Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor in Fox drama's seventh season of "24." (File Photo)

    BEIJING, July 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Fox drama's seventh season of "24," a show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer, is set to have a female president, media reported Monday.

    Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Jones will play President Allison Taylor in the upcoming season.

    Jones' term will coincide with the peak in the Democratic Party's presidential race that might see Hillary Clinton as the first woman nominated by a major political party for the top political office.

    But Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said fiction and real-world politics will not intersect.

    "It's a dramatic decision. ... The president is a very important piece of '24," Liguori said. "We've had a broad array of presidents on the show; why not a female president?"

    The series has been an Oval Office groundbreaker before, with Dennis Haysbert playing President Palmer, the nation's first black president.

    "24" has been popular among Washington's elite. At TV Land's upfront presentation in May, Clinton's husband, former president Bill Clinton, who has been involved in his wife's presidential campaign, listed "24" among his favorite shows "even though an uber-right-wing guy writes it." He was referring to "24" co-creator Joel Surnow, an outspoken Republican.

    (Agencies)

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