Mark your calendars

The new season of Fox’s 24 starts on October 29th. As a bonus, there won’t be any commercials (of course, since I usually TiVo it, this is nothing new). It does raise an interesting question, though: since the show ostensibly takes place in real time, the writers are used to using the occasional 5-minute commercial break to let something (like part of a car trip) happen off-camera. Now they have an extra 16 minutes to fill. I can’t wait!