Kiefer Sutherland is desperate to debut his hit show 24 on the big screen – but only after the TV series is cancelled.

The Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning show has enjoyed mega success with American audiences since its debut in 2001, and though Sutherland is convinced his character is destined for a movie debut, he admits he’s worried the project would upset the over-worked series’ writers.

He says, “We’re going to eventually (make a 24 movie) one day – if (fans) are still interested by then. It’s so hard for the writers to just even get through the season. They’re very good, but it’s just the equivalent of making 12 films a year and then they have to come up with a whole new idea in the break for the next year. So we all agreed to preserve the series, just to focus on that – and then, when the series is done, we would embark on the film.”

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Kiefer Sutherland went without soap during his jail stint last Christmas – after dropping the bar in the communal showers.

The 24 star was sentenced to 48 days in jail after he was caught driving under the influence in Los Angeles last September.

He subsequently spent his 41st birthday, Christmas and New Year’s Eve behind bars.

Sutherland has now broken his silence about his time behind bars, joking, “I dropped the soap!”

He continues: “I actually dropped the soap. I remember looking down at it and then I looked around and thought: ‘Soap is over-rated… I’m done with this shower!’”

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24 star Kiefer Sutherland is thankful he kept his job after spending Christmas in jail for drunk driving.

The actor was sentenced to 48 days in jail after he was caught driving under the influence in Los Angeles last September.

He subsequently spent his 41st birthday, Christmas and New Year’s Eve behind bars.

Now free and back on the set of hit show 24, Sutherland is counting his blessings – because his stupidity could have cost him his job.

He says, “I made a really dumb mistake, and to be able to get back to work, which is something I feel comfortable doing and is a safe place for me, I was grateful to have that opportunity. I have friends who have made similar mistakes who have not been that lucky.”

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Kiefer Sutherland has hit out at claims he is engaged to his journalist girlfriend Siobhan Bonnouvrier.

The pair was spotted together for the first time in New York in April, and speculation they could be heading down the aisle intensified the following month when his divorce from ex-wife Elizabeth was finalized.

But the 41-year-old actor’s representative insists there are no plans for nuptials with his new belle, the 36-year-old style director of Allure magazine.

The rep says Sutherland is “not engaged to his current girlfriend Siobhan Bonnouvrier”.

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Some things in Kiefer Sutherland’s life don’t take 24 hours.

The actor is finally divorced from Elizabeth Sutherland – four years after filing papers and nine years after they separated.

A Superior Court judge signed off on the divorce Friday, and the 24 star’s ex will drop the “Sutherland” from her name, according to court papers.

Sutherland, 41, filed for divorce from his wife of nearly eight years way back in 2004, citing irreconcilable differences.

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Fans of the Fox drama “24″ will have to wait until next January to see Jack Bauer again, this television season’s most prominent casualty of the Hollywood writers strike. The network has committed to air a full season on consecutive weeks, and had been planning to start last month.

But if it had started airing new episodes soon, the season finale would not have taken place until the summer, when TV networks rarely show their high-profile programs.

Even though eight episodes for this season had already been filmed before the beginning of the writers strike, producers would have had to ramp up production soon to complete the season.

A January 2009 start seemed the best way to comply with viewers’ wishes that a season’s episodes run without interruption to conclusion, Fox said on Thursday.

The company that produces the series, 20th Century Fox Television, also confirmed that creator Joel Surnow was leaving as one of the executive producers. Fox is owned by News Corp.

Surnow told Daily Variety that he had “decided it was time to see if there were other opportunities I wanted to pursue.”

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