October 10, 2007
Bionic Woman "Sisterhood" kicks off with Jae teaching Jamie that she is capable of changing the programming within her, with practice. Transition to lunch with Becca, interrupted with a call to intercept a nearby terrorist. Jamie sends Becca off with a credit card so she can confront Mr. Badguy. She knocks him out in his car to await backup. The life of a Bionic Woman is never dull.
October 10, 2007
Bionic Woman “Sisterhood” premieres tonight, theme heavy title and all. The episode seems to really portray a multi-layered approach to the character treatment, morphing the concept of sisterhood across the lines of biology and into the congruous area of captive similarity that exists between Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan) and Sarah Corvus (Katee Sackhoff). After a second episode that left some early pundits scratching their heads, a dense character piece could be the shot in the arm the series needs as its production team scrambles to find an identity. Beware, this article contains clips that reveal major plot details from tonight's episode.
October 3, 2007
Bionic Woman's pilot was a landmark for NBC's opening week, but will the second episode live up? The second episode opens with Jamie (Michelle Ryan) at Will's funeral. There seems to be continuity flaw after continuity flaw here. Didn't Jamie give a speech on doing "this, whatever this is," but on her terms? When she runs into Jonas she has either had a change of heart, or the writers forgot that minor detail.
September 29, 2007
The hype surrounding NBC's re-imagined series, Bionic Woman, has done well for the show, as its premiere beat tough competition in the forms of Private Practice, Criminal Minds, Kitchen Nightmares and Gossip Girl.
Bionic Woman earned a 5.5 rating among adults 18-49, beating the premiere of the new ABC medical drama, which earned a 5.1. So far, Bionic Woman is the highest-rated new series to debut this fall, and the highest-rated Wednesday-night series premiere for the Peacock since The West Wing debuted in 1999. Additionally, the NBC series won the 9-10pm timeslot despite having a weaker lead-in than Private Practice.
September 28, 2007
Isaiah Washington will be making his return to television in next week's episode of Bionic Woman, “Paradise Lost.” The actor will play an operative assigned to watch over and mentor Bionic Woman Jamie Sommers as she begins her career with the top secret agency that converted her without her consent. Some clips of Isaiah's performance have been released by NBC, and have them below.
September 26, 2007
It seems that Battlestar Galactica has started a new trend: revamping the camp. Bionic Woman is the latest vestige of the 70s to be repainted in darker, more serious tones, and what better person to lead the project than BSG's reimaginer extraordinaire, David Eick?
September 26, 2007
Tonight, one of the fall's most highly anticipated shows, NBC's Bionic Woman, debuts. Playing the part of the Bionic Woman's younger sister, Becca Sommers, is Lucy Hale. The part was originally given to Mae Whitman but producers decided to recast and revamp the character before the show premiered. Hale first made her television debut at the age of nine of the show, American Juniors, and made it to the final five. Since then, she has appeared in shows such as Drake and Josh, The OC, and How I Met Your Mother. Her big break came when she was cast on Bionic Woman and today, she took time to talk to BuddyTV about tonight's premiere episode.
September 19, 2007
NBC's Bionic Woman has yet to premiere, but it has already undergone major script changes and behind-the-scenes shakeups, with the most recent being the departure of executive producer, Glen Morgan.
Morgan, known for his work on the hit sci-fi series The X-Files, has left the show due to creative differences. He and the show's other executive producers, David Eick and Jason Smilovic, had conflicting ideas for the re-imagined series.