The first season of 24 is actually quite a good bit of TV, IMHO. It only really worked once, though, and I think it suffers from the US TV weird concept that the show is actually one hour (*) so isn't actually showing everything that happens in real time - they keep having three minute lapses. 24 also suffers from being very right wing US which is bearable for one season but gets insufferable after that, again IMHO. Season one is worth watching, I think, but a bit like Twin Peaks it really suffers if you don't start at the beginning.
I remember JMS talking about the possibility of doing a show which happened in real time. He said it would be very hard to pull off convincingly and that he would only do it on B5 if there was a story that really should be told in that format - he wouldn't do it just to do a tricky piece of auteurism. He never did it, so I figure he never found a story that needed it.
(*) When iTunes starting including TV shows I heard the episodes decribed as "one hour shows cut down to 42 minutes by removing the ads" - am I the only one who finds this backwards - US shows are 42 minutes with 18 minutes of adverts inserted.
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I remember JMS talking about the possibility of doing a show which happened in real time. He said it would be very hard to pull off convincingly and that he would only do it on B5 if there was a story that really should be told in that format - he wouldn't do it just to do a tricky piece of auteurism. He never did it, so I figure he never found a story that needed it.
(*) When iTunes starting including TV shows I heard the episodes decribed as "one hour shows cut down to 42 minutes by removing the ads" - am I the only one who finds this backwards - US shows are 42 minutes with 18 minutes of adverts inserted.