Kiefer Sutherland Returns to TV in touch: Bid farewell to Jack Bauer

Touch, Kiefer Sutherland Here's the primary one factor Kiefer Sutherland and Tim Kring want you to learn about their forthcoming Fox series Touch: It's nothing can beat 24. (Although we'd fun trying to attract critiques!) Whereas the terrorist-destroying, world-saving hero Jack Bauer was the kind of pent-up angst and repressed emotion, Sutherland's new alter ego, Martin Bohm, might be the precise opposite. Touch, the newest from Heroes boss Kring, notifies the story of widower Martin Bohm, the dad from the mute boy who provides hiding for that uncanny capacity for connecting designs and uncover this really is behind apparently unrelated occasions happening around the world. Start Searching: Watch Kiefer Sutherland make an effort to save the earth again in Fox's Touch Sutherland mentioned the advantage of playing Martin was his total contrast to Jack. "The possibility I'd in 24 wound up being to repress," he told reporters Sunday throughout Fox's winter TV preview. "[With Martin,] freely showing and becoming emotional reactions regarding the is happening in this exact moment is an additional fantastic chance." "In 24, the repression got heavier and heavier. Hopefully, this could become progressively more open," he mentioned. Also: Martin, unlike Jack, "reaches sit lower," Sutherland joked. "He reaches sit lower this will let you conversation." The:must-see new shows in the midseason As well as the versions don't finish there. Touch is certainly an unapologetically feel-good series, telling stand-alone, frequently sentimental tales of humanity's interconnectedness Heroes fans shouldn't expect the identical quantity of serialization. "Each week is really a different number of figures together with another slice-of-existence story," Kring mentioned. The solutions for the show's overarching mystery - the story behind Jake's gift - won't be overlooked, additionally they won't function as series' driving narrative. Kring isn't divulging any hints about people solutions yet either except to convey that Jake's abilities won't be treated like superpowers à la Heroes. Concurrently, "as storytellers, you need to reserve the idea to indicate that there are another factor, something supernatural or other, floating above this." More valuable to Kring is foregrounding Touch's uber-positive theme. "I've been considering this idea of interconnectivity for just about any super very long time. This really is really an chance to carry on I guess what happens you'd call 'social-benefit storytelling'... creating and marketing an positive energy in the world.In . See the trailer for Touch, which premieres Wednesday, Jan. 25 at 9/8c on Fox: