24: Kim Raver & Willian Devane Join Cast

The countdown to 24‘s Jack-Audrey reunion has officially begun.

Following up on TVLine’s exclusive report last month, Kim Raver has formally closed a deal to reprise her role as Kiefer Sutherland’s former onscreen love in 24: Live Another Day – and she’s not the only franchise vet returning for Fox’s 12-episode revival.

TVLine has confirmed that William Devane, who played Audrey’s father James Heller, has also inked a deal to appear in the London-basedevent series.

Raver joined 24 in Season 4 and remained through Season 6. When last seen, in the S6 finale, Audrey was in something of a vegetative state after being tortured and injected with mind-altering drugs by her Chinese captors — a development that led Devane’s Heller to forbid Jack from ever seeing his daughter again.

Raver and Devane are the third and fourth 24 vets joining the revival, following Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub.

24: LAD, slated to launch in the spring, will essentially be 24 “compressed over 12 weeks,” Fox president Kevin Reilly previously explained. “It will go chronologically over the day, but it will skip hours.”

Source: TVLine

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Mary Lynn Rajskub Returns As Cloe O'Brian In 24

We all know Jack Bauer is coming back to Fox for another day of tension and thrills in "24: Live Another Day," but the network announced Thursday another familiar face: Mary Lynn Rajskub.

Rajskub, who played CTU analyst Chloe O'Brian, was one of the few people close to Bauer to survive multiple seasons and through the end of the series. In fact, Rajskub was in more episodes than anyone except series star Kiefer Sutherland. Now she's back for the miniseries, which is expected to compress the traditional events of a "24"-style day into 12 episodes.

Fox made the announcement at the network's TCA presentation on Thursday. The miniseries is being spearheaded by Howard Gordon, who was showrunner for the series through its final seasons and is now an executive producer of "Homeland."

In a statement, Rajskub said, "I am thrilled to be working with Howard and the writers again -- and, of course, Kiefer! There’s a lot more room to grow in my character... I'm going to start sharpening my computer skills now!"

The writers are currently working on scripts for the miniseries, which is expected to debut on Fox in early 2014.

Source: LATimes

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