Blogging the TCA Blogs #9 - More on “24″

EW.com on the potential return of a beloved/hated character:

Kim Bauer may be coming back! 24 exec producer/director Jon Cassar just revealed to me exclusively that there have been preliminary discussions about bringing back Jack’s much-maligned daughter this season. “We have talked about it,” he confirms. “But anytime we talk about Kim, we immediately say, ‘Let’s not do anything with her that will result in the audience hating her.’”

USA Today on Exile:

The movie takes place on Inauguration Day. Just as Powers Boothe’s Noah Daniels is handing the presidential reins to Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones), a military coup begins in a fictional African country.

This year’s baddie is played by Jon Voight, who appears in the movie and then resurfaces midway through the regular season.

MeeVee gets the inner struggle description from the man himself:

“It was fantastic,” said Sutherland. “When he left at the end of Season Six, he was so disillusioned by not only with what he’d done with his life but with the circumstances he confronted here in America, that there was something wonderful with the beginning of show in Africa, that he had actually found a kind of peace and a calm there with (guest star Robert Carlyle) as an old friend of his from special forces 15 years ago.

“Bobby’s character had started a school that was trying to provide a safe haven and rehabilitate the children of the African wars, children that had been involved in the fighting, many of those children ranging in age from 8 to 13. It was the first time you saw (Jack) in a place where he felt like he was giving back for a lot of things where he felt like he had been a part of the problem. This was an opportunity for him to kind of clean himself. Not only on a physical level, but on an emotional level, it was a nice fresh start for him.”