Hart of Dixie

"Hart of Dixie" is a great new show on The CW television network. It is a fish out of water story that is very entertaining. The show stars Rachel Bilson, famous for her role on the hit show "The OC," as Dr. Zoe Hart. When the series premieres, Zoe has just finished a four-year residency in New York City after graduating from medical school at the top of her class. She dreams of becoming a heart surgeon like her famous father.

She fails to get the cardiothoracic fellowship she was aiming for and is forced to take a job offer at a small medical practice in the tiny Southern town of Bluebell, Alabama. When she arrives in Bluebell, she learns that the man who gave her the job offer, Dr. Harley Wilkes, has died. Not only that, but she also discovers to her astonishment that Dr. Wilkes was her biological father and he has left her his share of the Bluebell medical practice in his will.

Zoe decides to stay in Bluebell and work at the practice, so that she can learn more about this biological father she never knew she had. The cast for this show is terrific. Bilson in the starring role is very winning and manages to light up the screen in all of her scenes. A majority of the charm of the show is watching her character struggle to understand this Southern environment with her New York City background.

The great actor Tim Matheson stars as Dr. Brick Breeland, the owner of the other half of the Bluebell practice that Zoe receives half of in her biological father's will. Dr. Breeland often gets into conflicts with Zoe on many different topics, including the ways they practice medicine and her big city manners.

Scott Porter plays George Tucker, who is the romantic interest for Zoe in "Hart of Dixie." He is a lawyer who has a fianc