A Great Show You May Not Be Watching

In television there are shows known as mid-season replacements, which can basically be pinch hitters when another show fails to connect in the ratings. They can either be inane reality/game shows (which they often are) or...they can turn out to be quite the little gem. Lest we forget that such TV titans as Grey's Anatomy and The Office both premiered in January. Well this past January, I discovered another Gem in ABC's Eli Stone. Not only was it a good show, it was like an Oasis of Scripted Television in the midst of the reality soaked writer's strike. Check out the Promo below:



The reason I am blogging about Eli Stone now is that ABC is repeating the first season starting this Saturday at 10/9 central. Set your DVR...or go to abc.com, where I believe the whole season is still available online. It's a fun and quirky show that really grew with every episode, and I am VERY excited to see where they take it in the second season. I am not going to say too much about the plot, cause you can get the basic premise of the show from the promo, and I would rather you take the same journey with Eli that I did. But I will give you 5 reasons why you should watch...

1) Jonny Lee Miller (aka Angelina's first husband) is hot and immensely likable as Eli.
2) Any show that features George Michael in a recurring role has got to be worth a look.
3) It's from Greg Berlanti, the current exec producer and show runner of Brothers and Sisters. If you love THAT show as much as I do, you can get a good idea of what to expect as far as writing and family drama from Eli Stone.
4) It features Broadway Vets Victor Garber and Loretta Devine (aka Adele on Grey's). Yay for the Broadway Peeps working on TV.
5) Characters often break out into song and dance. If you love musicals like me, you gotta check out some of the numbers on the show. See reason #4 and expect awesomeness.

I think what I like most about this show is its recurring theme that it is NEVER too late to change what direction your life is going in; no matter how much you may dislike about the person you are, you ARE capable of change if you wish it; and the very thing that you THINK could be your life's tragedy could be the very thing that saves it. Comforting thoughts, no?