Premieres: Sept. 29
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Airs: Mondays at 9 p.m. ET
Every day is a tough day for Danny McCoy (Josh Duhamel). He's the protigi to one of Las Vegas's most successful surveillance chiefs, Big Ed Deline (James Caan), but he's also sleeping with the boss' wild daughter Delinda (Molly Simms). In addition to the usual array of cheats, scam artists and troublemakers who fill his casino, Danny has to deal with his longtime friend Mary (Nikki Cox), a high class escort, former security rival and new colleague Sam (Vanessa Marcil) and the casino's sexy pit boss Nessa (Marsha Thomason). Vegas is full of hotel rooms and every room has a story, so Danny's going to have a busy time keeping up.
What They Got Right: The show, created by Gary Scott Thompson ("The Fast and the Furious") has gotten impressive access to Sin City, allowing for impressive authenticity. Thompson has also rounded up television's most attractive young casts and put the ever-commanding Caan in the middle of things. The location and the stars make "Las Vegas" compulsively watchable, but the stories will have to be its foundation and for the pilot, at least, the dialogue is witty, the characters appealing and the pace speedy.
What's Oh, So Wrong: Duhamel, a soap opera favorite from "All My Children," is a fairly bland leading man, but it may be worked into the character, making him a normal man surrounded by a city of eccentricity. Finding plotlines each week that weave together the beautiful women, Caan, Duhamel and James Lesure's savvy valet may prove difficult.
Recommended If You ...: Really like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" but wish all those nice people would stop turning up dead.
