DHAKA: Actor Stephen Fry will play the British prime minister in hit drama ‘24: Live Another Day’, as Kiefer Sutherland returns to the role of Jack Bauer.

Fry confirmed the news on Twitter, posting a link to a story on Deadline Hollywood and writing, ‘Well, this particular cat is out of the bag’, reports the BBC.

The actor’s recurring role, prime minister Trevor Davies, is described as a ‘strong and charismatic leader’.

Set four years after the last series, Bauer returns as a fugitive in London.

The counter-terrorist expert is on the run from the CIA in the capital and Sutherland has recently been photographed filming in London’s Aldgate.

The Fox series is due to premiere on US TV with a two-hour special on 5 May and will be broadcast on Sky 1 in the UK soon after.

The action in this shorter, 12-episode series of 24 will still take place over the course of a single day, but it will leap around in time instead of following 24’s usual, hour-by-hour structure.

BDST: 1704 HRS, JAN 27, 2014