FOX plant eine neue Dramaserie mit 24’s Kiefer Sutherland, die bereits im kommenden Frühjahr in den USA an den Start gehen soll, was mitunter heißt, daß wir sicherlich noch eine Weile auf den 24-Movie warten müssen. Titel des neuen Projektes: TOUCH, deren Storyline leicht an Bruce Willis’ Das Mercury Puzzle erinnert. Aber nur ganz leicht.

Ein allerinerziehender Papi (Kiefer Sutherland) ist mit der Erziehung seines elfjährigen autistischen Sohnes vollkommen überfordert. Zu allem Überfluß fängt der Knirps auch noch damit, in wilden Zahlensalaten zu kommunizieren (wobei wir wieder bei Bruce Willis’ Mercury Puzzle wären). Aber keiner hat auch nur die leiseste Ahnung wie Sie zu deuten sind und welche Auswirkungen sie auf wessen Leben haben. Der einzige, der darauf vielleicht eine Antwort hat, ist ein Professor, in dessen Rolle Lethal Weapon Haudegen Danny Glover schlüpfen wird.

Der Pilot ist bereits im Kasten und FOX Präsident Kevin Reilly spukte bereits große Töne über “Touch”: “Extraordinary. It’s a new character but it does have some doze of Jack Bauer in it.”

In den nächsten Wochen dürfte dann der eine oder andere erste Teaser Trailer ins Netz kommen. Ich bin gespannt, wobei ich Angst davor habe, daß zuviel von Kiefer’s Mirror drin steckt, und zu wenig Jack Bauer-Power. Nachfolgend noch die ersten (Set) Photos; plus die offizielle PM von FOX.

At the center of TOUCH is MARTIN BOHM (Sutherland), a widower and single father, haunted by an inability to connect to his mute 11-year-old son, JAKE (David Mazouz). After multiple failed attempts at keeping Jake in school, Martin is visited by CLEA HOPKINS (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a social worker sent to evaluate Jake’s well-being. Everything changes when Martin discovers that Jake possesses the gift of staggering genius – the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events. Jake is indeed communicating. But it’s not with words, it’s with numbers. Martin meets ARTHUR DEWITT (Danny Glover), a professor and an expert on children who possess special gifts when it comes to numbers. Now, it’s up to Martin to decipher the meaning and connect the numbers to the cast of characters whose lives they affect.

FOX has ordered 13 episodes of the new drama series TOUCH, created and written by Emmy-nominated Tim Kring (“Heroes”), it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. TOUCH, starring Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kiefer Sutherland, will join the schedule in the spring of 2012. The pilot was directed and executive-produced by Francis Lawrence (“Water for Elephants”), and the show comes from Chernin Entertainment and Tailwind Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television.

“TOUCH is another ambitious series from Tim Kring that is beautifully executed and has incredibly resonant themes for our times,” said Reilly. “With Kiefer back on the network as the face and force behind this creative new series, I’m confident it will resonate with viewers this spring.”

“Every once in a while, you encounter a piece of material that you just cannot say no to,” Sutherland added. “That, combined with the opportunity to work again with Peter Chernin and the Fox studio and network, makes me thrilled to be a part of this project. I also look forward to working with an extraordinary writer and producer like Tim Kring.”

TOUCH is a distinct and colorful 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.

TOUCH is a production of Chernin Entertainment and Tailwind Productions, in association with 20th Century Fox Television. Tim Kring created the series and wrote the pilot. Kring, Francis Lawrence, Peter Chernin (NEW GIRL, TERRA NOVA), Katherine Pope (NEW GIRL, TERRA NOVA), Sutherland, Suzan Bymel (“The War at Home”) and Carol Barbee (“Jericho”) are executive producers. Lawrence directed the pilot.

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