New 24 spoiler. read ahead at own risk!
Keifer is on the cover of TV guide.......I quote this from august TV guide week 14-20 on sale now.
"Day 6" opens two months "into" his incarceration." -Keifer Sutherland.
So according to this, Jack is still in prison when season 6 begins!
Also: Here are the spoiler excerpts from the inset article that's headed, "Next for 24: Emmys, Then - Yeehaw! - More Mayhem
............ Now the big question is whether Day 6 can top it, though Cassar insists. "It's not a question at all. The answer is yes." While other seasons gradually bring the terror to light, the new season (which kicks off in January) begins 'in the midst of America being terrorized,' Cassar says, likening the explosive opening to the early hours after 9-11. "Something horrible has already happened, so we start in a mood of national paranoia and fear and go from there," he says.
Jack has been in Chinese custody for two months and has been tortured physically and mentally. "He's not the same Jack we've seen before," Cassar says. "He's beaten down, a weakened shell." A la Jack's Season 3 return from drug abuse, Season 6 will track Jack's comeback.
Meanwhile, a Guantanamo-like internment camp raises issues about "how far our country will go to stop terror" says Cassar, who hopes this years Emmys will help pay him back a debt to 24's star.
"When Kiefer won his SAG award, he said, ' This one's for you, Jon,' and gave it to me," he says. " I told Kiefer, 'if I win an Emmy, that SAG trophy's going right back on your shelf."