BBC3 get 'Touch'

Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, BBC Three's Controller Danny Cohen announced supernatural thiller Touch, from writer Jack Thorne (Skins, Cast Offs), for next year. The series revolves around a geek called Paul, who has the ability to see the dead and realizes they intend to destroy the living, unless he can stop them.

Ben Stephenson, BBC Drama Commissioner:

"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."

The six-part hour-long series will begin filming next year, with producer Caroline Skinner and exec-producer Sue Hogg involved. The show has not been cast yet.

Interestingly, Cohen also confirmed that none of this year's drama pilots that aired (Pulse, Dappers and Stanley Park) will be taken to series.