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My Entertainment Weekly arrived this weekend, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a two-page glossy ad for the return of SciFi Channel's Eureka. It's gratifying to see the basic cable channel promoting the show with such a push. So many of my favorite shows (Studio 60, Traveler, The Class) get the short shrift by their networks if they don't immediately live up to expectations.
Eureka is a delightfully eccentric show, a sort of lighter-hearted X-Files, a less eccentric Twin Peaks, with a dash of Picket Fences and Northern Exposure thrown in. The show stars the goofily handsome Colin Ferguson (who I've adored since More Tales of the City) as the new sheriff of the small town of Eureka, an enclave of brilliant thinkers, inventors and specially gifted people. The town houses a research institute, appropriated by the government, with some very likely sinister undercurrents.
Each episode finds some sort of invention gone wrong, or scientific anomaly occurring, causing befuddlement in our ordinary Sheriff--who ultimately figures everything out. It's a curious, offbeat pleasure, every time. The new season begins Tuesday, July 10 at 9:00 pm Eastern/Pacific. Highly recommended.
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