Of course, it's ALL Greek to me...(you know I had to say it)

Based on the pilot which aired tonight, the new series Greek, about college and specifically sorority/fraternity life, is worth a glance. The sorority sisters are hot ( scenes of Spencer Grammer bending over a pool table in a cleavage-spilling blouse seem likely to wear out a lot of freeze-frame buttons).

I suppose some of the fraternity brothers are cute, too, but I wouldn't know about that kind of thing.

More importantly the actors, including Grammer and Scott Michael Foster as her ex, seem to be having fun with what they're given. So did I, on balance.

And I gotta give the writer credit for throwing a gay frat boy or two into the mix--and then for treating that element almost incidentally. Instead of building a very special "homosexuals are people too!" speech around it.

Of course, that may be coming.

But both of these things are unexpected for a college show-and especially one which airs on ABC Family. Right before the 700 Club, yet. So is the sex, drink and rock 'n' roll prominently featured.

You'll find the network branding of the series is one of the two things that comes up most in the reviews, the other being that Spencer is Kelsey Grammer's daughter.

(Speaking of the reviews, here's one mostly good, one mostly bad.)

Seemingly more in keeping with their network home, the series also has a Christian character-but he shows signs of being better than the predictable "I'll pray for your soul, heathens" one-joke you think you're getting at first.

In one key scene, they actually let him be-prepare yourself for a shock-a moral compass for another. In a way that doesn't condescend, either to him or the heathen.

The show does have it's predictable characters (a caddish, brutish frat boy? You don't say). But the pilot's biggest problem is that the kid (Jacob Zachar) who you get the idea is supposed to be the sympathetic center of the series is easily the least interesting. Maybe it's the Kelly Clarkson in me, but I identified more with the cool sorority sister than her nerdy but hopeful brother.

It also doesn't help that the brother was given one of the least-likely jokes I have ever heard.

I refuse to believe that in the year 2007, a college freshman would respond to being told that a frat boy has known his older sister "in the Biblical sense" with:

"Oh, from church."

I don't care if the kid is Christian, deaf, dumb, and blind, that's just not going to happen.

At least Zachar and Grammer (shown together in the pic above), who plays his sister, do look kinda like siblings-both their faces seem hastily thrown together...