BIONIC WOMAN: They Couldn’t Rebuild Her. They Didn’t Have the Technology.

Executive producer David Eick confirmed today that the reboot of Bionic Woman is powering down. While I admire his frankness in saying that the show just didn’t gel and there comes a time to move on, it’s never a vote of confidence when your boss says, “Some of the writing was good.” I’d love to [...]

Picking Up the Pieces: What’s Left of the TV Season?

Assuming the outcome of today’s WGA vote is positive, we’re only hours away from an end to the strike. So, in the immortal words of President Josiah Bartlet, “What’s next?”
A number of showrunners have already gone back work, making plans for the remainder of the season and scrambling to figure out how many episodes they [...]

Fire Up the Infinite Improbability Drive

I’m not sure how I feel about Seth Green’s neck exploding. (If you haven’t been keeping up with Grey’s Anatomy, I can hardly blame you, but just to catch you up: Seth Green’s neck exploded at the end of the last episode. Tune in tonight to see if that kills him. I’m going with [...]

Full Season Orders for CHUCK and LIFE

NBC has finally started handing out back-nine orders, granting both Chuck and Life a full season. Lately, Chuck has been the highest rated of all of NBC’s new shows. Life, on the other hand, has been pulling in lukewarm numbers, but the critically acclaimed show is tops in its timeslot with the all-important 18-34 demographic.
“Both [...]

Thursday Newsapalooza

Sci Fi Channel has ordered a two-hour pilot of Warehouse 13, a comedy-drama described as part X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark and part Moonlighting, written by Farscape creator Rockne O’Bannon, Battlestar Galactica co-executive producer Jane Espenson and D. Brent Mote. (Yahoo!)
The CW’s Reaper and ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money have both received three-script extensions. [...]

BIONIC WOMAN: Science Is Scary!

If you’re a girl, that is. Unless you’re Asian. Asian girls are good at science! So are girls who wear glasses, and that’s double-plus-true if they are Asian girls who wear glasses. Girls whose bodies are full of science still find science scary.
Although the above was the primary lesson I gleaned from last night’s [...]

BIONIC WOMAN: Sarah Corvus Never Was a Cornflake Girl

The blessing and the curse of series television is the ability to salt in little tidbits that allow a story arc to slam together in a powerful way down the road. The curse arises when creators are unable to make good on the investment viewers have made across a season (Lost? Heroes? I’m looking at [...]

BIONIC WOMAN: Could You Rebuild It? You Have the Technology…

My memories of childhood are extremely fuzzy, but I remember one thing—I wanted a Bionic Woman doll, and I wanted it badly. You could actually roll up her skin and take out her bionic components! Her bionic ear made bionic noises! Her feathered hair was possibly bionic in its bounciness and ability to hold a [...]