
** FILE ** Actor Kiefer Sutherland, star of the Fox series "24," arrives at the Fox Fall Eco-Casino party in Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

** FILE ** Actor Kiefer Sutherland arrives at the Fox Fall Eco-Casino party in Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

** FILE ** Actor Kiefer Sutherland, star of the Fox series "24," arrives at the Fox Fall Eco-Casino party in Los Angeles on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Actor Kiefer Sutherland speaks about his TV drama "Touch" during a press conference in Tokyo on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Actor Kiefer Sutherland speaks about his TV drama "Touch" during a press conference in Tokyo on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Kiefer Sutherland is the father of a son played by David Mazouz, who is mute but has an outsized ability with numbers, in the new TV series "Touch." It debuts Thursday on Fox. (Fox Television via Associated Press)

Kiefer Sutherland, whose Fox series "24" ended in 2010, is preparing for a movie based on the series and working on a new Fox series, to be called "Touch." (Associated Press)