letterten 2005-06 fall preview

debuted September 8, 9pm

concept from	One of six childhood friends (Will Estes, Chyler Leigh and Amanda Righetti, among others) has been murdered. As a detective (Mathew St. Patrick of Six Feet Under) investigates, the trail takes him back 20 years to the friends' 1986 high-school graduation. Each episode is a flashback to a pivotal point in a different year. The story advances year by year, week by week, until we learn whodunit.
stars	Dave Annable, Alexa Davalos, Will Estes, Sean Faris, Chyler Leigh, Amanda Righetti, Mathew St. Patrick
producers	Jon Harmon Feldman, Steve Pearlman, Andrew Plotkin
studio	Warner Bros. TV, Class IV Prods.

i opine...
	It's a closed world, planned to play over one season. Will that make folks want the to make the commitment to watch? It's got a great lead in with "The O.C." and is actually an interesting sounding concept without (I haven't even seen even a clip) getting gimmicky. Oh yeah, the cast is very pretty. LOL.

the breakdown
	This has the potential to be yanked early, but I don't think it will be. The lead-in and the concept could produce some sampling...bad slot for launch: between Trump on NBC and "CSI" on CBS, who's left?