I watched the pilot of this show online last night as part of some market research ABC is doing. I don’t think it’s on the fall schedule – maybe a mid-season replacement. By the time I’d finished watching the entire episode, the research web site said they already had enough responses in my demographic, so I didn’t get selected to give them feedback. And so I didn’t get the $12 they’d promised me!

So here’s my review anyway:

It’s like Dirty Sexy Money meets Eli Stone, set in the auto industry. The lead character’s estranged father, an auto tycoon/maverick, had died in a suspicious accident, and the son inherits everything. Will he leave his job as a college philosophy professor and move back to Detroit to run the company?

I didn’t know the lead actor, but I guess he was in October Road. Lots of other good character actors, including Aiden Quinn, Sharon Lawrence, the bald guy who played Drew Carey’s brother, and the classy Andie MacDowell as the widow.

The comparison to Eli Stone comes in because the lead character keeps seeing things that aren’t really there: ghostly things maybe done by his father’s ghost. It’s like Dirty Sexy Money because it’s about a son taking over for a dead father, and searching for the cause of his death and coming to reconcile their broken relationship.

That said, I’m not sure I’d watch the show regularly, in part because I already watch too much TV, and this didn’t really grab me. But maybe I just need some time to let the characters grow on me – if it ever makes it to air.