Kiefer Sutherland will be back to play Jack Bauer for an eighth season of the hit counterterrorism drama “24,“ but the show’s longevity will depend on its writers, the actor said Tuesday.

This old dog taught Westminster a new trick.

Basic cable TV looked more like a pop-culture bargain Thursday as AMC’s “Mad Men” and FX’s “Damages” snared historic best-series Emmy nominations, while stars from cable’s less glamorous channels also made a splash in major acting categories.

Kathy Hilton will play herself on the May 13 episode of the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless.” She finds a magazine cover model for her friend Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman), but takes over the photo shoot, infuriating magazine staffers, in the episode taped Wednesday.