The British dramatic series Shades would seem to have been a crossbreed between the German theatrical feature Wings of Desire and the American TVer Touched By an Angel. Dervla Kirwan and Stephen Tompkinson were respectively starred as Maeve and Mark, a pair of earthbound ghosts who wandered the streets of London looking for lost souls to save or redeem. The catch was that the two spirits could be seen and heard only by those people who did not know them when they were alive. Six 50-minute episodes of Shades were telecast by BBC1 in 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi