Touch - BBC Three Zombie show

[Bob The Skutter]

A new Supernatural Thriller called Touch has just been announced for BBC Three, it was originally going to be part of the pilot season earlier this year and they decided it was good enough to just go ahead with, while they've decided against any of the pilots they showed.

From acclaimed theatre, film and TV writer Jack Thorne (Skins, The Scouting Book For Boys, Cast Offs) comes an edge-of-the-seat supernatural thriller, made by BBC Drama Production.

In Touch the vengeful dead walk on Earth and only uber-geek Paul can save the living from a fiery Armageddon.

Paul is an ordinary young man from an ordinary town who discovers an extraordinary ability – he can see the dead. As he comes to terms with a nightmare reality he meets others who share his powers and share a horrifying secret – the spirits are waging war on the living. Mankind will be destroyed.

But the most terrifying twist is yet to come – Paul discovers that only he holds the key to the world's salvation.

It'll be 6 1 hour episodes and it'll be filming next year.

 

[sojourner]

I don't get it, where are the zombies?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

He also revealed a new drama commission – Touch, by Jack Thorne, which he described as a "supernatural zombie drama about a geeky teenager who discovers he can see zombies and only he can save the world".

It is a little vague as to what it means by he can see Zombies, I mean surely if zombies are around everyone can see them.

 

[sojourner]

Sounds like Jack needs to do some research on his topic. He is describing ghosts, not zombies.

I give this a failing grade based on lack of research.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

How can you do that? When there's basically no information on it and it could be the website reporting it that is misinformed.

 

[sojourner]

What website?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I got that it was a Zombie show off Guardian.co.uk. The description in the original post is from BBC Press Office though

 

[scnj]

Hmm. I was hoping for another show along the lines of Dead Set, but with The Walking Dead out to fill that niche, I can settle for watching this too.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Looks like The Guardian got it wrong and it is Ghosts.

From Digital Spy

BBC Three has confirmed that it has greenlit new six-part supernatural drama Touch.

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, channel controller Danny Cohen confirmed that that the show will begin filming next year.

The series will be written by Jack Thorne, whose past work includes Skins and Channel 4 mockumentary Cast Offs. It will follow Paul, an awkward young man who can interact with ghosts and soon uncovers a war between the living and the dead.

Drama controller Ben Stephenson said: "Touch started life as one of our drama pilots but quickly showed such imagination and energy that we asked the hugely talented Jack Thorne to write five more episodes, and Touch the series was born."

 

[Starkers]

Hmm, could be interesting...

 

[Dac]

Yeeeaaah, I'll give it a shot, but that description doesn't initially fill me with confidence.

Ordinary Boy from an Ordinary town just seems like a cliched way of not being bothered to write any back story.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Erm, this is basically a press release for a show that's not even in production yet, what do you expect a detailed plot break down for all 6 episodes?

 

[Starkers]

To be fair I find the 'I can see dead people' bit less interesting than a war between the living and the dead, that seems a trifle more original.