Tony Award-winning actress Cherry Joneswill 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 showabout the exploits of counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer, is set to have a femalepresident, media reported Monday.

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

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

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

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

The series has been an Oval Office groundbreakerbefore, with Dennis Haysbert playing President Palmer, the nation's first blackpresident.

"24" has been popular among Washington's elite. At TVLand's upfront presentation in May, Clinton's husband, former president BillClinton, 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 wasreferring to "24" co-creator Joel Surnow, an outspoken Republican.

(Agencies)

A poster of "24." Fox drama's seventhseason of "24," a show about the exploits of counterterrorism agent JackBauer, is set to have a female president. (File Photo)