Article: When God calls on TV, young women answer.(The Dallas Morning News)

Byline: Manuel Mendoza

Joan Girardi is a fairly normal teenager until she begins receiving visits from God. Tru Davies works the overnight shift at the city morgue, where the dead suddenly start speaking up. Jaye Tyler, a souvenir shop clerk, hears the knickknacks talking to her.

Young women hearing voices from the beyond populate a number of new TV series. In a season when the broadcast networks are largely sticking to established formulas _ police procedurals, broad comedies _ spirituality is emerging as a fresh theme, and it's usually female-driven.

Each heroine is an underachiever reluctantly thrust into the role.

"Teenage girls in ...

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