Kiefer Sutherland Returns to TV with new FOX Series TOUCH (Spring 2012)

‘TOUCH’ AND GO: KIEFER SUTHERLAND’S RETURN TO TV

For eight seasons, Kiefer Sutherland was one of Fox’s most famous faces, starring as counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer on the groundbreaking Fox series “24.” After taking a year off, Sutherland’s ready to return to television — and to Fox — in the drama series “Touch.” On the new show, he’ll play a single father whose son can only communicate through mathematics and can’t be “touched.” Sutherland says he wasn’t looking specifically to return to television, but after reading the script for “Touch” and seeing so much growth potential for its characters, he couldn’t resist the opportunity to star in the series. (Click on the audio player to hear Kiefer Sutherland) 
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Fox's Kevin Reilly Calls Kiefer Sutherland TOUCH Pilot Extraordinary

Fox's Kevin Reilly Calls Kiefer Sutherland TOUCH Pilot Extraordinary

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 12:57pm PDT

Not that there was ever any doubt that Tim Kring's Fox pilot TOUCH starring Kiefer Sutherland would get on the air, but the network wanted to reserve final judgement until after it sees the finished pilot. Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly told reporters at TCA today that he saw the pilot last night and it was "extraordinary", firmly sealing the project's midseason series pickup. "It's a new character but it does have some doze of Jack Bauer in it," Reilly said about Sutherland's new role. TOUCH will be joining Fox's schedule this season.

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TOUCH Starring Kiefer Sutherland Casts Young Lead Co-Star

Fox's 'Touch' Casts Young Lead to Co-Star with Kiefer Sutherland

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 6:04pm PDT

EXCLUSIVE: Child actor David Mazouz (Lifetime's Amish Grace) has landed the younger lead opposite Kiefer Sutherland in the Fox drama pilot Touch. The project, which is considered  a lock for a midseason series order, centers on Martin (Sutherland) who discovers that his genius son Jake (Mazouz) is communicating with him through a complex series of numbers and may even be able to predict events before they happen. Jake rarely shows emotion, refuses to be touched, and instead busies himself with cast-off cell phones, able to see the world with something akin to the eye of God, where every action, thought, breath is interconnected. Tim Kring wrote the script and is exec producing with Katherine Pope and Peter Chernin  for 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment.

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Kiefer Sutherland is in TOUCH with a New Fox Series

Kiefer Sutherland is in TOUCH with a New Fox Series

KieferSutherland is back at Fox with the midseason series Touch, which is created by Heroes head Tim Kring. Touch focuses on Martin Bohm, a man who discovers his 11-year-old son with special needs has a unique ability to find connections and patterns in the world.

“What made me the most interested inTouch is the script,” says Sutherland, whose Broadway run on That Championship Season comes to a close on May 29th.  

“It’s the material.  I certainly know what it’s like to do a series for a long period of time.  We did 24 for eight years, so it is not a light commitment.  It is not something you enter into without a lot of thought.  This script is just beautiful and it has such great opportunity to grow.  I love the idea of telling a story each week that has a beginning, middle and an end.  And then the character. I have great respect for Martin and his desire to have as full a relationship with his son as he possibly can.  That’s a struggle, and as an actor, that struggle is going to be something wonderful to play.”

Click on the media bar and listen to Sutherland elaborate on the father-son relationship on Touch, and the actor explains the similarities between the new series and 24. 

Sutherland will also be seen later this year with Kirsten Dunst in the Lars Von Trier filmMelancholia.

Source: HollywoodOutbreak

Fox Picks Up Touch with Kiefer Sutherland

Fox exec: 'Touch is really compelling'

Monday, May 16 2011, 11:35am EDT

By Catriona Wightman, TV Reporter

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Fox's entertainment president Kevin Reilly has described upcoming drama Touch as "compelling".

The network confirmed earlier today that it has picked up the show, which stars Kiefer Sutherland. 

However, a pilot has not yet been shot as Sutherland is working on a Broadway play.

"We're going to schedule this show opportunistically," Reilly told reporters. 

"Touch was a really extraordinary script, a compelling drama, that stars Kiefer Sutherland as a father whose world changes when he discovers that his child with special needs has the ability to see patterns and connections that no-one else can."

Reilly explained that the pilot will be shot in June and added: "The script blew us away, getting Kiefer back to the network [after 24] was something... we think this could be really special."


Source: Digital Spy

TOUCH SYNOPSIS FROM FOX


TOUCH
From writer/creator Tim Kring (“Heroes,” “Crossing Jordan”) and executive producers Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope  comes TOUCH, a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact. Through masterful storytelling, the series follows a group of seemingly unrelated characters – beginning with a former firefighter tormented by his inability to save a dying woman, an Iraqi teenager who will go to great risks to help his family, a gifted singer whose actions at a karaoke bar save lives thousands of miles away and a British businessman desperately trying to retrieve a key piece of information from his lost mobile phone – who affect each other in ways seen and unseen. At the center is MARTIN BOHM (Kiefer Sutherland, “24”), a widower and single father, haunted by an inability to connect to his mute, severely autistic 10-year-old son, JAKE. Caring, intelligent and thoughtful, Martin has tried everything to reach his son who shows little emotion and never allows himself to be touched by anyone, including Martin. Jake busies himself with cast-off cell phones, disassembling them and manipulating the parts, allowing him to see the world in his own special way. After multiple failed attempts at keeping Jake in school, Martin is visited by social worker CLEA HOPKINS, who insists on doing an evaluation of the Bohms’ living situation. Although new at her job, Clea sees a man whose life has become dominated by a child he can no longer control. She believes his attempts to communicate with Jake are just wish fulfillment, and determines that it’s time for the state to intervene. But everything changes when Martin discovers that Jake possesses a gift of staggering genius – the ability to see things that no one else can, the patterns that connect everything. Jake is indeed communicating after all. But it’s not with words, it’s with numbers. And now he needs Martin to decipher their meaning and connect these numbers to the cast of seemingly unrelated characters whose lives they affect. Along the way, Martin will be guided by BORIS PODOLSKY, a discredited aging professor who offers Martin a compelling but unorthodox theory about Jake and his rare ability. Whether it be chance, coincidence, timing, synergy or fate, there are events that touch us all, as part of an interconnected, dazzlingly precise universe.


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Kiefer Sutherland The 24 Movie News

Fox TV Executive Confirms The 24 Movie Is Still Alive, But With No Finished Script

2011-05-16 07:46:47 Katey Rich

The rumor mill about the possible movie has expanded to include the FOX network-- yes, the network that cancelled the show and started this whole process. On a conference call today to discuss the network's fall primetime programming, a reporter threw out a curveball question to Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Rice, asking him about Kiefer Sutherland's constant promises that a 24 movie really will happen. Given that he doesn't work for 20th Century Fox, the movie studio that would actually make the film, Rice couldn't say anything definitive, but he definitely didn't douse the flames either. Here's what he had to say:


"I don't work at the movie company, but my intelligence around the lot is everybody would very much like to make a movie ,and I believe that they're working on the script. When they say 'We don't have a script,' they don't have a completed script that they're about to go shoot. There's a great desire to see Jack Bauer on the big screen."


So yes, nothing that isn't the same kind of vague promise we've been hearing for years now, but given Rice's key position in programming the entire Fox network, you'd better believe he at least has an ear to the ground to find out if one of the network's most successful shows ever will have new life at the movies. Don't go marking your calendar for when you'll be able to see the movie-- having no script isn't exactly the strongest sign-- but don't give up on it either.


Source: Cinemablend

More Info on Kiefer Sutherland's Role in New FOX Pilot TOUCH

More Info On Kiefer Sutherland's Role in New FOX Pilot TOUCH

TOUCH (FOX) - Kiefer Sutherland has officially boarded the drama pilot, which will now film in late May or early June for midseason consideration by the network. He'll play Martin Bohm in the project - an unassuming baggage handler at JFK who discovers that his autistic, mute son can predict events before they happen - as well as executive produce. The delayed production start is due to Sutherland's commitment to Jason Miller's revival of "That Championship Season" on Broadway, which opened last week. Charles McDougall is in talks to direct the 20th Century Fox Television-based hour, which comes from creator Tim Kring.

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Video of Kiefer Sutherland Speaking in Japan at 24 DVD Release Event

Video of Kiefer Sutherland Speaking in Tokyo Japan

At 24 DVD Release Event. PART ONE

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Video of Kiefer Sutherland Speaking in Tokyo Japan

At 24 DVD Release Event. PART TWO

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