24

"24", the American thriller with Kiefer Sutherland is, I think, far better than anything on British TV. Even the split screen effects work - the same type of effects attempted on "Trial and Retribution", for example, do not work, except to distract attention from the story, because they are three or four scenes from the same scene, taken from different perspectives. On "24" the four scenes are of different parts of the action at that moment in time.
The trouble with "24" is that it is too popular, especially with the American soldiers in Iraq: the military leaders back home in America fear that the sometimes horrific methods of obtaining information from suspects in the TV series may be used in actual combat in Iraq.
So the question arises: do you censor a programme like this because it might have a drastic influence on real people? It's the same old question that crops up with censorship all the time. I don't have an answer.
So, until they ban it, I shall be still watching "24".
But if they do I don't think I will object.