Reheated stale Love-Boat-minus-laugh-track fluff. But Joshua Jackson is very nice eye candy and has been gone from TV much too long. He deserves a better vehicle.
Bad writing. The supporting characters are just so G.D. an-noy-ing. The female lead...sorry...was just poor casting.
I choose to believe it's not the writers themselves as much as brain dead ABC executives who ordered the formula.
ABC has a history of hiring execs from the Deadfromtheneckup School. Remember the bunch of Doofi who thought keeping Strahan's exit from Kelly was a good idea?