The two-hour prequel to 24's seventh season, in which Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) battles an international crisis in Africa while a new president enters the White House, has added Eric Lively (The L Word), Tony Todd (Chuck), and Gil Bellows (Ally McBeal) to the cast. Lively will play the president's son; Todd, an African dictator; and Bellows, a State Department officer. (The Hollywood Reporter)


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