New Favorite = Love Monkey

This new series is about four male friends at different stages of life and love as told through the eyes of a single, 30-something record executive (played by Tom Cavanagh of Ed-fame). It’s based on Kyle Smith’s best-selling novel of the same name and explores the tumultuous and highly amusing waters of working and dating in New York City.

Tom Farrell (Cavanagh’s character) seems to have it all until he gets fired from his job and is dumped by his girlfriend, all in the same day. Fortunately, Tom's friends help him keep his life in motion: Mike (Jason Priestley of 90210), his buddy who happens to be married to Tom’s pregnant sister, Karen (Katherine LaNasa of Miss Match); Shooter (Larenz Tate of Crash), his street-wise friend with money; Jake (Christopher Wiehl of Broken Hearts Club), a handsome former baseball player turned sports writer (who is suspected by yours truly of being of the homosexual flavor); and Bran (Judy Greer of 13 Going On 30), his platonic girlfriend who always tells it to him straight. With his peeps’ help and support, Tom finds a new record company to call home and a new woman, Julia Hixon (Ivana Milicevic of Love Actually), to fixate on.

Tom is a music snob who doesn’t care about finding the next Ashlee Simpson; he’s more interested in giving back to the world by finding the next Bob Dylan. He believes that great music always finds its following, and he finds great music in a young artist named Wayne (played by Teddy Geiger, a real-life artist).

Teddy Geiger is only 17 and already has a first album, Underage Thinking (Columbia Records), which debuted in February 2005. A song-writing prodigy, Geiger is a self-taught musician who wrote and arranged complete original compositions on guitar and piano by age eight. His raspy voice is reminiscent of artists such as John Mayer, Chris Martin and Dashboard Confessional.

Check it out Tuesdays on CBS at 10pm ET/PT