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Heroes creator Tim Kring is back with his first pilot since the superhero NBC drama, and this time, it is at Fox. Fox has given a pilot order to Touch, another project with supernatural overtones from Kring, which is being produced by 20th TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment. Touch centers on a father who discovers that his autistic, mute son can actually predict events before they happen. Kring wrote the project on spec, his first pilot script since Heroes. It was developed internally at Chernin Entertainment with the company’s head of TV Katherine Pope who had remained close with Kring after shepherding Heroes while at NBC and UMS. Because of 20th TV relationship with Fox, the spec was taken out to Fox first, and the network quickly gave it a pilot green light. Kring, Peter Chernin and Pope are executive producing Touch, one of two pilots picked up at Fox today. The network also greenlighted Little in Common, a single-camera comedy from Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas.
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Isn’t this the exact same plot as Mercury Rising?
nope… the kid in “mercury rising” can solve impossible word puzzles, not predict the future.
Love rob thomas aka mr badass
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Yay for Thomas, boo for Kring. Not interested in watching another one of his shows.
And I’m not interested in reading more drivel from Rob Thomas. Guess we’re both screwed.
At least he’s not trying to regurgitate old ideas… again.
Yeah, actually, Season 3 of VM was total crap. But he started well. Ha, a lot like Kring.
Autism is SOOO hot right now. Great call by everyone involved.
really! did you just say — autism is so hot right now — really… wow, so is brain dead I guess…
So very funny…really. Classic sbob. You make laugh. Thank you.
autism is a great idea. you know who would be great in the role as the father? someone kring and pope have had intimate involvement with via heroes: milo ventimiglia.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not right now but I really hope you are.
Not another show about people with supernatural powers. Can’t we have more shows about people achieving extraordinary things because of their own inner resources? Also sick of zombie and vampires.
After the dreck that Heroes became, I’m surprised this guy can get any traction with anything. Seriously, it was a show called Heroes where the main characters ended up doing nothing heroic. Expect the characters on this one to never have any physical contact with each other?
What? More middle-aged white men selling retread pilots?! It’s like a revolution. It is truly a new dawn in the Industry. I am so proud to be part of an industry that is so open-minded and ground-breaking.
I’m a Kring fan. Good for him. The good news is that at least this pilot is designed for a true series and not a miniseries as Heroes was originally intended. That should help from the get-go with avoiding the complete story drop-off that occurred after season 1.
Kring = yawn. Let me guess – he will hire Allan Arkush, Dennis whats his name, and Jim Chory and it will be Crossing Jordan and Heroes all over again. Same people – different story line. Still boring.
Let’s just hope he won’t hire the same writters who wrote the last three seasons of Heroes. They’re suck!