I need the Sci Fi Channel.George Michael is God. No, not the version of George Michael who keeps appearing in the press for the wrong reasons but the George Michael who pops up at key moments in Eli Stone. This singing, dancing and acting star can do no wrong.
Sporting an impeccable American accent, Miller is Eli Stone, a hotshot lawyer who suffers an attack of ethical conscience when Michael appears like a vision of 1980s heavenliness in his waking life. It's the cue for Eli to turn his life around - and get in touch with his inner prophet.
The running gag is that each episode sports one of Michael's songs as its signature theme. And where else could a spiritual quest begin but with Faith, the chart-topping riff causing a spot of coitus interruptus between Eli and his fiancée when it first invades our hero's head.
Subsequent episodes include Freedom, Father Figure and, of course, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go.
It's Michael's lyrics that set the spiritual tone of Eli Stone, a show that chimes with the times with its hero's emerging search for inner fulfilment. Diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain condition, Eli reaches outside the cynical world he finds himself in and looks for a deeper meaning. But it's far from heavy: there are some great song-and-dance numbers.
The series builds to a lung-busting finale and climaxes with a show-stopping version of Nina Simone's Feeling Good - which will be Georges Christmas single.
Loves it.
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