Title: Bionic Woman
Description: Katie Sackoff
Powdered Water - June 24, 2007 05:17 PM (GMT)
:thumbsup: Entertainment Weekly is reporting That Katie Sackoff otherwise known as Starbuck is set to be a recurring role on the new bionic woman rehash. :drool: Well at least now I have a reason to watch once in awhile i suppose. I still think this is blasphemy my one and only growing up was lindsay wagner.But hey BSG turned out ok. Right? :thumbsup:
prophecy girl - July 21, 2007 05:02 PM (GMT)
Mark Sheppard joins cast of Bionic Woman as a regular (according whedonesque)
Psycho Jack - August 7, 2007 10:15 AM (GMT)
I watched the pilot for this last night and I have to say, I'm not overly impressed. In fact, I'm not impressed at all. So much so, that half way through I started browsing the interweb looking for a holiday. :whistling:
The best thing about the whole thing was Katie's bits, which were, in all fairness, minimal. I doubt I'll be getting this when the season kicks off properly. If I hear good reviews then I might...
Anyone else seen?
goth willow fan - August 7, 2007 10:46 AM (GMT)
I watched it. I thought it was fairly watchable, Katee Sackhoff was the best thing in it.
I thought it had potential.
Crichton Kicks - August 8, 2007 01:03 AM (GMT)
Agree with Paul. Whilst I didn't think it was particularly brilliant, it was certainly passable. Bear in mind that this was only the pilot. Most decent shows didn't have great pilots.
Definitely worth catching the first few episodes of the series proper at least Moe.
Psycho Jack - August 10, 2007 02:26 PM (GMT)
Hmmm... maybe, I'll see.
In all fairness, I'm not up-to-date with the upfront this year as I have been in the past years due to extreme lack of time (I’m trying to write up my thesis at the moment, you see) so I have no idea what's going to be good.
I'll probably have to see what you all get and recommend... :whistling:
I’m sure I read somewhere that the pilot which is going to air is going to be somewhat different… so maybe it might get better.
Powdered Water - September 16, 2007 05:02 PM (GMT)
Katie Sackoff will play a villain named Sarah Corvus....the original bionic woman but disabled by SWAT agents after she killed a team of bionic scientists....
You can watch the trailer
here...This actually is looking like it is shaping up nicely. I like the cast.
TV Yank - September 27, 2007 03:03 PM (GMT)
THE BIONIC WOMAN has been heavily promoted. They should've put the money in a decent script. This felt more like soap opera as it tried to develop characters and conflicts a mile deep. As bad the the original show was, it didn't waste time. The final fight scene felt like a scene from BUFFY...without the clever dialog.
At least I can scratch this show off my "to watch" list.
TV Yank - September 28, 2007 02:17 AM (GMT)
The BIONIC WOMAN premiere had healthy numbers in the overnites (9.3/14). It was edged out of the top spot by the premiere of PRIVATE PRACTICE (the GREY'S ANATOMY spinoff). And it, in turn edged out the season premiere of CRIMINAL MINDS.
Keep in mind that the numbers for the premiere reflect viewers trying out a new series.
Also keep in mind that PRIVATE PRACTICE's lead-in was the hugely successful DANCING WITH THE STARS. BIONIC had a moderately good lead-in (a popular game show called DEAL OR NO DEAL). While CRIMINAL MINDS had a terrible lead-in (a stupid reality show where kids setup a society in a deserted town).
prophecy girl - September 28, 2007 06:11 PM (GMT)
TV Yank - September 28, 2007 06:18 PM (GMT)
I was surprised to hear a fragment of an interview with Ryan and hear an English accent. I may have heard before that she was a Brit but evidently I had forgotten. She doesn't give it away in her performance. Altho I doubt that there's really an American look and a British look but I can't help thinking she looks more American to me.
Psycho Jack - October 10, 2007 11:45 AM (GMT)
Okay, so I watched the second episode and I'm still not convinced... I did start tidying up my room as I was watching it, which is not a good sign.
Might give it another episode before I decide.
laughitupfuzzball - October 11, 2007 06:07 PM (GMT)
Crichton Kicks - October 11, 2007 06:24 PM (GMT)
Must admit, I haven't watched the second episode yet.
Psycho Jack - October 15, 2007 01:26 PM (GMT)
Okay, so I guess the third episode somewhat redeemed the show... Actually, scrap that, Katee Sackhoff redeemed the show. She is single-handedly carrying the show as far as I'm concerned.
I will watch the next episode but just to see Katee. The show as a whole has done nothing to keep me gripped and the more it goes on, the more I'm not convinced with Ryan's casting.
Powdered Water - October 18, 2007 03:36 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Psycho Jack @ Oct 15 2007, 03:26 PM) |
Okay, so I guess the third episode somewhat redeemed the show... Actually, scrap that, Katee Sackhoff redeemed the show. She is single-handedly carrying the show as far as I'm concerned.
I will watch the next episode but just to see Katee. The show as a whole has done nothing to keep me gripped and the more it goes on, the more I'm not convinced with Ryan's casting. |
I gotta agree with ya there, I think they made a mistake not having Katee as the star instead of Michelle. The writing so far is not as good as it was on BSG either. I want to keep watching but its slipping away from me. :(
TV Yank - October 18, 2007 07:09 PM (GMT)
From MediaWeek:
NBC’s Bionic Woman continues to lose steam, with a series-low 6.0/10. Particularly negative for Bionic Woman was a loss of 10 percent in the second half hour (6.3/10 to 5.7/ 9). In just three weeks, Bionic Woman has declined by 35 percent in the overnights.
It's a tough timeslot. BIONIC WOMAN came in third after CRIMINAL MINDS and PRIVATE PRACTICE. CM won the overall ratings, but PP may win the 18-49 group when the finals come in.
Crichton Kicks - October 18, 2007 07:17 PM (GMT)
It's in a competitive timeslot., but the dropoff is alarming.
It was never going to be easy, up against Criminal Minds and Private Practice, but unless it bottoms out soon BW isn't long for this world I doubt, although it may get lucky with the looming potential writers' strike. I suspect the networks will be more cautious this year when it comes to cancelling things.
Powdered Water - October 18, 2007 08:43 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (TV Yank @ Oct 18 2007, 09:09 PM) |
From MediaWeek:
NBC’s Bionic Woman continues to lose steam, with a series-low 6.0/10. Particularly negative for Bionic Woman was a loss of 10 percent in the second half hour (6.3/10 to 5.7/ 9). In just three weeks, Bionic Woman has declined by 35 percent in the overnights.
It's a tough timeslot. BIONIC WOMAN came in third after CRIMINAL MINDS and PRIVATE PRACTICE. CM won the overall ratings, but PP may win the 18-49 group when the finals come in. |
True it is a tough time slot, But if it isn't a good show that doesn't help and so far its only so-so to me.
Powdered Water - November 9, 2007 04:27 PM (GMT)
Anyone been watching lately? I just watched this weeks episode yesterday and for the first time this season I really enjoyed the show. Maybe now that all the behind the scenes stuff is working itself out a bit they can actually focus on the show a little more. Seems to have worked this week anyway.
Crichton Kicks - November 9, 2007 07:52 PM (GMT)
Still got some catching up to do myself with BW, but it got absolutely killed in the ratings this week :(
Much more of this, and strike or no strike, its future is looking pretty grim already. A real shame after the highly impressive debut numbers.
TV Yank - November 9, 2007 08:19 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Nov 9 2007, 11:52 AM) |
| A real shame after the highly impressive debut numbers. |
That shows there's an audience for this character. And, it probably testifies to the momentum established by the Lynda Carter version.
What do you think: A little more tongue-in-cheek might have made a difference?
Crichton Kicks - November 9, 2007 11:29 PM (GMT)
^^ I honestly don't know John. To be fair, I've not seen nearly enough of it to really comment yet.
TV Yank - November 9, 2007 11:40 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Nov 9 2007, 03:29 PM) |
| ^^ I honestly don't know John. To be fair, I've not seen nearly enough of it to really comment yet. |
;) I've only seen the first episode, James. But I did get a strong sense of melodrama... or maybe 'soap opera' would be a better term.
Crichton Kicks - November 10, 2007 02:54 PM (GMT)
^^ Well I've only seen the first episode as well, but I can't argue with that assessment. Whilst the pilot episode was competant, it was far from brilliant, which probably goes some way to explaining the alarming dropoff in numbers. The fact that viewers continue to desert the show would lead me to assume that things haven't improved too much.
little pixie - November 10, 2007 04:15 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (TV Yank @ Nov 9 2007, 08:19 PM) |
| QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Nov 9 2007, 11:52 AM) | | A real shame after the highly impressive debut numbers. |
That shows there's an audience for this character. And, it probably testifies to the momentum established by the Lynda Carter version.
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:blink:
Lindsey Wagner ? ;)
TV Yank - November 10, 2007 06:02 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (little pixie @ Nov 10 2007, 08:15 AM) |
| QUOTE (TV Yank @ Nov 9 2007, 08:19 PM) | | QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Nov 9 2007, 11:52 AM) | | A real shame after the highly impressive debut numbers. |
That shows there's an audience for this character. And, it probably testifies to the momentum established by the Lynda Carter version.
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:blink:
Lindsey Wagner ? ;)
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That's what comes of senility, Sarah. :unsure: :huh: :shrug:
I'll probably give it another try during reruns.
little pixie - November 10, 2007 06:07 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (TV Yank @ Nov 10 2007, 06:02 PM) |
| QUOTE (little pixie @ Nov 10 2007, 08:15 AM) | | QUOTE (TV Yank @ Nov 9 2007, 08:19 PM) | | QUOTE (Crichton Kicks @ Nov 9 2007, 11:52 AM) | | A real shame after the highly impressive debut numbers. |
That shows there's an audience for this character. And, it probably testifies to the momentum established by the Lynda Carter version.
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:blink:
Lindsey Wagner ? ;)
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That's what comes of senility, Sarah. :unsure: :huh: :shrug:
I'll probably give it another try during reruns.
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Perhaps you were still thinking of Dr Temperance`s halloween outfit. ;)
Crichton Kicks - November 10, 2007 08:19 PM (GMT)
^^ I can see that I need to catch up with Bones as well! :lol:
TV Yank - November 10, 2007 09:10 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (little pixie @ Nov 10 2007, 10:07 AM) |
| Perhaps you were still thinking of Dr Temperance`s halloween outfit. ;) |
Can't get it out of my mind. :blush:
TV Yank - November 11, 2007 07:02 AM (GMT)
*** SPOILERY ***
Well, the opportunity to see another episode BIONIC WOMAN came sooner than I expected. There was a rebroadcast of episode 6 on Saturday and I watched it and thought it was mostly fun. If her sister's subplot hadn't been there, this would have been a really good episode. I found the excitment building when Jaime had to go back and rescue her CIA partner and love interest, Tom. And that rescue was pretty cleverly written.
What I liked best about this episode was the banter between her and Tom. Earlier, I said I wanted something more tongue-in-cheek...well, here I got more of a light touch instead -- and it worked. While Jordan Bridges will never play James Bond, he is probably right for a role where he is to be constantly outshone by the female lead. And he's a good actor, so while he and Michelle Ryan don't have great chemistry they can make it look good.
I have to agree that Michelle Ryan's acting isn't soul-stirring, and she lacks Lindsay Wagner's toughness, but she is wholesomely attractive and perfectly American. (I see that she had to play a British transfer student in one of the episodes -- I'll have to check it out and see if she managed the British accent :) )
Fangy and grrr - November 28, 2007 12:17 AM (GMT)
Article from this week's Guardian Guide about The Bionic Women & the writer's strike.
A spoilery mention of the backstory and plotline of Katie Sackhoff's character.
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Jonathan Bernstein aerial view of America
Michelle Ryan has made the leap from Walford to Hollywood, but would Bionic Woman have seen the light of day if it weren't for the writer's strike? That is the six million dollar question...
Jonathan Bernstein
Saturday November 24, 2007
The Guardian
I'm not saying I became a writer principally to avoid human contact, spending time outside and participating in group events, but they were all contributing factors. Yet, because I'm a sporadically-employed and skimpily-rewarded screenwriter, much of my week is suddenly taken up marching in circles outside TV and movie studios with other disenfranchised scribblers, brandishing placards and chanting - or, in my case, enthusiastically mouthing - rhyming couplets expressing our demand for a few more coins from the vast corporate coffers. To be honest, I don't even like writing that much, so imagine how I resent dragging my aching ankles out to the non-celeb studded CBS studios and spending four-hour shifts acting like I feel some kind of solidarity with what looks like a small town exclusively populated by clones of Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons (but, like I say, that's CBS. Over at Fox, Eva Longoria and Katherine Heigl are shoulder-to-shoulder).
There's no earthly reason why anyone in the UK should squander sympathy on an American entertainment industry dispute few US citizens, outside New York or LA, either comprehend or care about. What you want to know is: how does the writer's strike, which is generally predicted to stretch until at least June, affect American audiences and, by extension, British fans of US imports? At first, hardly at all. The initial victims have been the late-night shows; Letterman, Leno, Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and Saturday Night Live, all of which rely on platoons of comedy writers, are currently in repeats with only Letterman expressing a preference for returning to the air and improvising his way through Late Show. Most dramas and comedies have enough completed scripts to see them through to January. The exceptions are 24, which won't air a new season, The Office, which ran out of original scripts mid-November and the second series of Heroes, which is just about done. The real results of the strike should manifest themselves come January, when the networks put into effect their hastily-cobbled together contingency plans to plug the holes in their schedules with game shows. Fox, home of American Idol, will experience no appreciable damage. But with only eight new Lost episodes, no fresh CSIs, ERs, Law & Orders, Desperate Housewives, Houses, Grey's Anatomys, Ugly Bettys, 30 Rocks or My Name Is Earls, this could turn into a chilly winter for a bunch of intransigent corporate overlords who would rather lose billions than be seen to cough up a negligible amount of internet residuals.
The current industrial action is both a gift and a curse to a bunch of the new season's sluggishly performing shows. NBC's botched Bionic Woman reboot would almost certainly have been consigned to the scrapheap of bad ideas. Seeing that I express my solidarity with my fellow striking writers in a taciturn manner, I don't know if any of the chubby guys with whom I travel in placarding circles were Bionic Woman staffers. But it's likely. The show went through a revolving door of perplexed scribblers attempting to pin down the appropriate tone. If I told you that the new BW was about a woman struggling to hold on to her humanity against the machine inside her and searching to find the drug that would save her from the virus that gives her less than a year to live, you, if you were so geekily inclined, would splooge in your pants and proclaim the new Bionic Woman a bleakly unmissable triumph. And so it would have been, had I not given you the VILLAIN'S STORYLINE. Amazingly, the bad Bionic Woman, played by the super-charismatic Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica), comes with a fully-fleshed out story and a reason for us to sympathize with her plight. Meanwhile, the actual, eponymous Bionic W is a brooding blank. Michelle Ryan is going to have some heart-rending Hollywood horror stories when she returns home. It wasn't her fault she was rendered invisible every time she had to play opposite Katee Sackhoff. It wasn't her fault the constantly changing writing team meant that the mood of the show morphed from bleakly futuristic to retreads of old Alias scripts. It wasn't her fault that being stuck on a timorous network meant that all of her action scenes could only be shown in tight close-up so that no fearful audience member would ever have to suffer through the horror of seeing a punch or kick actually make contact with a foe. It wasn't her fault that NBC scooped up actor Isaiah Washington after he'd been kicked off Gray's Anatomy for his hair-trigger temper and even more hair-trigger homophobia. Washington's 11th-hour employment in the ranks of the show's hazily-defined covert cabal meant that Ryan's character was now buckling under the gruff but concerned tutelage of four separate mentors. It certainly wasn't Ryan's fault that the writers suddenly realised that her God-given accent was a million times more charming than her flat American enunciation but, other than one mission, found no opportunities to utilise it.
But that's just my opinion. You might think Bionic Woman is a triumph. That none of the many writers involved will get paid for. Even though NBC profits off the ads they sell on the site. And the fact that I'm forced to take the side of the writers behind the worst new show on TV shows how strongly I feel about this strike... |
prophecy girl - December 4, 2007 11:18 AM (GMT)
NBC will end its run of original Bionic Woman episodes this month and hasn't announced whether it will order more, Variety reported; most industry insiders consider Bionic a long shot for a renewal, given its sagging ratings and the ongoing writers' strike.
prophecy girl - December 14, 2007 10:14 AM (GMT)
it look like ITV2 is going to show bionic woman (well according the trailer for their winter shows )
star_fury - March 9, 2008 05:41 PM (GMT)
The bionic woman kicks off this Tuesday at 9pm on ITV2 ... or ITV4 ... I forget which :whistling:
little pixie - March 9, 2008 06:31 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (star_fury @ Mar 9 2008, 05:41 PM) |
| The bionic woman kicks off this Tuesday at 9pm on ITV2 ... or ITV4 ... I forget which :whistling: |
*Cough* Points at calendar *cough* :whistling: ;)
prophecy girl - March 12, 2008 09:55 AM (GMT)
episode one
ok i suppose, a bit quick to introduce the big bad girl but their fight on the roof was really good.
will watch a second episode
little pixie - March 12, 2008 01:56 PM (GMT)
Thought it was okay. :)
I`d agree that Katee Sackhoff is the best thing in it. :ponder:
It seemed like they were trying to shoehorn too many storylines into 42 minutes ; maybe it would`ve been better as a 2 hour opener. :unsure:
I thought the little girl in the car saying something like I just thought it was cool that girls could do that ranks as the most nauseating thing I`ve heard in a long time. :rolleyes:
Happy to keep tuning in though. :lol:
prophecy girl - March 12, 2008 03:59 PM (GMT)
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Bionic gives ITV2 record ratings
The first episode of US TV drama The Bionic Woman has given ITV2 its largest ever audience, initial figures suggest.
The show, starring former EastEnders actress Michelle Ryan, was watched by an average of 2.2 million viewers, according to overnight figures.
The digital channel's previous best was 1.9 million viewers for Footballers' Wives: Extra Time in 2005.
But the remake of the 1970s favourite is expected to be axed by US network NBC after just one series.
The first episode was a hit in the US, attracting 13.9 million viewers when it made its debut in September.
But it has since suffered in the ratings. Only eight episodes were aired before the writers' strike affected production and it has yet to be recommissioned.
The show's UK debut at 2100 GMT on ITV2 beat Channel 4's The Woman Who Stops Traffic, which attracted 736,000 viewers.
BBC One's Hotel Babylon was the most watched programme at that time, with five million viewers.
Story from BBC NEWS:
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star_fury - March 13, 2008 03:46 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (little pixie @ Mar 12 2008, 01:56 PM) |
I`d agree that Katee Sackhoff is the best thing in it. :ponder:
It seemed like they were trying to shoehorn too many storylines into 42 minutes ; maybe it would`ve been better as a 2 hour opener. :unsure:
I thought the little girl in the car saying something like I just thought it was cool that girls could do that ranks as the most nauseating thing I`ve heard in a long time. :rolleyes:
Happy to keep tuning in though. :lol: |
I agree with all that but I'm especially glad I'm not the only one that thought the little girl in the car part was especially awful.
Unless the series improves greatly I don't know how they're going to manage without Katee Sackhoff whose sheer screen presence raises the show to at least watchable.