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As counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer in the hit Fox series "24," Kiefer Sutherland played a man who had to keep his feelings inside in order to save the world. In his new Fox series, "Touch" – which has its regular time-slot premiere Thursday, March 22 – Sutherland's character, Martin Bohm, is still having a global impact, but his methods couldn't be more different. "Jack Bauer, as a character, is so repressed; that was his job," Sutherland says. "His job was to be able to pocket his emotions, so he could take on what was seemingly an insurmountable task. "Martin is almost the opposite, where his emotions are very much out front. He has a very simple desire, which is to develop, as he perceives it, as normal as possible a relationship with his son. What he finds out, as soon as he starts to forget or let go of what he perceives as a normal relationship with his son and starts actually engaging with his son on his son's level, or making an effort at that, that's when the relationship just starts to grow. "That is a very outwardly emotional process for him, so, yeah, from a character standpoint, it's a wonderful change to have that opportunity." Bohm is the widowed father of 11-year-old Jake (David Mazouz), who is emotionally challenged and refuses to allow himself to be touched, but who is obsessed with numbers and busies himself with rebuilding discarded cellphones. Caring and thoughtful, Martin has tried everything he can to get through to his son, but he comes to discover Jake has a unique ability to perceive patterns in the world unseen by most, invisible threads that connect seemingly unrelated individuals and events. Jake is trying to put back together pieces of a world that has become fractured, and his father is drawn into that quest, with the help of social worker Clea Hopkins (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and professor Arthur Teller (Danny Glover). "It's a procedural drama," says Sutherland, "but it's a story about fate. It's based on a Chinese fable called 'The Red Thread,' which means that every person who's supposed to come into contact with each other over the course of a lifetime is connected by this loose red thread. This thread can stretch, and it can bend, and it can turn, but it can't break. (ESPN2) College GameDay (Live) (HD) (TBS) NCAA Basketball (HD) FRIDAY 2:30 p.m. (CSNBA) NBA D-League Bas- ketball Sioux Falls Skyforce at Dakota Wizards. 3:00 p.m. (TBS) NCAA Basketball (HD) 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) College Basketball Live (Live) (HD) 4:00 p.m. (CBS-12) 2012 NCAA Basket- ball Tournament Regional Semifi- nal: Teams TBA. 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