A UNION jack flag, a black cab, The Gherkin. A red bus, phone box and post box.

Not to mention utter chaos and a man emerging from a burning vehicle wielding a weapon.

They could hardly have made it any more obvious.

London is the location for Live Another Day, the follow-up to the hit TV action series 24, which was revealed in a sneak peek trailer during the Super Bowl coverage on Sunday night.

They’ve even signed up Stephen Fry as the fictional British Prime Minister Trevor Davies, which just has to be a brilliant move.

Britain has not been so stereotyped since the episode in Friends when Ross and Emily got married in the Big Smoke.

So much so, I fully expect Fergie to turn up to have her picture taken with Kiefer Sutherland.

Frankly though I’m beyond caring that American directors are incapable of depicting our little Island in any other way.

This means that Jack is back – and the very notion fills me with joy.

He emerges from the Square Mile with an old friend in tow.

Bauer is in the capital four years after 24's series finale to deal with a terrorist attack – with his trusty sidekick, the brilliantly grumpy, Chloe O’Brian.

The preposterously eventful days of 24, in which no one ever considers sleeping or taking a toilet break, play out in real time over 24 hour-long episodes and have changed the face of television.

I for one can’t wait to see which outlandish terrorist plot they have hatched when 24 returns this summer.

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