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Kiefer Sutherland's Return To Television Gets Cautious Praise

Kiefer Sutherland can't have felt anything but pressure as his first major TV role since 10 phenomenal years spent on '24' aired for the first time last night (26 January 2012).
Fans and critics were certainly eager to see how the Canadian actor was going to follow up what has come to be known as one of the iconic TV characters of the 21st century in secret agent Jack Bauer.
'Touch,' which sees Sutherland playing a single father of a mute son who sees things other cannot, aired last night for the first time - and the answer to whether he's managed to follow up what may be career defining role successfully?
A cautious yes, according to the critics.
Newsday was effusive in its praise, saying the program was "A bit melodramatic, a bit manipulative, Touch is still one of the best pilots of the 2011-12 season to date," and others were similar praiseworthy though understandably a little more cautious given it was the pilot episode.
"It's Mr. Sutherland's portrayal of the father--unyielding in his effort to break through to his mute child and grasp what he's trying to say with his numbers--that is the heart of this story, the power likely to sustain this promising enterprise," said the Wall Street Journal, whilst
TV Guide said "[Touch is] emotionally compelling but wildly fantastical and undeniably manipulative."Not all were enthused though, The New York Times commented "The 11-year-old boy at the center of the story has never spoken and is also the show's narrator.
It's a perfectly acceptable device, if not a particularly interesting one in this case," whilst the Los Angeles Times weren't fans at all, stating "Ironically, given a show that so clearly wants to touch its audience--from that weighty one-word title on down--we have met, apart from Martin, hardly a single character who incorporates more than the hint of an actual person.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Jack Bauer Is Gunning for NYC Next Season

By MATT MITOVICH

TV GUIDE

He who takes a big bite out of global crime soon will take a bite out of the Big Apple;

A Fox spokesperson confirms that 24's eighth season will be set in New York City.
Now, before you go buy bus tickets and only add to the glut of tourists who make evening walks through Times Square rather frustrating, know this:

The Fox series will shoot the majority of its New York City scenes in Los Angeles,

though hopefully with greater believability than Seinfeld did with its pristine and sun-drenched sidewalks.

Kiefer Sutherland will, though, lens a few establishing scenes here and there in Manhattan,

to be spliced in throughout Jack's next very bad day.
24 starts up production on Season 8 at the end of May,

with an eye on a January 2010 premiere.

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