Patrick Wilson is "A Gifted Man" (8 tonight, CBS), a wealthy, brilliant and controlled neurosurgeon who runs into his ex-wife (Winston-Salem native Jennifer Ehle) one day. Funny thing is, she's been dead for two weeks.

This is either going to be "Ghost Whisperer" & "Touched by An Angel" with a little more smarts or a really interesting exploration of faith and science and the rational mind.  Fingers crossed that it's the latter; Jonathan Demme directs the pilot and "Erin Brockovich" screenwriter Susannah Grant wrote and created the show, which I'll take as a good sign.

There are some lazy stereotypes (Julie Benz as the doctor's sister is a mess, so, of course, she's the one to introduce him to the hippy shaman who helps explain the spirit world), but Ehle has an ethereal quality that's almost heart-breaking, and Wilson has really good moments as a man having his way of life challenged.