TV show '24' wore a 1950s-inspired look with a strapless, pale pink organza cocktail dress by Monique Lhuillier, accessorized with a small bouquet of roses at the waist.

"It's a little prom queen, but I love it," Cuthbert told Melissa Rivers on E! Entertainment Television. "I wanted to do simple; I didn't want to do too crazy."

Her '24' co-star Kiefer Sutherland, a nominee Sunday night, was also on hand. "The real pressure is that the fans have really enjoyed the first two seasons and there is a pressure in trying to maintain that level of quality," he said during an interview on the red carpet.

UPDATE: '24' won 'Best Drama Television Series', apparently. About four minutes ago. It merits one line in this BBC report. Stands to reason, really.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Kiefer Sutherland didn't win the 'Best Actor in a Drama Television Series' award, which went to Anthony LaPaglia for 'Without A Trace', whatever that is.

01.22 | The 24th hole

President Palmer plays golf, as reported in The Desert Sun.

Actor Dennis Haysbert, of the hit Fox show '24', said he had fun playing in his first year at the Classic last year, but had some reservations.

"I don’t want to repeat some of the mistakes," Haysbert said.

Pressed about what his mistake was, Haysbert dodged the question.

"Oh God, I don’t like to talk about them," Haysbert said. "I would like to leave them to memory, but I had a bad experience on the 10th tee (at Bermuda Dunes). It won’t happen again."

UPDATE: More on that top golfing story. Hopefully Haysbert is doing well.

01.20 | '24' comes to Sky One 1st February 2004

Could we have finally found out when the next series of '24' is due to hit the UK? On the Radio Times website's TV listings, 10PM - 11PM on Sunday 1st February is "to be announced".

Either that or it's an episode of 'When Sex Goes Wrong' to fill in for a week before '24' starts. Who knows, eh?

UPDATE: Obviously our spies aren't as clever as they thought; the new Sky subscribers' magazine says that the start date is Thursday 12th February at 9PM. Oops.

01.18 | Sutherland Explains Cell Phone Time

"It has become a device where my character can internalize a panic, can express a thousand different things while having a conversation with someone else and have a vocal tone that's completely betraying everything else that you can see," he said.

01.18 | Tony Blair's "24 hours to save the Government"

If you are familiar with the superb US television series, 24, you will understand why some of the Prime Minister's allies have suddenly started to nickname him "Agent Tony". In the hit series, which is filmed in "real time" over 24 hours, the intrepid federal agent Jack Bauer overcomes apparently insuperable odds to save the world from all kinds of villainy.

Senior Blairites - slightly unhinged, I think, by Friday's headlines about "24 hours to save the Government" - believe that their boss can pull off the same round-the-clock triumph next week, when he faces the knife-edge Commons vote on top-up fees only a few hours before the publication of the Hutton Report. "If Jack Bauer can do it, so then can Tony," one of Mr Blair's closest allies told me. To which one could only respond: if you say so.

UPDATE: The Guardian makes the same 'joke'. Aww, bless 'em.

01.12 | Mountain lion attacks kill 1, injure 1

Some advice for Kim Bauer from the San Francisco Chronicle:

Tips by the state Department of Fish and Game on how to avoid mountain lions in the wild and what to do if attacked:

Don't hike alone. Go in groups, with adults supervising children.

Do not approach a lion. Most mountain lions will try to avoid a confrontation. Give them a way to escape.

Do not run from a lion. Running may stimulate the lion's instinct to chase. Instead, stand and face the animal, and try to make yourself appear bigger. Raise your arms. Open your jacket.

Pick up your children, so they won't run. Even though it may be awkward, lift them without bending over or turning your back on the lion. A person squatting could look like four-legged prey to the creature.

Speak in a loud voice. Throw stones, branches, whatever you can reach without crouching or turning your back.

If attacked, fight back.

01.10 | 'MI-5' doesn't compare to '24'

While talking about the counter-terrorism expert he plays on British series 'MI-5', Matthew Macfadyen called him 'Jack Bauer-esque'. Did that mean, then, that he's a fan of '24', the series where Kiefer Sutherland plays the sweaty terrorist-chasing Bauer?

"Oh, (bleep), yeah," Macfadyen said. "I've just watched the whole second season on DVD.... It's like eating cream cakes."

01.10 | Bad Santa

"Kiefer Sutherland reportedly spent Christmas Eve getting trashed at a bar in Park City, Utah. A spy at the bar told New York magazine that a slovenly, and ugly, drunk Kiefer, pants sagging down past his ass to expose his BVD butt-huggers, punched a Santa Claus doll in front of a store in the nose on his stumble home after last call."

01.10 | Kiefer cops to drug past

Kiefer Sutherland says he never could handle smoking pot, although he enjoyed the ritual of preparing cocaine and he compared his hit real-time TV show to "Dynasty on crack."

In a wide-ranging interview in the February issue of Playboy, the 38-year-old star of the Fox series 24 said his main experience with marijuana was an embarrassing tale of buying pot on the streets of New York. "I had a girlfriend and she suggested pot was good for sex. So I went running to Central Park and picked up a dime bag. We smoked it while watching TV. Before you knew it we were kissing and starting to make love. I got really stoned."