USA keeps hitting them out of the field with great drama/sci-fi shows. The 4400 looked like it would be just another cheesy alien story, but instead turned out to be really intriguing and multifaceted.
4,400 people who were previously abducted by aliens are suddenly returned all at once. And it turns out it wasn't aliens, it was people from Earth-- in the future. They not only took people, they changed some of them to have special powers (psychic as well as physicial) as part of a mysterious plan to change the future (their present).
Some of the powers were exposed right at the beginning. One guy can heal other's diseases. A little girl can see the future. Others don't appear until later. Some don't seem to have any powers, but time will tell.
There are also several forces at work, other than the future people. The government is trying to make sense of it all, struggling with how much they should interfere with the 4400's lives. And some of the returnee's have formed an organization which is half cult, half sanctuary from the outside world's prejudices (like X-Men).
But these aren't all young attractive superheroes. They're "real" people, of all ages. That's part of what makes this so interesting. Some want to use their powers for good, some for personal gain. Some just want to live normally.
The 4400 is a good show for those are addicted to the "what's going to happen next" type story that leaves you hanging at the end of each episode.
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