It's quite messy: On the DStv iPad app it says that Touch season 2 episode 1 is starting next week Monday (wrong) but season 2 is only starting in 2013. And when you search for Touch on the iPad, it shows that episode 13 is showing ... on Wednesday night at 00:00 (wrong again). And on the TV schedule it doesn't show anything.
That's what viewers are telling me about the drama Touch on M-Net and here is what is happening: The first season of Touch has 13 episodes but M-Net is concluding the first season of the new Kiefer Sutherland drama by showing South African viewers only 12 episodes and dropping the 13th episode of the 13 episode ordered Fox first season.
Upset viewers like this one asked me: It seems like M-Net thought that episode 12 of Touch was the final. The description in the information bar said 12 of 12, and in tweets they've said that the show Perception is replacing Touch when it's finished and will start on Monday 5 November. That's next week Monday. So basically no episode 13 planned, which is actually the final one. They even tweeted on Monday that the final is Monday night, and asking viewers what they think will happen..."
What happened is that M-Net didn't check to actually get the 13th episode and only has 12 episodes of the 13 episode first season of Touch. M-Net originally scheduled episode 12 and episode 13 to go out on Monday as a double bill, but had to change the schedule and remove episode 13 from its schedule later.
M-Net tells me that the 13th episode of Touch entitled "The Road not Taken" will air with the second season early next year on M-Net. "We are aware that internationally, the episode is listed as part of the first season, however we are licensed to air it as part of the second season."
