Kiefer Sutherland's New Lethal Weapon: Danny Glover To Join Fox Drama Pilot 'Touch'

Kiefer Sutherland's latest Fox drama has picked up a little extra firepower. Here's hoping he just isn't getting too old for this s***.

Veteran actor Danny Glover has signed up to star along the former "24" headliner in a pilot for Sutherland's newest Fox drama, "Touch." Sutherland will portray a father that has to cope with knowing that his son (David Mazouz) can see events before they happen. Glover will play Professor Arthur DeWitt, an expert in children with special abilities that relate to numbers, according to TVLine.

It's Sutherland's first major TV project since "24" left the air in 2010. Sutherland starred as Counter-Terrorist Unit extraordinaire Jack Bauer for eight seasons, 192 episodes and the TV movie "24: Redemption" before Fox axed the show midway into its eigth season. Since then, he's remained fairly low-key, working only on a few movies like "Melancholia," "Marmaduke" and "The Confession."

It's a much more rare bit of steady small-screen work for Glover. Throughout his career, he's dealt almost exclusively in cameos and the odd TV movie, the most recent work being respective one-off roles on "My Name is Earl" (2009), "Human Target" (2010) and a planned role in 2011 on "Psych" - which just makes me wonder if he'll be the third actor after Ernie Hudson and Keith David to play Gus' dad.

This is the pessimism talking, but don't get too attached to this show. For one thing, there have been so many "predict-the-future"-gimmick TV shows and movies over the last 10 years or so and none of them seem to work out so well, since they grow predictable so easily.

Not the least of which is the one that "Touch" writer and executive producer Tim Kring last helmed: "Heroes," which was like a sexy Corvette that purred like a kitten and gunned up to 85 the first two miles off the lot, before it hit a can in the road and lost all four wheels at once.