I didn’t know what "The CW" was and I really didn’t care until this week when I heard a Terry Gross Fresh Air interview with actor Ray Wise and director Kevin Smith (directed Clerks and Dogma) about their new TV series on that channel called Reaper. I just finished watching the first episode and I loved it.

The main character, Sam, discovers on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the
devil. As a result, Sam has to be the devil’s bounty hunter and return escaped souls to hell. The show has some nice touches: The beginning scene features Beck‘s Devil’s Haircut, for example.

This is the trailer for Reaper but the female love interest is totally not the same actress as the show I watched:

Okay, this one has the right actress in it:

Here’s a shorter one:

On the set of Reaper:

Just found this. It’s the entire first episode: