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From writer/creator Tim Kring (“Heroes,” “Crossing Jordan”) and executive producers Peter Chernin (TERRA NOVA) and Katherine Pope (TERRA NOVA) comes TOUCH, a preternatural drama in which science and spirituality intersect with the hopeful premise that we are all interconnected, tied in invisible ways to those whose lives we are destined to alter and impact.
You can watch the full trailer here: http://thevoiceoftv.com/videos/kiefer-su...h-trailer/ (http://thevoiceoftv.com/videos/kiefer-su...h-trailer/)
Through masterful storytelling, the series follows a group of seemingly unrelated characters – beginning with a former firefighter tormented by his inability to save a dying woman, an Iraqi teenager who will go to great risks to help his family, a gifted singer whose actions at a karaoke bar save lives thousands of miles away and a British businessman desperately trying to retrieve a key piece of information from his lost mobile phone – who affect each other in ways seen and unseen.
At the center is MARTIN BOHM (Kiefer Sutherland, “24?), a widower and single father, haunted by an inability to connect to his mute, severely autistic 11-year-old son, JAKE. Caring, intelligent and thoughtful, Martin has tried everything to reach his son who shows little emotion and never allows himself to be touched by anyone, including Martin. Jake busies himself with cast-off cell phones, disassembling them and manipulating the parts, allowing him to see the world in his own special way.
After multiple failed attempts at keeping Jake in school, Martin is visited by social worker CLEA HOPKINS, who insists on doing an evaluation of the Bohms’ living situation. Although new at her job, Clea sees a man whose life has become dominated by a child he can no longer control. She believes his attempts to communicate with Jake are just wish fulfillment, and determines that it’s time for the state to intervene. But everything changes when Martin discovers that Jake possesses a gift of staggering genius – the ability to see things that no one else can, the patterns that connect everything. Jake is indeed communicating after all. But it’s not with words, it’s with numbers. And now he needs Martin to decipher their meaning and connect these numbers to the cast of seemingly unrelated characters whose lives they affect.
Along the way, Martin will be guided by BORIS PODOLSKY, a discredited aging professor who offers Martin a compelling but unorthodox theory about Jake and his rare ability. Whether it be chance, coincidence, timing, synergy or fate, there are events that touch us all, as part of an interconnected, dazzlingly precise universe.
TOUCH is a production of 20th Century Fox Television, Tailwind Productions and Chernin Entertainment. The series is created and written by Tim Kring. Kring, Francis Lawrence (“Water for Elephants”), Peter Chernin, Katherine Pope, Kiefer Sutherland and Suzan Bymel (“The War at Home”) are executive producers. Lawrence will direct the pilot. Source: http://thevoiceoftv.com/videos/kiefer-su...h-trailer/ (http://thevoiceoftv.com/videos/kiefer-su...h-trailer/)
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Kiefer Sutherland sucks balls. I'll avoid this like the plague, not that I watch broadcast TV anyway.
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I like Keifer.
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I may give it a view. I have been watching Alphas on Syfy, the have a brilliant autistic spazz on that show too.
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It's strange. I hate watching people with autism on TV. It always just makes me feel self-concious, and I keep wondering to myself if that's what I'm like.
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I may give it a view. I have been watching Alphas on Syfy, the have a brilliant autistic spazz on that show too.
Have they moved away from the Rainman stereotype?
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It's strange. I hate watching people with autism on TV. It always just makes me feel self-concious, and I keep wondering to myself if that's what I'm like.
I didn't really like Mozart And The Whale myself. I watch Alphas more because it is entertaining sci fi than because of the autistic team member.
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I didn't really like Mozart And The Whale myself.
Me either.
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It's strange. I hate watching people with autism on TV. It always just makes me feel self-concious, and I keep wondering to myself if that's what I'm like.
I didn't really like Mozart And The Whale myself. I watch Alphas more because it is entertaining sci fi than because of the autistic team member.
I've never seen Mozart and the Whale, but I would avoid it. I could never watch it with a NT friend. I would spend the whole film squirming and cringing as I saw some of my worse qualities being exagerated, and I would spend the whole film thinking " is that how they see me" :LOL:
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It's strange. I hate watching people with autism on TV. It always just makes me feel self-concious, and I keep wondering to myself if that's what I'm like.
:D:D:D
dont you know, even around here your like THE resident autist!
your autism reeks from miles away, i tell ya : o
:zoinks:
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It's strange. I hate watching people with autism on TV. It always just makes me feel self-concious, and I keep wondering to myself if that's what I'm like.
:D:D:D
dont you know, even around here your like THE resident autist!
your autism reeks from miles away, i tell ya : o
:zoinks:
:agreed:
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I never seen anyone with autism (or anyone portraying someone with autism) on TV. :dunno:
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I never seen anyone with autism (or anyone portraying someone with autism) on TV. :dunno:
There was a few programmes about people with autism here. I caught bits of them and found it painfull viewing.
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I may give it a view. I have been watching Alphas on Syfy, the have a brilliant autistic spazz on that show too.
Have they moved away from the Rainman stereotype?
Sounds like not. Seems that the majority of autistics portrayed on tv are savants in some way. In reality, this is not the case at all.
I don't have anything in common with the severely autistic.
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I may give it a view. I have been watching Alphas on Syfy, the have a brilliant autistic spazz on that show too.
Have they moved away from the Rainman stereotype?
Sounds like not. Seems that the majority of autistics portrayed on tv are savants in some way. In reality, this is not the case at all.
I don't have anything in common with the severely autistic.
most Autists are not very interesting to the TV public, unless they have some special thing about them, like being savant
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I may give it a view. I have been watching Alphas on Syfy, the have a brilliant autistic spazz on that show too.
Have they moved away from the Rainman stereotype?
Gary is much more multi faceted than Raymond.
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I want to touch someone.
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badly
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I usually don't like being touched.
Unless it's fucking. Then I'm all for it.
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I prefer to be the one doing most of the touching.
But other than EROTICALLY I dont like touch either. I hate it when people hug. I dunno how many people Ive offended when I oput my hand up and say no. WTF. perv. They just wanted to feel my boobies against them anyway.
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Yeah, no thanks on the hugging. Especially when people squeeze. Makes me want to murder.
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fist-bumping, hand shaking both I dislike. One always gets weird looks when you refuse to shake, bump, or slap hands
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fist-bumping, hand shaking both I dislike. One always gets weird looks when you refuse to shake, bump, or slap hands
me and my dad were picking my sister up from summer camp and one of her friends was trying to get me to high five him while i was going towards the car... i got in the car and closed the door and looked at him. through the open window he said "Come on dude high five" and i just stared at him as i closed the window... i HATE it when people dont get the message.
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I hate being touched but I have to tolerate the handshakes because of what I do.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUnSuYYs18 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUnSuYYs18#)