Ghost Whisperer  Fridays, 8:00-9:00 p.m. on CBS

Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has a gift - she can communicate with earthbound spirits or ghosts who cling to the living because they have unfinished business in our world preventing them from "crossing over" or going into the light. Inspired in part by the work of famed medium James Van Praagh and of Mary Ann Winkowski, a real-life communicator with earth bound spirits, GHOST WHISPERER explores the spiritual side of life and death. Melinda navigates between the dead and the living with her sometimes chilling, sometimes heart-rending and sometimes amusing actions as an intermediary between the ghosts and those they haunt. Although she is very good at being an intermediary she never publicizes this gift instead is known around town as a newlywed and the owner of the successful antiques store, Same As it Never Was.

Firefighter Jim Clancy (David Conrad), Melinda's husband, knows that being an intermediary between the living and dead can take an emotional toll on his wife and worries that he might not be able to protect her as well as he would like. Melinda has also recently revealed her gift to new friend and employee, Delia Banks (Camryn Manheim), a single mom of teenager Ned Banks (Christoph Sanders). Melinda fears what the consequences might be of drawing Delia into this unconventional world, as Delia, unlike her son Ned, is a bit skeptical of Melinda's gift - although she loves Melinda unconditionally as a friend. Melinda has also shared her secret with Eli James (Jamie Kennedy), a psychology professor at Rockland University, who is a unique individual - he has the gift of hearing ghosts, but not seeing them. For her part, Melinda accepts her unique abilities as a blessing and sometime curse, but always helps her clients, alive or dead, find emotional closure.

Currently in it's fourth season, Ghost Whisperer plunges into new territory by literally rocking the foundations of the series with a new mythology - Love Transcends Death.

ORIGINATION: Los Angeles (film)
PREMIERE: Sept. 23, 2005
STARRING: Jennifer Love Hewitt as Melinda Gordon
David Conrad as Jim Clancy
Camryn Manheim as Delia Banks
Jamie Kennedy as Eli James
Christoph Sander as Ned Banks

PRODUCED BY: Sander/Moses Productions, in association with ABC Studios and CBS Paramount Network Television.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ian Sander, Kim Moses, P.K. Simonds

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: James Van Praagh

CONSULTANT: Mary Ann Winkowski

CREATOR/ CONSULTANT: John Gray