MISS MATCHLiving TVWednesdays, 10pmNeil Rose

On the basis that you should be able to sum up television shows in a sentence or two, it is no surprise that 'Miss Match' made it to our screens.

'Well it goes like this,' one presumes the pitch began.

'There's this gorgeous blonde divorce lawyer, but she's also a hopeless romantic and so on the side she's a match maker.'

'I like it,' said the TV executive approvingly, no doubt puffing on a large cigar.

'And here's the kicker.

While she helps other people fall in love, she can't find love herself.'

'Brilliant - I never saw that coming,' exclaimed the executive, and so 'Miss Match' was born.

Currently being shown on cable but likely to reach terrestrial channels looking for the next big legal thing after 'Ally McBeal', 'Miss Match' is more misfire than anything else.

Based on a true story, it looks good, and by its nature manages to put lots of pretty faces from both sexes on screen, but there seems no more depth to it than the two-sentence summary.

What makes this especially disappointing is that Darren Star, the creator of 'Sex and The City', is behind 'Miss Match', but it lacks all of that show's humour, cynicism and refusal to take the easy option.

One-time Batgirl Alicia Silverstone is Kate Fox, a junior lawyer working at her divorced father's family law practice in an effort to get closer to him and, it would seem, to get through a mind-boggling number of outfits during each show.

The father, played by Ryan O'Neal, is a tough and cynical attorney, who advises potential clients to consult his main competitors before retaining him - not out of fairness and decency but so that they will be conflicted out of representing the spouse.

To him, the whole match-making thing that Kate falls into by chance is pointless, but by the end of the second episode, he has melted and seen that it could be a good thing - and bring in clients in the long run.

And that really is that.

The match making - ultimately successful in most cases, of course, with the help of her bartender friend Victoria - is interspersed with bits of Kate actually being a lawyer, and turning what is cast as normal confrontational divorce law practice on its head by managing to bring peace and harmony to acrimonious disputes.

But on the basis of the first two episodes, it will be hard to maintain interest if this is all there is to 'Miss Match'.

There may be more depth in time, but that requires patience many viewers might find hard to muster.