As rumored, when "24" returns next season, the country will be led by a female President. Cherry Jones will play the President pulling Jack Bauer's strings. Are the producers getting a "Hillary Clinton" character to coincide with Hillary's run for the White house?Star Pulse:
The United States will have a female president next year - on the Fox TV series ''24.''
Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor when the show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) returns in January for its seventh season, the network announced Sunday.
Jones' term will coincide with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, but Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said fiction and real-world politics will not intersect.
''It's a dramatic decision. ... The president is a very important piece of '24,'' Liguori told The Associated Press. ''We've had a broad array of presidents on the show; why not a female president?''
