Quirky And Great, CROSSING JORDAN To Return This Sunday

The great NBC series, CROSSING JORDAN, finally makes a steady return to the regular TV schedule at 10PM this Sunday. Originally it was scheduled by NBC to be the lead 8PM Friday show, but the success of 1VS. 100 managed to bump it from the schedule. The show has such a great cast, headed by the Canadian actress Jill Hennessy, whose on and off romantic interests in actor Jerry O'Connell's character provides an interesting storyline interwoven in the outrageous and quirky crime stories that Hennessy's character, Jordan Cavanaugh, a medical examiner manages to get all too caught up in.

Certainly you have to suspend your disbelief to accept that the medical examiner's office seems to have a revolving door with all sorts of witnesses to crimes parading in and out every few minutes, or the medical examiner character, Jordan Cavanaugh, getting caught right in the middle of a real serious crime story each week. But the quirky as well as the dramatic elements jell together so well, that CROSSING JORDAN is a real gem on the small screen.

Very strong supporting characters in the guise of actors Miguel Ferrier, Ravi Kapoor, Kathryn Hahn, Steve Valentine and Leslie Bibb really help to fill out the cast. Each are very fine actors more than capable of carrying along interesting side storylines.

Actress Jill Hennessy originally played a prosecutor on LAW & ORDER many seasons ago, but it is her role on CROSSING JORDAN that has really allowed her to prove her strong acting skills with the very strong scripts that the excellent writers provide each week. If NBC viewers can just hang on to 10PM and can just get beyond the obnoxious Donald Trump APPRENTICE program at 9PM, say tune in the CBS's COLD CASE or something, then sticking around to 10PM to catch CROSSING JORDAN is well worth while. CROSSING JORDAN remains one of the best written, best acted series over at NBC. A real gem since it debuted in 2001.