24's Kiefer Sutherland has opened up about returning to his Jack Bauer role – but only if "the story is good". Which makes sense.

Talking on today's Lorraine (June 7), Sutherland said of his part in the US show: "I would've done that until I die.

"Except we started, Howard Gordon – who is the writer of the show for the last six years – at some point... we would start talking about the next season.

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He added: "Then it got to a point, where how many bad days can one guy have?"

"We decided to finish it at that point, but I've also learned never to say never on 24. We shot the last season here in London and I didn't expect to do that. I said we were never doing 24 again, I was wrong, so I learned to stay quiet about that."

On Lorraine Kelly's suggestion that another season could happen if the plot is good enough, Kiefer replied: "If the story is good. As long as the story is good."

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Meanwhile, 24 producers are now redeveloping the show as an American Crime Story-style anthology series, with the first new outing set to feature a female prosecutor as its lead.

And one big fan of the idea is none other than Kiefer himself, who told Digital Spy that he thinks moving away from the Bauer-verse is a "brilliant" idea.

"To take it out of the anti-terrorist format I think is really smart," he said.

"In this specific instance, they're talking about of a female attorney who has 24 hours to bring the stay of execution to her client or he dies – that's a really fascinating idea."

24 is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video.

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