Premiere Date and Time: Wednesday, September 26, 9pm
Network: NBC
Time Slot Competition:
Private Practice,
Criminal Minds,
Kitchen Nightmares,
Gossip Girl
Cast:
Michelle Ryan,
Chris Bowers,
Miguel Ferrer,
Katee Sackhoff,
Molly Price,
Will Yun Lee,
Lucy Hale
Your Take
shychef30 said:
I can't wait for it to come on. I grow up watch the six million dollar man and the bionic woman. I know tha...
The latest cult favorite to get the reimagining treatment is NBC's
Bionic Woman. In the updated version, Jamie Sommers is played by British actress
Michelle Ryan (
Eastenders). From
Battlestar Galactica's veteran camp series remaker David Eick, Jamie Sommers is no longer a professional tennis player mangled in a horrific sky diving accident, she is a washed out college student, attending classes at day and tending bar at night between playing surrogate mother to her rebellious sister while also dating a brainiac bio-ethicist.
When Jamie and her boyfriend are nearly killed in a car accident, Jamie finds herself transported to a top secret medical facility where, as it turns out, her boyfriend is the chief physician. The specialty of the underground shop, as you probably have guessed, is the replacement of human body parts with robotic equivalents. Only this program, funded by a black ops segment of the defense industry, isn't meant for healing shattered girlfriends. It's meant for super soldiers.
While Jamie's boyfriend argues against her termination, Jamie gradually comes to grips with what has happened to her. A second lease on life that she did not ask for, with strings attached that she has no intentions of agreeing with. When her boyfriend helps her escape back into the safety of civilization, she makes a feeble attempt to restart her life, only to find herself being stalked by forces that have been ostracized by the Bionics program, including the first experimental
Bionic Woman played by
Katee Sackhoff.
After getting a feel for what her new enhancements are capable of, Jamie decides to go along with the project, but on her own terms. What awaits her in the terms of action, spy adventures, and bionic fistfights is anybody's guess, but the existence of seditious forces suggests a more serialized approach than
Bionic Woman's campy predecessor.
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