The series starred Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak, an investigative reporter whose wife was murdered.

He is helped along the way by a fellow crime reporter Perri Reed (Gabrielle Union), photographer Jain McManus (Eric Jungmann) and editor Anthony Vincenzo (Cotter Smith).

[5] Its first episode was broadcast on Thursday, September 29, at 9 p.m. against CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS, The Apprentice on NBC and the 2005 MLB playoffs on Fox.

However, some time after the cancellation, the seventh episode appeared on Apple's iTunes Music Store for download.

In Australia, the Seven Network free-to-air station and Prime in regional areas screened the series between early June and September 2007.