http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/11298675/kiefer-sutherland-interview.html

In an interview with the UK’s Telegraph, Sutherland was asked if he had moved on from the Jack Bauer role: “Me, I don’t see going back to it,” he says. "We had set out to do 12 episodes to end the show and deal with some of the past history of the show. It was also an irresistible opportunity to go shoot in England. So for all of those reasons it made sense to do that last season.”
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