Since Fox decided to cancel Touch, Kiefer Sutherland has some free time on his hands…and his new day job just might be a 24 revival.

I’ll pause for a moment for your brain to explode.

If the series does make it back to the small screen, sources say it may just be for 12 episodes. Showrunner Howard Gordon (who now serves as an Executive Producer on Homeland) came up with the idea for the return, which will most likely play out like a final season. The film version of the show is most likely dead in the water.

Movie…TV show…I personally don’t care how 24 returns, I just want to see Jack Bauer one last time. Season 8, though very solid and a return to form, just didn’t end the series appropriately. We can’t have Jack just disappear into the night again! We need more finality than that and hopefully this mini-season can satisfy the Bauer craving in us all. (E! Online)