Fox cancels Touch, dangles prospect of new 24 to keep Kiefer Sutherland occupied
No sooner had it gotten around to canceling the atrociously rated Touch—that Tim Kring-created, Kiefer Sutherland-starring show about how all of humanity is connected by mathematics or whatever—than did the Fox television network immediately turn its eyes toward rebooting 24 as a limited-run series (or, as we used to call them, a “miniseries), perhaps just because Sutherland needed to be kept occupied with something. Deadline doesn’t have any news beyond “this might exist,” but efforts to reboot the long-running series as a movie franchise ran aground, and a miniseries would likely do big business for the network, so it’s not the worst idea we’ve ever heard, outside of, y’know, it being completely creatively bankrupt and the show running a couple of seasons too long (despite some good material in seasons seven and eight) and etc.