The 11 conference commissioners in the Bowl Championship Series and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick last month agreed to explore the possibility of a four-team playoff, which would be a first for major-college football.

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Characters such as Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and Jack Bauer on Fox's prime-time series 24 are engraved with the same irreverence, patriotism and easiness with violence that 007 has portrayed throughout his 53 years in the service.

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They will compete with Friday Night Dinner and Sky series Spy for best new comedy, while Jack Whitehall and Hugh Bonneville are both up for best TV comedy actor for their roles in the shows.

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The comic-book series "From Hell, " in which Moore uses the Jack the Ripper killings as a precursor to 20th-century violence, runs to about 500 pages, including 40-plus pages of footnotes.

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Mr. Morgan, who died Wednesday at age 96, was a seasoned supporting actor who appeared in dozens of movies and was a regular in several TV series, including three seasons as Bill Gannon, sidekick to Jack Webb's Sgt.

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The latest film based on a novel by Tom Clancy , The Sum of All Fears from Viacom 's (nyse: VIA - news - people) Paramount Pictures, stars Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan, but it may prove risky with established fans of the series.

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Meanwhile, Walt Disney's ESPN had been airing dull, static broadcasts of the World Series of Poker, the storied tournament started by Las Vegas casino owner Jack Binion in 1970.

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Series creator and writer Richard Warlow ("Mistresses") wanted to tap into how the Jack the Ripper murders still resonate today.

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The score for Old Jack's Boat has been recorded by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, a first ever for a CBeebies series.

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