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“Sopranos” writer Jason Cahill has been named the new showrunner of “Bionic Woman.”
Cahill is the third guy named Jason to run the young series’ writers’ room, following Jason Smilovic (“Karen Sisco”) and Jason Katims (“Friday Night Lights”).
Before the Jasons came aboard, writers on the show included Laeta Kalogridis (“Alexander,” “Battle Angel”), who penned the remake’s original pilot, as well as David Eick (“Battlestar Galactica”) and Glen Morgan (“The X-Files”).
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Not terribly impressed with “Bionic Woman’s” pilot, I continue to watch because I know two major Jasons – Katims (“Roswell,” “Friday Night Lights”) and Smilovic (“Karen Sisco,” “Kidnapped”) – are now on the highly rated show’s case.
NBC has loglines. Beware spoilers; I found the 10/17 entry of particular interest:
10/3: “PARADISE LOST”
LOST INNOCENCE - ISAIAH WASHINGTON GUEST-STARS – After Jaime experiences another devastating loss, she encounters a stranger who befriends her. Later, she discovers the stranger is Antonio Pope (guest star Isaiah Washington), who works for the Berkut Group and the meeting was deliberate. As Jamie struggles to balance her secret new life while trying to maintain some normalcy at home with her sister, Becca (Lucy Kate Hale), Jaime finds herself in harms way on her first mission. Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, Mark Sheppard and Chris Bowers also star.
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In its timeslot, Wednesday night’s premiere of NBC’s “Bionic Woman” clobbered the premiere of ABC’s “Private Practice,” the season premiere of “Criminal Minds” and new episodes of “Kitchen Nightmares” and “Gossip Girl.”
It garnered NBC’s highest ratings for a Wednesday-night premiere since “The West Wing” eight years ago.
Read all of TV Week’s story on the matter here.
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The girl who plays Sarah Corvus and Kara Thrace spoke for about 22 minutes to KUFO-FM’s “Cort and Fatboy” Wednesday night and said she’ll be doing a lot more “Bionic Woman” this season.
Katee “Baby Spank” Sackhoff is currently shooting her fifth episode of the NBC show even as she’s shooting “Battlestar Galactica” 4.11 (an episode, she tells the duo, viewers are not likely to see until 2009).
“Galactica” and “Bionic” apparently shoot right next to each other in Vancouver. “Bionic” currently has a 13-episode order that could grow to a full season if ratings warrant.
Hopefully they will. Sackhoff says she’ll appear in seven episodes of “Bionic” this year, and is contracted to become a series regular if NBC picks the show up for a second season.
She is also asked (repeatedly) about being so much more popular among critics and viewers than the brunette bionic woman. Here’s how Fatboy plugs her appearance:
It appears previous interviews with us have gotten her in enough trouble with NBC/Universal that she now necessitates a publicist to make sure she doesn't slip up and explode the heads of her higher ups. And even with that publicist, she lets a couple interesting things go in regards to both Battlestar AND Bionic Woman
HEAR: Katee give a non-committal "hmm" as a non-answer to the prospect of Sarah and Jaime becoming 2007's Buffy and Faith should Season 2 get greenlit.
LISTEN: As Katee weighs in on the revelation of the Final Fifth and why he's maybe not the best choice they could have come up with
WONDER: As Katee seems to call the identity of Starbuck herself into question for Season 4, and hints at Adama angst leading to multiple attempts at asswhipping.
Plus she just generally is her cute adorable self as she admits she totally ripped off Tricia Helfer for a fat paycheck.
Listen to the whole 22-minute interview here.
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It’s a sci-fi actioner about a hot bartender whose government scientist boyfriend gives her an artificial eye, an artificial ear, an artificial arm and two artificial legs following a grisly automotive mishap.
Though Miguel Ferrer plays the bigwig whose secret agency makes Jaime Sommers better, stronger and faster, the new “Bionic Woman” pilot is no “RoboCop.”
And it doesn’t contain a lot we haven’t seen before, in “RoboCop,” in “Terminator,” in “Spider-Man,” in “X-Men,” in the original “Bionic Woman,” in “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” in “Angel,” in “Dark Angel,” and so on and so forth.
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The official premieres of NBC’s four new fall dramas are still at least 11 days away, but the network is determined you see them early.
We’ve known for a while that Blockbuster has been renting the pilots of “Bionic Woman,” “Chuck,” “Journeyman” and “Life” to its customers.
I got an email late Wednesday telling me that cable systems carrying something called HD Showcase On Demand are also making the pilots available. (I get On Demand and HD via Time Warner here in Studio City, Calif., but my customer care rep just assured me that I don’t get HD On Demand in my area for at least another seven months.)
Finally, those who crave instant gratification (but don’t want to risk NBC Universal and the MPAA suing them - or their parents – for hundreds of thousands of dollars over bittorrent copyright infringement), can currently also rent the pilots via Unbox, which apparently works with both computers and TiVo. Click on the photos to watch. All are FREE!
I recommend starting with “Chuck,” which is a sci-fi comedy actioner created by “O.C.” mastermind Josh Schwartz. It co-stars “Full Metal Jacket”/”Firefly” vet Adam Baldwin as an angry government goon.
For those content to wait, the NBC premiere dates:
Chuck: Sept. 24
Journeyman: Sept. 24
Bionic Woman: Sept. 26
Life: Sept. 26
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Writer-producer Jason Katims, who created the TV version of “Roswell” and currently serves as showrunner on NBC’s “Friday Night Lights,” will serve as a “consultant” on the network’s “Bionic Woman,” according to a TV Guide report by Michael Ausiello.
Katims, who last year wrote and produced Fox’s short-lived “Wedding Bells” as he oversaw “FNL,” will now split his time between “FNL” and “Bionic,” according to Ausiello.
Find all of Ausiello’s exclusive here.
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The tumult continues over at NBC’s “Bionic Woman”!
Glen Morgan, who wrote for “The X-Files” and “Millennium” before he found big-screen success with “Final Destination,” has left NBC’s “Bionic Woman.” Creative differences are cited.
“Battlestar Galactica” honcho David Eick remains showrunner on the project. Acclaimed writer Jason Smilovic (“Karen Sisco,” “Kidnapped”) remains also.
“Bionic” premieres on NBC Sept. 26.
Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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