As reported by Gary in the comments, an impressive 2.4 million British viewers tuned in to watch the premiere episode of Bionic Woman last week – a record for the channel (ITV2). The controller of ITV2 commented:

 ”Bionic Woman is a fantastic show and we are very excited that an audience of over two million viewers, our best ever audience, tuned in for Tuesday night’s show.”

I haven’t got the viewing figures for last nights “Paradise Lost” episode, but in the States the viewing figures slumped from this episode onwards – will it be the same for the UK?

If you watched last nights episode, you can see my original episode review here and my “Bionic Investigations” here

Michelle Ryan has been speaking to the UK media about Bionic Woman, which begins on ITV2 on 11th March. She agrees with many of us fans who still believe that “the show had so much potential”.

It must be an odd situation for Ryan, who has to promote the show launch in the UK, whilst knowing that it probably wont see the light of day again in the States. Her “big break” left in tatters, some have argued that she’s now left relying on the country she left this time last year to see something positive in BW that America (and online viewers have missed). 
However, she is all too aware that despite having a good premise, the scripting and creative changes are at fault for it’s likely NBC-axing:

“It’s had creative changes; some things didn’t work, but in launching a TV show that’s all part of the process.”

You can bet your bottom dollar that the UK press just love the fact that she’s now back in the UK with her metaphorical tail between her legs. Last year, a few (very) bitter people believed that she was turning her back on the UK by aspiring to be America’s next top star!

Let’s hope BW’s failure wont deter Ryan from future aspirations – it looks like she’s still confident by taking the positives out of her US experience:

“To get six months on air – or even the three that we did – is an achievement. To have a hit show that runs for years… the likelihood is one in a million.”

Ryan also reveals that should a miracle happen and NBC perform a U-turn, she and the rest of the cast will be back on BW in a hot-minute.

Well Ryan, here’s hoping – although it looks like we’ll have to wait until May for a definitive answer.

Michelle Ryanrecently did an interview with the UK’s GMTV. In the interview she denies any relationship with Owen Wilson (glad I didn’t bother blogging about it!) – she hasn’t even met the man, she also talks about the ‘Bionic Woman’, how much she is enjoying it and her excitement that it will be airing in the UK (amongst other things). Have a look:

Did anyone else get the feeling that the show will almost definitely be back if the writers strike ends soon!? Not only did Michelle pretty much infer that it ‘depends on what happens’ regarding the strike, but her vibes were ‘positive’, if you know what I mean? She spoke about the show in the present tense and seemed fairly open in her responses. I think that she may have been told that if the writers strike ends before the New Year, then the show will be back. I mean, why else would NBC be so tight-lipped on the shows future? There’s no reason for them to remain silent UNLESS they were waiting for the length of the strike to become clearer. So there you have it, I think that the series will continue (or be relaunched) IF the strike ends soon. I could be wrong of course.

Thanks to ryansxpress for alerting me to the fact that she had the interview with GMTV and to Oz992 for uploading the interview to Youtube.

Here’s the trailer that has been playing in the UK over the past couple of weeks, in the hope of getting the UK fans in the mood for the January debut of Bionic Woman on ITV2.

I expect that they will air more extensive trailers as we get closer to the UK premiere, as this one is just a teaser more than anything.