'24' return gets plum post-Super Bowl slot

Fox will give 24: Legacy, its reboot of the storied action-thriller franchise, a big kickoff with a premiere set to follow the 51st Super Bowl on Feb. 5.

The network announced the launch plans Monday along with its fall schedule, and is repeating a common strategy that helped fuel last winter's The X-Files return following the NFC Championship Game.  The 12-episode series, roughly following a real-time format, will then move to Mondays at 8 ET/PT the following night. This 24 marks the first without star Kiefer Sutherland, who remains an executive producer but will instead star as an unlikely president in ABC's new Designated Survivor.

Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton) will fill the top role as a soldier returning from foreign soil with trouble following him home. Miranda Otto (Homeland) plays a former CTU chief who helps out, and Jimmy Smits also stars as her husband, a U.S. senator..

While the cast is new, the show's original producer/writer team of Howard Gordon, Evan Katz and Manny Coto will be back.