His eyes really are that blue. At one point, they might have even been too blue.

"At one point in the beginning, before the pilot, (the producers) were looking at using contacts because they thought maybe my eyes were too blue and they wanted a different color blue, which is now funny," Olejnik said in an interview with CTV, the network that originally produced the show in Canada.

It's "funny" because his eyes, which have been called "pretty," "piercing" and "mesmerizing" by smitten fans online, have become the actor's signature. "Heck, I know people who watch 'The Listener' specifically for Olejnik's eyes," said Sun Media newspaper columnist Bill Harris.

Sadly, though, even those piercing eyes couldn't save the show from cancelation. It was a modest hit in Canada but struggled to find a home on U.S. TV. It originally aired on NBC in the U.S. but was pulled after a couple of seasons. Ion TV picked it up for its fifth, and as it turned out final, season.

As is so often the case when shows are canceled, fans didn't get any kind of final resolution with the series finale, which was made before the cancelation came.

"I wish we could go back and provide a little more closure now, knowing that it's the final one, but we didn't know going into it," Olejnik told TheTVJunkies.com. "We thought, it's either the finale or we're going to shoot again in six months and pick up from here."

The high-concept procedural crime drama starred Olejnik as a telepathic paramedic (as weird as that sounds, it made sense on the show) who helped police solve crimes in Toronto.

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