(S02E13) "He who sells miracles will have the devil knocking at his door."/"What's that? A proverb?"/"A fortune cookie." - Alec to Parker

Probably the most interesting aspect of 'Leverage', other than Parker's wonderful taste in form fitting dresses, is the way it manages to top itself in small areas.

Not every episode is a home run in every category on the checklist, but it does find new ways to heighten the action, increase the twists and broaden their stories give or take an episode.

I've mentioned this before, but I see last night that yet another person-who-talks-to-the-dead show premiered, this one on Lifetime. To quote the shorthand so popular in IMs these days, WTF??

It's called Lisa Williams: Life Among The Dead. It's not a drama, it's real (I guess). She's a real medium who talks to the dead.

Sigh.

When Lifetime bought rights to the off-network reruns of Medium, they were probably thinking that showing reruns of Frasier or Strong Medicine weren't the best accompaniments to the Patricia Arquette psychic drama. So what do they do? They go hire their own psychic! In a move that gives "Biggest Douche in the Universe" John Edward company on the TV landscape, the network has signed a deal with Merv Griffin Entertainment too do a six-episode reality show starring British psychic Lisa Williams. This TV Week article doesn't have many details, but it looks like the show is going to follow Williams around as she helps people out in "real life", as opposed to having a bunch of people sit in a studio while guys like Edward ask them if they have a relative with a name that starts with "B". Griffin himself wil be the executive producer. Boy, the old coot really knows how to mint money, doesn't he?