Consider: A woman inherited psychic abilities from her mother, including the ability to speak to the dead, and after initially looking on this as a curse, she’s come to accept it as a gift that gives her life purpose. She’s happily married to a man who didn’t know about her abilities when they met, but who has grudgingly come to accept them as real, despite his own rationalist views. She uses her psychic powers to solve mysteries, trying to put things right for the spirits she communicates with. What TV show does this describe?

There are, of course, two correct answers: Medium and Ghost Whisperer.

It used to be that Medium was on NBC on Mondays, and Ghost Whisperer was on CBS on Fridays, and it looked…