Jack Bauer is a busy man.

In between killing almost every bad person in the world and saying "dammit" a lot on 24 (particularly during those stressful moments where his face looks like a bulldog chewing on a barbed-ware fence) he certainly wouldn't have time to dilly-dally about on popular social website MySpace.

Besides – Jack wouldn't be friends with that shifty 'Tom' bloke anyway. He'd probably just drag him into an interrogation room, shoot him in both kneecaps and demand to know whereabouts in the 'extended network' the nuclear bomb is hidden.

All this hypothesising is irrelevant, however, to the grand lords of MySpace – soon to be taking over the world Mekon-style with a dastardly new scheme to offer downloadable TV programmes for $1.99 per shiny new episode. 24 will apparently mark their first excursion into this field, with 24 seasons 1-5 in their entirety just waiting to be transmitted to your friendly computer screen.

The big question remains – will UK cyber-viewers be able to take advantage of this service? Or will us unfortunate Brits receive the same shoddy treatment that we get from iTunes… watching in dismay as American users are able to download episodes of Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives and Prison Break while we get stuck with billion-year-old Pixar short films and crushingly mediocre music videos (like You're Beautiful by James Blunt or I Am A Triple-Chinned Public Schoolboy Twat by Keane)?

Whatever. However MySpace decide to use this power, chances are that they're never ever going to come up with another section of their site as cool as this.

Probably. 

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MySpace Reportedly Will Sell '24' Episodes – Hollywood Reporter

[story by C J Davies]