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Ghost Whisperer
When: Returns on October 3; airs Friday nights at 8/7c on CBS.
Main Players: Jennifer Love Hewitt, David Conrad, Camryn Manheim, Jamie Kennedy
What’s it all about?: The series follows the life of Melinda Gordon, a woman who can communicate with the dead. The ghosts she’s visited by seek her help in relaying a message to those they’ve left behind.
Where’d we leave off?: There was an awful lot for Melinda to learn about her father in last season’s finale, but it’s back to business for her in the upcoming premiere, which brings her to a hospital to visit both her shrink and the ghost he thinks is alive.
CBS
NUMB3RS
When: Returns on October 3; airs Friday nights at 10/9c on CBS.
Main Players: David Krumholtz, Rob Morrow, Judd Hirsch, Peter MacNicol, Keith Carradine, Navi Rawat, Sophina Brown
What’s it all about?: A depiction of how the combination of police work and mathematics provides answers to the most perplexing of criminal conundrums.
Where’d we leave off?: Brothers Charlie and Don clashed hard in the climax of season three. So, where does that leave Charlie, whose decision on what he’ll do next will heavily impact the show we’ve come to know and enjoy? Veteran Lou Diamond Phillips, who fans know as Ian Edgerton, will return for the premiere, and another new face, Sophina Brown, joins the cast as a regular.