Kiefer Sutherland in 'Touch' with his emotions?

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So trying to find -- Away from fox for more than a year and a half Kiefer Sutherland returns to the network with a news show called.

Touch he says the decision to take on another series was an easy -- destiny when -- for greatness.

Kind of moments certainly in my career and in my life.

But it was a nine year commitment eight seasons 200 episodes the equivalent of a hundred movies.

And that's that's a serious commitment and when I went in to 24.

I had no experience in television so going into to making the decision to do something like touch.

I had all of this information that I hadn't had before.

Okay playing a single father to a severely autistic eleven year old son the drama mixes science and spirituality.

In her connecting several -- related characters -- a type of six degrees of separation.

Time to take some cost is based on oh really wonderful fable.

Chinese story called the red thread which is -- all the people in the course of a lifetime.

Are loosely connected by a red thread that it.

-- from ankle mangled ankle in the thread can stretch and it can band but it can't break.

And somehow in the last hundred years with a massive industrial and technological advancements we've broken this -- And this little kid.

Is -- uses -- put it all back.

Unlike his 24 days -- thought this new project would limit the bruising punishment he took saving the world.

Certainly in the pilot.

I got into two fights I lost one very badly and kind of the other one came to a draw I keep getting landscape because of my son.

Except that it's just a pretty.

Funny dynamic after 24 campaign Britain's home.

Touch as a preview airing January 25.

With the premiere on March 19.

In Hollywood William La Jeunesse Fox News.

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