It's official. After speculation and rumors, FOX has announced today that they will be picking up Touch, a new drama from Kiefer Sutherland for mid-season. They are granting the series thirteen episodes to start and surely have high hopes from the former 24 star.
Touch comes from the creator of Heroes, Tim Kring, and is centered on a father, Martin Bohm (Sutherland), who works with his autistic, mute son Jake (David Mazouz) to predict events before they happen. He starts out haunted by his inability to connect with his kid, and after multiple failed attempts at keeping him in school, he gets a visit from a social worker (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), who evaluates Jake's well-being and finds his gift of "staggering genius." Jake is communicating, just in his own unique way: with numbers. The journey is then for these two to learn to communicate with each other, though they see the world extremely differently, as well as the dissect the pattern and find out who the events Jake is predicting will happen to and if they can help. Danny Glover also stars as a professor who works with gifted children and comes across this phenomenal boy.
It's not quite bomb diffusions and kidnappings, but you'd watch that anyway, right?
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