Fall Preview Television
‘Reaper,’ 9/25: Remember those zippy, funny, butt-kicking fantasy shows that used to air on the old WB network, like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Charmed”? This is one of those shows, so “Buffy” fanatics, set your TiVos now. On his 21st birthday, a listless electronics-store drone named Sam (Bret Harrison) learns that his parents—oops—sold his soul to the Devil way back before he was born. Now Lucifer (Ray Wise, who played Laura Palmer’s killer dad on “Twin Peaks”) is here to collect, and he wants Sam to take on a second job as a kind of purgatorial bounty hunter: Sam’s task is to hunt down escapees from hell....