05.30 | Kiefer Sutherland dates Reiko Aylesworth

Kiefer Sutherland has found new love with '24' co-star Reiko Aylesworth, according to Digital Spy.

Also, check this piece on Elisha Cuthbert talking about her 'House of Wax' co-star Paris Hilton.

UPDATE: Sky News has more on Kiefer lurves Reiko.

05.20 | Stalking Kiefer Sutherland...

This blogger bumped into Kiefer on the street and overheard him talking on his phone about his career...

05.19 | '24' season four delayed by three months

The third season finale of '24' airs in the US next Tuesday. My advice to UK viewers? Stay off the fan sites for at least another month or so. Yes, even this one. I'd rather you lot enjoy the series than happen across some anonymous Yank's throwaway comment. But anyway...

...we get our own payback on the Americans. Season four of '24' has been delayed in the US from its usual October start until January [no spoilers in that link, paranoia fans]. That's an extra three month delay for the writers to get their tricks together. So I no longer have any idea when the next series will end up on UK telly. But if we get a similar delay, it'll be summer 2005 at the earliest. So make the most of the rest of this current series...

Still, the '24' season three region II boxset is out in the UK on 23rd July. That's this year. A whole two months before the US gets their version. Ha ha.

05.16 | How '24' Jacked it up

A spoiler-free quote from last week's edition of America's 'Entertainment Weekly' magazine:

'24' is now freed of stagnant plot threads, like Jack's weekly jonesing from his deep-cover heroin addiction. "Around the 12th episode, Kiefer said, 'I don't know how much longer I can do this,'" says Gordon. (Jack was given a methadone-like fix to hold him through the season.) "But [the arc] did the trick of establishing him as someone who sacrificed so much for the job." Fine, as long as his next sacrifice isn't fighting an amnesiac cougar.

It's telling, isn't it? 'I don't know how much longer I do this'? Refering to '24'? Pretending to be a junkie? Acting out sub-standard scripts? Who knows, eh? But, yeah, fixing implausible subplots with 'a methadone-like fix to hold him through the season' is ridiculous. Does this mean Jack's addiction is completely forgotten, or are the powers that be just kidding us? I'd like to believe that latter, but I think the former's more likely.

05.13 | Sylvester Stallone in season four of '24'?

Hit US drama '24' will have a rare collection of guest stars for the new series, including Sylvester Stallone.

The Rocky star was approached by the show's producers after his latest movie Spy Kids proved to be a great success.

A source told me: "Sly is really keen to move into TV drama and loves the show."

05.13 | Kiefer Sutherland divorces Elizabeth Kelly Winn after eight years

Ladies! There's still hope for you yet: Kiefer Sutherland has filed for divorce.

The 37-year-old star of hit TV show '24' has been separated from his wife Elizabeth since 1999. The couple have no children, but she has a daughter from a previous marriage. He also has a daughter from an earlier marriage, to actress Camelia Kath.

E Online has more, as do hollywood.com and USA Today. Scotland's Daily Records reveals that the divorce settlement could cost Kiefer $3 million and a collection of guitars worth $100,000. They also go into his bank statements and earnings in some detail, fact fans.

UPDATE: Upon reading further, I'm shocked and bewildered to discover that Kiefer spends £940 a month ON LAUNDRY. I mean, HUH? That's nearly $2,000. A month! What does he do, fly each item individually to the banks of the River Nile to be handwashed by the virgin daughters of fellow Hollywood millionaires? I don't understand, I really don't. Unless the journalists made it all up, of course.

05.12 | Second season of '24' premieres on India's AXN

Think back 15 months or so. Remember how hot 'n' bothered us UK viewers were getting about the start of '24' season two? Well, Indian TV has only just got it.

India's AXN has announced that the second season of 24 will air every Monday from 17 May at 10PM. Episodes will repeat on Tuesday at noon, 4PM and on Saturdays at 9AM. Indian web users should be warned that this site contains spoilers that'll ruin the story for you. Don't say I didn't warn you.

05.12 | 53 year veteran teacher to retire

BREAKING NEWS: Dennis Haysbert's school teacher is to retire. She's been in the job for 53 years. She must be tired.

05.11 | What Jack Bauer taught Rumsfeld

I have suddenly found myself revisiting an evening in front of the telly last year. It was the second series of the show '24', in which the counter-terrorist hero, Jack Bauer, has one day to find an atomic bomb in Los Angeles. So he shoots a suspect paedophile dead and cuts off his head so as to get "in" with the terrorists. When a colleague objects, Bauer tells him, "That's the problem with people like you, George. You want results, but you never want to get your hands dirty."

Add to this culture the experience of Guantanamo and the abuses at the US detention base at Bagram in Afghanistan, detailed by Human Rights Watch in March, and perhaps we are, after all, looking at a policy and a pathology, which arises from a particular idea of the war on terror. If so, this is the point of departure for liberal interventionists. For me the entire enterprise was undertaken to show that there is a better way, and to give people the chance of experiencing it. To show that getting your hands dirty is not just unnecessary but wrong.

05.10 | A real Jem for 'The OC'

Jem Griffiths is a Welsh singer who's recently supplied songs for the soundtrack of hit teenage Dawsons-with-BIG-money-a-like show 'The OC'. UK viewers will know that 'The OC' only started in the UK on Channel 4 in April, which is why Jem has so far only seen two episodes of the show.

This could explain why the only person she recognized on the set was New Zealand actor Alan Dale, who plays Caleb Nichols, the character who got married on the show. Dale co-starred in the long-running Australian soap opera 'Neighbours' and recently played Vice President Jim Prescott on '24', of which Jem is a huge fan. "When he came over, I had to tell him: "You ousted President Palmer in '24', you bastard!'"

05.10 | Summer Releases

From a New York Times round-up of summer movies:

'Nicotina' - If Kiefer Sutherland's real-time television series is called '24', maybe this Mexican caper comedy about missing diamonds should be called '1:33'. It takes place in Mexico City between 9:17 and 10:50PM, during which time a science geek delivers the wrong computer disc to Russian gangsters, an error that has major consequences. The film stars Diego Luna ('Y Tu Mamá También'), Marta Belaustegui and Jesús Ochoa. Hugo Rodriguez directed.

05.07 | 'To End All Wars' starring Kiefer Sutherland

A hard-to-get-to, but must-see film is To End All Wars starring 24's Golden Globe winner, Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Carlyle and Ciaran McMenamin as WWII POW survivor, Ernest Gordon. This motion picture, presented by Argyll Films Partners, is a cross between Mel Gibson's 'The Passion' and 'Band of Brothers'.

05.06 | Kiefer Sutherland Greets Fans at Step-Daughter's Wedding

Hollywood actor Kiefer Sutherland today caught a rare glimpse of British sunshine as he turned out for the wedding of his step-daughter to a young Scots actor.

The Scotsman has some news on this story. MetroWest Daily News has more. The Miami Herald also has a small piece. Inside-24.com has some photos of Kiefer in kilt, taken from Hello magazine.

UPDATE: The Sunday Herald says "Be-kilted Kiefer Sutherland was at the City Chambers for the wedding of his step-daughter. According to the Daily Record, 'cars honked as he passed by'." Wowzers.

UPDATE II: IC Lanarkshire points out that Kiefer's daughter met her new hubby on the set of Kiefer's new film 'To End All Wars', as groom Adam co-stars with her daddy.

05.06 | 'Friends' farewell leaves America looking elsewhere for fashion clues

Apparently the TV sitcom 'Friends' shapes the future of fashion, according to some. Now that the series is finally ending, who'll step up to fill the void left by shaggy-haired Jennifer Aniston? Why, Elisha Cuthbert, of course...

Some think Elisha Cuthbert, who plays Kiefer Sutherland's daughter, could be a big trendsetter. "She's really cute and she's got great fashion sense," says Maren Hartman, a senior fashion design major at the University of Cincinnati. Bertke, however, isn't a fan of the straight, choppy haircut she has on the show.

05.05 | Hot babe Du Jour: Elisha Cuthbert

"He told me it was a great script but there was this porn angle to it. And I said, 'What do you mean, porn'? But when I read the script I realised it was this sweet love story. Even though my character has to get naked and do all this moaning and fake orgasm stuff, the story itself is quite funny and touching. It's really about a girl who's trying to straighten out her life and become the girl next door."

The lowbrow part I've copied below:

"There are some scenes where I'm supposed to be faking having sex and having orgasms while filmed from the male point of view, and obviously you can't have a guy there where the camera is supposed to be. So I'm actually lying on my back with a cushion on top of me and pretending to have sex while it's just me and cushion getting it on!"