by Cathy Miller

Created on: February 22, 2009

As a woman, I tend to lean towards the male characters of any television show I watch. While I enjoy watching women with moxy such as Buffy Summers and Willow Rosenberg of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," or Ziva David and Abby Sciuto of "NCIS," the thing that draws my attention to any television show is the "eye candy" I find on them. While that is not the only reason I watch the television shows I do, or the reason I love the characters, it makes me start watching the show so that I begin to fall in love with the characters themselves.

The writing and acting found on each and every one of these shows is the main reason I am drawn to them. The characters are not memorable, no matter how good looking the actors portraying them are, if they aren't brought to life through great writing and wonderful acting. The character also has to be multi-dimensional - someone that will make you laugh one minute and cry the next. With great writers behind them, these actors have managed to take the characters they portray, add a little of themselves and give you a person that you are interested in. Someone that makes you want to tune in each and every week to see what is happening to them and being a part of their lives for at least on hour. That being said, here are my top 10 television character picks.

Jeremy Bolt of "Here Come the Brides"

Okay, now I am telling my age. Even though I was only 9 years old when Bobby Sherman hit the television screens as Jeremy Bolt, I immediately developed a major crush on him. Even today, I watch the old DVD's of this show and wonder how women could not instantly fall in love with this character.

Jeremy Bolt was the youngest brother in the logging family of this show. They were three young men who had lost their parents and worked hard each and every week to keep their business going and to make sure that they did not lose their legacy - Bridal Veil Mountain to the sneaky Aaron Stempel.

In the first season, these three brothers made a deal with Aaron Stempel. They promised to bring 100 eligible brides to Seattle and keep them there for at least one year. Not an easy feat, since Seattle, at this time, was an underdeveloped town with no doctors, hospitals or any conveniences of city living. While Jason and Joshua, the two older brothers, were ready to lie about the conditions of Seattle and make it into something it was not in order to get the women to sign on, Jeremy refused to be a part of their plot. He wanted them to be honest upfront, making

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