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The Listener (2009)

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Genre
science fiction television series
Country
Canada
Length
5 seasons, 65 episodes
Rated
TV-14
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 118 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A paramedic named Toby Logan uses his telepathic ability to read people's thoughts. He helps police solve cases by sensing what victims and criminals are thinking and seeing.

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What happens

The Listener is a Canadian fantasy drama television series created by Michael Amo. The series stars Craig Olejnik as Toby Logan, a paramedic with telepathic powers who finds himself consulting with law enforcement to make a change in the world by helping others while listening to the thoughts of victims and criminals, and seeing images that they saw. The series was broadcast in Canada on CTV and was produced by Shaftesbury Films, in conjunction with CTV and Fox International Channels. The series premiered on CTV on March 3, 2009. CTV renewed the series for four more seasons, each consisting of 13 episodes, premiering February 8, 2011, May 30, 2012, May 29, 2013, and May 26, 2014. In August 2014, CTV announced that they had canceled the show after five seasons. The series finale aired on August 18, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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