This show was absolutely nothing like the original Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Nothing. It takes itself way too seriously. Kolchak did not have a wife or a partner. Skip this dreck.

Hello, can someone convince those people at ABC that Night Stalker, maybe with the odd tweak here and there, could be the best series they have ever produced. After a few episodes they would have had an army of followers clamouring for them.ABC killed the goose that laid the golden egg. I have only seen a few episodes, they were relegated to cable early in the morning, not a good time for people to watch such quality. The theme music alone deserves a chapter to be written praising it. It has happened a few times before, in the past, that good television series have been axed by incompetents in order to get attention and explain their jobs; this is too much. To kill off this series is tantamount to throw away good money into the river. When one has a good idea stick to it! Most of all do not immediately place the first episode against solid series like CSI, let the viewers savour it first by allocating it to a safer slot. They will come back for more and more as time goes by. By the way, "what" are those people at ABC??

I just want to say when I first saw the trailers I was expecting the same formula of the 1970's show of the dead-beat, crusty reporter dealing with the supernatural though it would be updated for the 2000's for the Generation Y crowd. Unfortunately after watching several episodes, this show is more of HOMICIDE:LIFE ON THE STREETS with a little X-FILES or Millennium thrown in to make it "interesting". I will say as a show in its OWN RIGHT it is not bad. I am not really to much into crime shows since Michael Mann's CRIME STORY from several years ago.I think if this show had a different name, it might have been better. The reason (in my opinion) why the series did not go to far was the TITLE. Many fans were disappointed because there was no vampire, or Jack the Ripper or invisible alien being that this "updated" Karl Kolchak has to fight. My other reason why this series did not make it was the lack of Kolchak getting in arguments with his current boss, unlike the original Kolchak did with his editor boss, Vincenzo. Kolchak's paparazzi tactics in trying to get the bottom of the story always got him in the hot seat with the cranky Vincenzo which was great and funny at the same time.This type of conflict is NOT IN THIS SERIES AT ALL. No characters to conflict to the point of absurdity. The makers of this series just went off to tangent and wanted to make a serious television show with X-FILES/Millennium influences in mind. I think if fans of the old series try to forget the TITLE, then they may find the series enjoyable. BE FOREWARNED FANS OF THE OLD NIGHTSTALKER SERIES, YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS UPDATED VERSION IF YOU ARE EXPECTING THE OLD CHARACTERS AND STORY LINES OF THE 1970'S MOVIES AND SHOWS.

Excellent show, so much more - more modernized compared to the OLDER series - back in the day. Good story lines, your never left behind or left predictable. A lot of Competiveness leading those in dangerous situations, for the sake of....the truth & prove it. Not easy. Stuart Townsend is a great, he's a reporter who brings mystery when he's on the screen (a little reckless, but you know he believes & so will you) Gabriel Union plays his rival, (who shoots straight from the hip)who wants to trust him, but just cant grip all the supernatural occurrence's this show brings(kind of similar to the x-files(which made it famous & millions as well)you know the story - Scully is always fighting Mulder with his far fetched ideas of the supernatural) This is a great show with good acting, but it just hasn't gotten the proper publicity it deserves to have.