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SOURCE: WhatsPlaying.com

What’s this new show Kiefer Sutherland’s doing called Touch you ask?

Well, I could save myself some typing blisters and just say it’s a very intriguing mix of Lost and Kyle XY (and no, it’s not at all like 24) – or a series based ‘entirely’ around the kind of numbers that ruled Hurley’s life in Lost – that offers Sutherland the chance to play a type he doesn’t too often, the everyman.

But here’s a little more :

Sutherland plays a former journalist cum baggage handler Martin Bohm, a single father (He and his wife were due to see a divorce lawyer on Sep 12, 2001 – - fill in the rest) whose young son Jacob has always been – what some may describe as – special.

Jake is a numbers man…. and a climber.

‘Jake’ is climbing cell towers (the security cameras capture him at 3:18; same time he’s been setting the clock’s at the house on), doing strange things with cell phones, writing down winning lottery numbers before they’re drawn, and yet, has no voice. And no, this isn’t no Rainman situation either – the kid is a magic man. And dad knows it.

With human services threatening to take away his boy (they believe he’s autistic and needs to be institutionalized before he can harm anyone), Martin needs someone to listen to him… help him.

Thankfully, Martin’s got one supporter at human services – 27-year-old Clea Hopkins; she lends a sympathetic ear to Martin and will be the one to ultimately champion his cause to retain custody. But she, of course, is skeptical of Martin’s claims that his boy is picking lottery numbers and the like.

With the lad growing stranger by the day, a distraught and desperate Martin seeks a man he once saw on the Charley Rose show, Boris Podoltsky (A great part for a Judd Hirsch type), a disheveled but brilliant grump who can potentially help the former’s son. (‘The Podoltsky Institute’, much to Martin’s surprise, is an old row house).

Podoltsky explains to Martin that his boy is a “conduit for energy”. Human life, he goes on, is simply “electromagnetic energy and connections.” And you see, even though Martin’s son doesn’t communicate as we do, via speaking, he’s still a “radar” for these connections.

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SOURCES: TV GUIDE – IMDB.com

It’s official: Just one year after 24 ended, Kiefer Sutherland is plotting his return to TV.

Sutherland has signed on to star in the Fox drama pilot Touch, in which he will play a man who discovers that his autistic son can predict the future. Word of Sutherland’s interest in the pilot, written by Heroes creator Tim Kring, first emerged last week. But there was a big snag: Sutherland’s Broadway commitment — the actor currently stars on stage in the play That Championship Season — threatened to derail any immediate TV possibility.

But the 24 star knows a thing or two about time management. Insiders say that Fox and producer 20th Century Fox TV have agreed to figure out how to accommodate Sutherland’s Broadway schedule should Touch be picked up to series.

No one expected Sutherland to return to TV so quickly, having spent eight seasons as Jack Bauer on 24, a role he may still eventually reprise on the big screen. At least one Fox insider called Touch one of the best scripts he’s read all year — a sentiment expressed by others outside of Fox, as well. Sutherland was likely drawn to that, and the fact that former News Corp. boss Peter Chernin is an executive producer on the show.

Sutherland represents one of several high-profile TV veterans looking to make a return to the small screen this pilot season, a list that also includes Sarah Michelle Gellar and Tim Allen.