Chancer

The late-night video break for the last little while has featured a 1990 British show, Chancer. Clive Owen stars in a strange, thirteen-episode first series (the BBC ran two, though the second was shorter) that zigs and zags like an old-fashioned novel of character. The less I tell you about it, the better it will be, because many of the episodes feature important revelations, so I'll leave it at this: bear with the slowness of the first few episodes, and the show will reward your time. Oh, yeah: Clive Owen is almost as charming as his character is supposed to be.

Speaking of characters, I've had a few readers ask if I would be bringing back in Slanted Jack some of the characters (other than Jon and Lobo, of course) from One Jump Ahead. In a word, no. The second book features an all new cast. So does Overthrowing Heaven.

That will change one day, but not yet.