One month away from the season premier of 24, here are the latest updates . . .

• Ricky Schroder's character will be the new field agent in charge at CTU. My sources say that he will enter conference rooms on a small train.


• Characters from past seasons will return. Milo (sure, you remember Milo . . . season 1? I think he distrusted Jamie from the start) is confirmed and fat Dave Attell will return as Chloe's ex-husband. No word yet on the cougar from season 2.


• Key characters will die. Assuming that Bill Buchanan is not a mole, the word here is that he's one of them.


• Jack Bauer's father will make an appearance.

Also, if you haven't already seen it, there's a prequel to season 6 floating around in the tubes of the interweb-a-spheres.