Will Jack Bauer Get Any Screen Time?

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Ricky is coming to "24." According to Fox, Rick "You'll Always Be Ricky to The Slug" Schroder will play "forceful" CTU operative Mike Doyle alongside Jack Bauer. Hmmmm. Don't you think they kinda look alike? Wonder if Jack gets killed off during his suicide mission that means Mike takes over?

And just how many guest stars are popping up next season? So far we have newcomers Chad Lowe, Powers Boothe, Peter MacNicol, Regina King, James Cromwell, Kal Penn and returnees Jean Smart, Gregory Itzin, Eric Balfour, Carlo Rota, D.B. Woodside, Jayne Atkinson, Roger Cross, James Morrison and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Knowing "24" though, they all could get killed by a nuclear bomb in the first five minutes of "Day Six."

The next season doesn't premiere until Jan. 14. Sigh.