Despite his failure with Bionic Woman, NBC have kept faith in David Eick by giving him a new deal which will allow him to work on the BSG prequel “Caprica” and other projects for the production arm of the network. Syfy Portal have the following:

Eick will have an exclusive television contract with Universal Media Studios. Not only will that give him more opportunity to work on the “Battlestar Galactica” prequel “Caprica,” but it also will allow him to create and develop other products.

Eick also will take on an adventure series known as “AKA” as well as “Hart to Hart.” Kerry Ehrins, most recently of “Friday Night Lights” is the writer behind “AKA” while Dario Scardapane will be attached to “Hart to Hart” as a writer.

On top of that, Eick also will be asked to do yet another adaptation of an existing property under the control of NBCU, although the title of that property has yet to be released since the studio is still working on finalizing the rights to recreate it.

It’s a shame that he didn’t succeed with BW, but it’s clear that the guy is talented, and NBC can certainly see that otherwise they wouldn’t invest in him so heavily. Although that said, sometimes faith be blind. At least Eick now has the time to craft projects and assemble a quality team around him. He’ll also learn from the mistakes that were made with BW. So whilst his reputation has been damaged slightly, I’ll still look on with interest at what he comes up with next.

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