New Jack City: 24 Comes to Manhattan!

Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is dragged back begrudgingly in the exciting two-day, four-hour premier of "Day 8," the new season of 24 that starts on Jan. 17th on FOX. And it's set in Manhattan! Jack is out of CTU and planning on traveling to LA with his daughter and his grandchild when an informant, bleeding, stumbles into his apartment and apprises him of a plot to assassinate a foreign leader (Slumdog Millionaire's Anil Kapoor) just as he is about to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty with the US President (the fabulous Cherry Jones) at the UN. So Jack is off and running, and before long shooting and dodging missiles. Freddie Prinze Jr. is a great fit as a CTU agent as is Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff as his data analysist girlfriend with a dark secret in her past. The first four hours are thrilling as usual and  will inevitably hold me hostage for another 20 hours of New Jack City.