Unlike the CW's Reaper, where demons run amok in modern day life on earth, we now have ancient Greek gods living among us mortals in the CW's latest entry - Valentine. No longer is Mount Olympus a place of myth and fable, hidden in the clouds above ... nooo, it's real and resides in the hills of Hollywood. The Valentine family watches over our day-to-day love lives, intervening whenever necessary. First, there is Grace - Aphrodite - is the mother of the family, firmly holding onto the power of love. Her son, Danny - Eros - is a little more hardcore, using a magical gun instead of a bow an arrow, these days. Leo - Hercules - is the big ole bouncer of the group. And finally, there is the young (actually, she is older than the rest), quirky Phoebe handling the Oracle of Delphi.

Problem these days is mankind no longer look to the gods to help with their hopes, dreams and desires. And the gods and goddesses feel their powers slipping away from them. Time to enlist a little help from a mortal, and who better than a romance novelist, Kate Providence. Kate is a hopeful, and lately a bit hopeless, romantic deep inside her heart. So, she makes a perfect candidate to help the ancient ones deal with the fast love lives of modern day society.

There are a few extra bumps in the road for the love squad ... the god of war, papa Ari Valentine - Ares - wants to recruit his son to work for the dark side. And Grace has begun having an affair with her former lover and house handyman, uncle Ray, while hubby's been away.

• Grace Valentine, Aphrodite - Jaime Murray (Lila from last season's Dexter, Demons, Keen Eddie, and next year's Possessions and The Rapture)
• Danny Valentine, Eros - Kristoffer Polaha (Tru Calling, Birds of Prey, Roswell)
• Leo Francisci, Hercules - Robert Baker (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and the upcoming film, Lure)
• Phoebe Valentine, Goddess of the Oracle of Delphi - Autumn Reeser (Lost Boys: The Tribe, Nature of the Beast, Ghost Whisperer, Birds of Prey, Star Trek: Voyager and also in next year's Possessions)
• Kate Providence, mortal romance writer - Christine Lakin (Dark Mirror, Blue Demon, Seven Days, Big Monster on Campus, Tim Burton's Lost in Oz, 3rd rock from the Sun, and look for her in the upcoming films, Red Canyon, Super Capers and next year's, Race to Witch Mountain)
• Ari Valentine, Ares - Greg Ellis (master of video game voices - so many I could not list here, Knight Rider, Beowulf, Lieutenant Groves Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Brimstone, The X-Files, and the highly anticipated new Star Trek film)
• Ray Howard, Hephaestus - Patrick Fabian (Joan of Arcadia, Freaky Links, Timecop, Xena: Warrior Princess, Millennium, Star Trek: Voyager, and next year's Pig)

If you love Reaper like I do, check out this new fantasy romance comedy on the CW on Sunday nights, Valentine:

http://cwtv.com/shows/valentine/