I must confess: I am hopelessly, and forever, addicted to "24." I only started watching it towards the end of season 5, but never missed a single episode of season 6. For Christmas, my wife bought me the DVD's of Seaons 4 and 5, and after watching all of them, I'm now back-tracking, by watching seaons 1-3. Currently, I've got 8 more episodes of season 2 left, before moving onto season 3.

Never in my life have I watched so much television! We start to watch "24" at, say, 4:00 in the afternoon, and wind up watching it until past our normal bedtimes! We've actually watched it once or twice for a full eight hours!

"24" is one of the best written, acted, directed and photographed programs ever. Each and every episode is a nail-biting, white-knuckle ride that has you at the edge of your seat throughout, and each episode concludes with a cliff-hanger that somehow actually manages to top all the previous cliff-hanger endings! All of that's quite an accomplishment, that I've never seen any other program manage to duplicate, or even come close to.

Everything about the show is top notch: known actors (William Devane, Kevin Dillon, Gail O'Grady, Dennis Haysbert, Dennis Hoffman, Zeljko Ivanek, Kim Raver, Lou Diamond Phillips) appear frequently and perform all their roles most admirably, and there's no denying the outstanding efforts of the show's regulars, as well as its star, Keifer Sutherland.

If any of you reading this have never seen "24," then rush out to Blockbuster, or log onto netflix and rent all of Season One. Just be prepared to lose a lot of sleep, and eat a lot less!