Okay, Rupert, we're getting the hint

Guess what the new season of 24 is going to feature?

Female President Next for Fox's '24'

Jones' term will coincide with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, but Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said fiction and real-world politics will not intersect.

Mmright. It's the news that intersects. And news...is politics.

For six seasons -- well, five; the first season, being experimental, was relatively free of it -- people have called 24 on its parallels to current events and its fear-inducing political slant.

Evil Middle Easterners. Evil Mexicans. Drugs. Nukes. Bioweapons. Conflict with Russia. Conflict with China. Capture and torture. Oh, yes, and, last season, a bad guy named Fayed, just in time for the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana's death.

And now a female president.

Which will our Hillary-surrogate be: the villain or the potential disaster?

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