Touch

The US 2012/2013 television ratings season returns Monday September 24, 2012. As the new season nears, here is the Throng guide to US premiere dates and when these shows are likely to air in Australia. Continue reading »

Tuesday September 18 at 9.30pm on FOX8

Martin Bohm is a widower and single father who is haunted by an inability to connect to his emotionally challenged 11-year-old son Jake. But when Martin discovers that Jake can predict events before they happen, everything changes.

Ten programming for the week of July 1-7 is much the same as June 24-30. Sunday night, with the absence of MotoGP or Formula One includes a free to air premiere movie after Touch at 9.30pm. Meanwhile, Masterchef this week sees includes a Heston Blumenthal challenge and we all know how freaky he can get with food! Continue reading »

8.30pm Sunday May 6 on Ten

Martin (Keifer Sutherland) discovers that Jake secretly slipped a scrap of paper into his pocket. The note is a series of numbers, and Martin seeks Teller’s (Danny Glover) advice on what to do. Teller warns that if he ignores Jake’s numbers, the boy will experience the pain of the event. He also discloses that he has suspicions about the objectives of the care facility. Teller’s visit to the facility heightens those doubts.

Not having a clue where to start, Martin wanders the streets and encounters a street man, who calls himself the Invisible Prince. Martin quickly recognizes that in encountering this man, he has alighted upon the appointed path. He trails the man around Manhattan and pieces together a high-powered scheme that comprises a threat to the well-being of several innocent people. In the process, Martin  nds the true identity of the homeless man. Unbeknownst to Martin, the ? ow of this latest series of numbers also touches several down-heartened villagers in the poorest of South African villages, a despondent young woman at a California festival, as well as having an unexpected impact on Clea (GuGu Mbatha-Raw) .

8.30pm SUNDAY APRIL 29 on Ten

Even though Martin (Keifer Sutherland) knows he is to refrain from visiting Jake at the care facility, the new-found glimmer of hope that Jake is actually communicating through his repetitive numbers draws Martin to his son. The most current series of numbers seems to be a phone number to a local pawn shop. But when Martin arrives to talk with the owner, it appears that there is no connection. But the chain of events is already set in motion. And, this time the thread of connection spans the world. A boy in Moscow lives a life shunned by other children, and he doesn’t know why; a young man from India flies to New York determined to fulfill his father’s improbable last wish, and a lonely old man is diagnosed with cancer. None of them will have the thing they most want, unless Martin can decipher Jake’s newest code and somehow intervene. But those at the care facility want to keep Jake and Martin apart while they continue their evaluation. The one thing Martin wants most is his son. But in trying to stay connected while seeking the meaning of the numbers, Martin risks losing Jake for good.

When Touch launched in the UK, Throng UK’s Lynn Connolly attended a press screening hosted by BSkyB which featured a Q&A session with the star of the show, Kiefer Sutherland.  As Touch premieres tonight on Ten we thought we’d republish Lynn’s thoughts on the show here.

I attended the press screening in London of the pilot episode of Kiefer Sutherland’s new TV drama, Touch, and I have to conclude, simplistically put, it looks like it could be a brilliant drama.

There’s only one caveat to that, and that is that we’re asked to accept a good deal of information in the first episode; to take a number of the fundaments of the show as a given, and therefore, I suspect if people don’t watch beyond the pilot, they might misjudge it. Continue reading »

This week in The Biggest Loser, it is the race to the finale. Monday night is the night the contestants get to “train the trainers” – alway an hillarious episode of Biggest Loser. On Friday night, its the Young Talent Time Grand Finale – see which of the acts win the $100,000 grand prize. Continue reading »