Fall TV gets strange

Spurred by the success of "Heroes," the networks get mysterious.

This is shaping up to be network television's year of magical thinking. ¶ As the parade of fall premieres bangs by in the coming weeks, viewers can't help but notice how many prime-time lead characters have acquired supernatural powers. ¶ A single touch from the hero of ABC's "Pushing Daisies" can raise the dead, but another tap, and it's a one-way ticket back to the undiscovered country. The protagonist of NBC's "Journeyman" inexplicably and unexpectedly time-travels; a teen in the CW's "Reaper" becomes a bounty hunter for the devil; and a gumshoe in CBS' "Moonlight" is a human-friendly vampire.