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Push, Nevada.
population 10 263
elevation: 1023

- "Can you say Nevada Boomtown? Push can! For 16 years in a row, the Central Nevada Business Roundtable has announced that Push residents enjoy the highest per-capita wealth in the region. And there are no state income taxes!"

-Last night, for the seventeenth year in a row, Mother Lode Award, an accolade presented annually to the town in central Nevada whose citizens have the greatest per-capita income.

-The CNBR estimates that the median Push citizen earned $48,508 last year. The town that was ranked second on the CNBR's list had a median per-capita income of $26,505. Polls taken by CNBR found that nearly 97% of Push citizens are solidly middle class, earning between $52,000 and $43,000. About a tenth of the town's 10,623 citizens work for the Versailles Casino. Most other locals either own a small business or work for one. Unemployment is about 2%.

+CNBR also noted that, despite the economic slowdown across the United States, Push's growth shows no signs of lagging. In fact, despite the nation's volatile economic expansions and recessions over the last 20 years, CNBR estimates that Push's economy simply enjoyed steady growth of about 3.5%

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The story (taken from the official push Nevada site).

Mild-mannered IRS agent Jim Prufrock (Derek Cecil) travels to a remote desert town in search of missing money and stumbles on a place where mystery, danger and peculiar characters lurk around every off-kilter corner. Everyone has a secret in Push, Nevada, but no one is talking, unless they're telling Jim to get out of town - fast. Every word, every sign, every gesture could hold a clue to solving the riddle of this tiny Nevada town.

The mystery begins when a fax from the Versailles Casino in Push is sent by accident (perhaps) to Jim, alerting him to a sizable accounting error - and an embezzlement scheme involving a fortune in cash. Casino honcho Silas Bodnick refuses to talk about the missing money, so Jim's investigation leads him to Push, where nothing is as it seems. Push is a town where neighborhood couples indulge in synchronized romance each night at 9:15; where the only casino, the Versailles, pays out the biggest jackpots in the state; and where the lonely look for companionship at "Sloman's," a slow-dance bar.

It's there that Jim meets Mary (Scarlett Chorvat), a beautiful and enigmatic woman who tells him that the mystery of Push is, "like all the best secrets, not quick in the telling," and warns him to go home before he gets hurt. A determined man, Jim plans to find out what mystery lies behind Push, no matter what the risk. All along the way, a shadowy team of high-tech operatives monitors his every encounter with the town's denizens

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The game

TIme: Show opens on a Tuesday then airs in its regular spot Thursdays with the debut repeating at 8 p.m.
Your objective: to find what happened to the money and identify it's location.

Quoted by another message board:

"Each episode has new puzzles to follow and solve, along with a dazzling array of guest stars. In a next-generation twist on reality television, if one viewer can put the evidence together at the end of a multi-episode arc, they'll win the missing money that everyone is after."

Not a very easy task, won't it

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The creators

Jim Prufrock ....... Derek Cecil
Mary ............... Scarlett Chorvat
Silas Bodnick ...... Jon Polito
Mr. Smooth ......... Armand Assante
Martha ............. Conchata Ferrell
Job ................ Josh Todd
Ira ................ Gray Grossman

With: Andy Kriess, Monty Bane, Melora Walters, Tom Towles, Peggy Jo Jacobs, Ryan Cutrona, Grant Thompson, Kristen Lui, Lynn Collins, Cheryl Francis, Corinne Reilly, Willie Gault, Daniel Serafini-Sauli.

Filmed in and around Santa Clarita, Calif., by LivePlanet in association with Touchstone Television. Executive producers, Ben Affleck, Chris Moore, Matt Damon, Sean Bailey; co-executive producer, James Parriott; producers, Dwayne Shattuck, Sean Whitesell; co-producer, Tom Garrigus; associate producer, Bob Rajewski; writers, Affleck, Bailey; camera, Roy Wagner; production designer, Ed McAvoy; art director, Alan Muraoka; editors, Elena Maganini, Jonathan Posell; casting, Ulrick/Dawson/Kritzer.