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Jack Is Back...On Sunday

24 returns to FOX Sunday, November 23, and on DVD Tuesday, November 25.

When 24 first came on, I was hooked right away.  I loved the idea of the events of the show happening in 'real time.'  Especially during the commercial breaks.  I'll admit things did seem a little far fetched during some of the seasons but at least there's usually a gap in time between them.  So it's not like Jack is having these crazy 24 hour periods so closely together.  It's been a while since 24 has been on.  When we last saw Jack, he was "literally standing on the precipice of a mountain cliff grappling with the reality that for all his heroics, he'd once more lost the woman he loved."

It'll be four years later when we catch up with Jack.  The cast and crew got together for the world premiere.
Series star and Emmy® Award winner Kiefer Sutherland (“Jack Bauer”) and cast members Robert Carlyle (“Carl Benton”), Jon Voight (“Jonas Hodges”), Cherry Jones (“Allison Taylor”), Tony Todd (“Colonel Juma”), Hakeem Kae-Kazim (“Colonel Dubaku”) and Gil Bellows (“Frank Trammel”); plus series director Jon Cassar and executive producer Howard Gordon joined together for the world premiere for 24: REDEMPTION.  The two-hour television event bridges the gap between seasons six and seven of the series and is the first new material from the “24” producers in nearly two years.

Filmed on location in South Africa and Los Angeles, the prequel catches up with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) on the African continent where he has sought solace in missionary work. He soon finds himself in the midst of a bloody uprising in the small fictitious African nation of Sangala where a ruthless dictator is drafting innocent children as soldiers in his army. As the vicious Colonel Dubaku descends on an orphanage in search of recruits, Jack enters into a one-man crusade at the behest of a friend to rescue the children and get them to safety.

24: REDEMPTION airs Sunday, Nov.  23 (8:00-10:00PM ET/PT) on FOX and will be released on DVD the following Tuesday, Nov. 25 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment as a special “Extended Cut” featuring over 10 minutes of all-new footage.