Bionic Woman 2007 V01 (2007)

"The most buzzed-about show of the Fall season.  Boston Herald
"...a very good cast...Few actors can play menacing the way Miguel Ferrer does.  Home Theater Info
"...action-packed...better, faster, stronger...than the original version...  Shawn McKenzie, Entertain Your Brain!

Editor's Note Just as executive producer David Eick helped reinvent BATTLESTAR GALACTICA for a new generation, he gives the 1970s series THE BIONIC WOMAN a slick update here. Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan, EASTENDERS) lives an average life as an average woman, but a horrific car crash upends her quiet existence. Scientists have saved her life, but she is now the less-than-proud owner of high-tech body parts that give her incredible strength and speed. Indebted to the scientists, Jamie now has to use her powers for their projects while she conceals her new abilities from her younger sister (Lucy Kate Hale, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER). Miguel Ferrer (CROSSING JORDAN), Molly Price (THIRD WATCH), and Will Yun Lee (WITCHBLADE) costar as people employed by the secretive company. But it's the guest appearances from Isaiah Washington (GREY'S ANATOMY) and especially Katee Sackhoff (BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) as the first bionic woman that give the action-driven series an extra shot of energy. Volume one contains the first part of the show's first season.

	Isaiah Washington
	Katee Sackhoff
	Kevin Rankin
	Lucy Hale
	Michelle Ryan
	Miguel Ferrer
	Molly Price
	Will Yun Lee
	Augie Hess - Editor
	Barry Zetlin - Editor
	David Eick - Executive Producer
	Jason Smilovic - Writer
	Laeta Kalogridis - Writer
	Laeta Kalogridis - Producer
	Lisa Coleman - Original Music By
	Mark S. Freeborn - Production Designer
	Michael Dinner - Director
	Michael Joy - Production Designer
	Robert McLachlan - Cinematographer
	Stephen Jackson - Cinematographer
	Tony Wohlgemuth - Art Director

Variety 8 of 10
Attempting to do for "The Bionic Woman" what he and partner Ronald Moore did for another kitschy '70s classic with "Battlestar Galactica," producer David Eick re-imagines the Jaime Sommers mythology minus the slow-motion and goofy sound effects. The elaborate pilot thus includes a less-benign government, nifty nanotechnology, a villainous cabal and an attractive young British lead in Michelle Ryan. A little messy in its conception, the series still exhibits considerable potential...As opposed to the original, which was plucked from the ribs of "The Six-Million-Dollar Man," Jaime has to stand on her own -- for awhile, anyway, until a tragic (and way-cool) car accident leaves her body ravaged in all kinds of enhance-able ways...Already, Eick and writer Laeta Kalogridis (whose experience with super-powered women includes the short-lived "Birds of Prey") have won part of the battle -- keeping the name but otherwise transforming a show that was really pretty silly back in the day into something dark, sleek and reasonably sophisticated, at the same time cashing in on the title's built-in recognition.