Karen Hayes won’t be in 24 Season 7

Jayne Atkinson as Karen Hayes in a 24 Season 6 promotional photo
Jayne Atkinson as Karen Hayes in a 24 Season 6 promotional photo

With Kiefer Sutherland and company running around FOX’s TCA events yesterday, many of our burning queries regarding the Monday night drama were posed and answered. Among them? Karen Hayes (Jayne Atkinson) is still happily married to Bill Buchanan, however we won’t see her in the flesh this season because Atkinson’s busy on Broadway…

If Tony Almeida is alive, could Michelle Dessler (Reiko Aylesworth) reappear too? Nope. Show runner Howard Gordon says she’s “dead, dead, dead.” They’re done dipping into that “resurrection pool”…

As of now, we will not see Audrey Raines (Kim Raver) this season, but with Lipstick Jungle’s cancelation making Raver available, producers are hoping to write her into next year’s batch of eps, as she and Kiefer have chemistry in spades…

And speaking of chemistry, K. Sutherland is hot for his new FBI partner Renee Walker (Annie Wersching). Admitting that a palpable “tension,” born out of mutual respect, develops between them as the season progresses, Kiefer said that Renee can handle herself as well as Jack can and if there’s anything that turns Jack on, it’s that. On a personal note, when K.S. saw Wersching film her first few fight scenes, he said that he was turned on too…

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