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Kiefer Sutherland Eyes TV Return With Fox Drama Pilot From ‘Heroes’ Creator

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 17, 2011 @ 8:02pm PSTTags: Fox Touch, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiefer Sutherland Touch, Tim Kring Touch, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Kiefer Sutherland is mulling a return to primetime with another Fox drama. The 24 star is in negotiations to topline drama pilot Touch, from Heroes creator Tim Kring. Like 24, Touch is produced by 20th Century Fox TV. Co-produced by Chernin Entertainment, Touch centers on a father (the role Sutherland has been offered) who discovers that his autistic, mute son can predict events before they happen. Kring wrote the project, his first pilot script since Heroes, on spec. Charles McDougall, who has helmed the pilots for ABC’s Desperate Housewives, ABC’s The Good Wife and, most recently, Fox’s The Chicago Code, is in talks to direct.

Complicating things are Sutherland’s duties on Broadway where he currently stars in a revival of the Jason Miller’s That Championship Season. The play, which marks Sutherland’s Broadway debut, opened last week. In order for Sutherland to be able to do Touch, its production may have to be pushed. Sutherland, repped by CAA and Management 360, spent eight seasons on 24 playing CTU agent Jack Bauer. It became his signature role and earned him an Emmy Award in 2006.

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Fox Picks Up Tim Kring Drama Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 6:54pm PSTTags: Chernin Entertaiment, Fox Little In Common, Fox Pilots, Fox Touch, Tim Kring, Tim Kring Touch, Touch, Touch Pilot Order, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

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 … Read More »

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