FORMER 24 CHARACTER RETURNING

When following movie and TV news on a regular basis, every once in a while I'll fall upon a spoiler for one of my favourite shows and I just deal with it.

While this doesn't reveal any plot details it's still a bit of a spoiler. So If you don't wish to know this than feel free to not read it as it relates to the upcoming eighth season of 24 which will have a two-night two hour season premiere starting on January 17th.

President Charles Logan, is coming back.

Gregory Itzin, nominated for an Emmy for his role on the Fox real-time drama, has signed for a multiepisode arc. The disgraced former president last was seen during Season 6 flatlining en route to a hospital after being stabbed by his wife, Martha Logan (Jean Smart).

At the opening of Season 7, FBI agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) told Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) that Logan was alive and under house arrest, but he never was heard from again.

In the upcoming season, sitting President Taylor (Cherry Jones) reluctantly enlists Logan to assist with an escalating international diplomatic crisis.

The eighth season is set in New York, and features a retired Bauer unwillingly drawn back into the action after learning of a plot to assassinate Middle East peacekeeper Omar Hassan (Slumdog Millionaire's Anil Kapoor).

Other new cast members include CTU rookies Katee Sackhoff, Mykelti Williamson and Freddie Prinze Jr., who join Wersching and veteran Mary Lynn Rajskub.