Howdy people! How are we on this fine Sunday?
Not much in the way of Bionic news at the moment, but I found this little snippet from Maureen Ryan over at Metromix. She seems impressed by the premise of BW, which makes me happy as I’ve been championing the concept of the show for some time now.
Maybe NBC is on to something.
A new NBC drama, “Bionic Woman,” isn’t so new — it’s a remake of the ’70s series that starred Lindsay Wagner.
And maybe what’s given that show staying power — besides the prospect of seeing an attractive woman run really fast — is the idea behind the series: What would happen if you re-engineered a person to take advantage of the best available technology? What if you assembled the ideal human by putting together the best available body parts? Would the result be “Frankenstein” or an unstoppable fighting machine?
Several fall shows have great ideas behind them — but not even “Bionic Woman” has the complete package. What if we put the best of several promising fall shows together? Would it result in the perfect program or a horrible botch? Hey, our results can’t be any worse than the headache-inducing hybrids that the networks often come up with.
Read the rest of the article, which goes on to speak about ‘Reaper’ and ‘Daisies’, if you really want.
