Bionic Woman News

What did you think about Michelle Ryan’s guest appearance on Doctor Who?

Talk about it on the KryptonSite Forums!

No news yet on when the episode will be airing in the United States.

Michelle Ryan will be joining the BBC’s #1 traveler of time and space as she appears in the Easter 2009 Doctor Who special alongside Tenth Doctor David Tennnant.

The episode will be called “Planet of the Dead,” and is one of the last specials to feature Tennant.

Bionic Woman 2007 may long be over, but Michelle Ryan is still getting a good amount of work, mostly in the United Kingdom.

Recently, Michelle was seen as Nimueh in the first season of The BBC’s Merlin. The show is fantastic, so if you have not yet taken a look, you’re definitely missing something good.

And if you like Merlin… there is, of course, a thread for discussing it on the KryptonSite Forums. Check it out!

Executive Producer David Eick confirmed the end of Bionic Woman in a report posted on Sci Fi Wire.

“The process was so frustrating, and the conditions under which we were making that show never really came to fruition in such a way that I felt like we could make the show well,” Eick said during the SCI FI Channel’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. “The actress [Michelle Ryan] we found was wonderful. Some of the writing was good.”

However, some things just didn’t work. ”We just didn’t ever bring it all together like we did with Battlestar. At a certain point, when it becomes that frustrating, I think you’re better off to say, ‘Let’s try again another time,’ and let it go.”

NBC still has yet to confirm Bionic Woman’s end, but Eick’s words seem as good of a confirmation as any.

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The DVD set containing all eight episodes of Bionic Woman is now available. You can order your set now at Amazon.com.

The set includes pilot commentary and “The Making of the Car Crash” - referring to the sequence in the pilot episode, not the series itself.

Although it’s labeled as “Volume One,” don’t expect any more as the show appears to be over….

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The usually-accurate Mike Ausiello at TV Guide is now saying something that has been expected for a while: Bionic Woman’s systems have shut down.

“I’m told by multiple sources that Bionic staffers were informed late last week that the troubled reboot has indeed been canceled,” Ausiello says in today’s posting.

This comes hot on the heels of another NBC relaunch, Knight Rider, airing and being much more successful, creatively and ratings-wise. Yeah, we went there and said it - Knight Rider was good fun, gosh darn it.

So with that, unless something else is announced to say otherwise, we bid you adieu. The Bionic Website will continue to exist as an archive of Bionic material for the forseeable future, and we thank you for visiting this site in its few months of activity. Like Ausiello, we wish that the show would have been relaunched with new creative people, but for the most part, the show just was a general disappointment, especially when compared to the network’s other shows like Heroes and even the classic Bionic Woman, which, although it was 70’s cheese, at least had a lead character that people could like and relate to.

You’re still invited and welcome to visit the other sites in the KryptonSite Network… there’s KryptonSite for Smallville, of course; HeroSite.net for Heroes; and TerminatorSite for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I’ve also put up a little page for the Knight Rider relaunch, but let’s see first if that goes to series.

Talk about this news on the Bionic Woman forum at KryptonSite!

The 100-day-long strike by the Writers’ Guild of America is now over with a tentative deal in place for the writers. The production teams of many shows are going back to work; though, it seems the second life of Bionic Woman may now be over.

NBC is still listing Bionic Woman as one of their shows on their website, and the DVD set is still planned, although it might end up being “The Complete Series” once all is said and done.

We’ll let you know when and if NBC definitively puts the nail in the Bionic coffin, but things are really not looking good.

Amazon.com is now listing Bionic Woman Volume One as available to pre-order! The DVD will be available on March 18. For more news, see the post below.

Pre-order your copy and support BionicWebsite.com!

Bionic Woman; however, TVShowsOnDVD.com has revealed that NBC plans to release the episodes thus far to DVD a bit earlier than expected - on March 18!

At Amazon.com, you can already pre-order the set - and orders support this site! Here’s what will be seen as extras on the set, as revealed by TVShowsOnDVD.com:

• Pilot Commentary with Executive Producer David Eick
• The Making of the Car Crash
• The Stunts
• Profiles
• Real Life Bionics

We are assuming that good sales of this set could help the chances for more episodes. So, if you want some Bionic DVD goodness…

Order your Bionic Woman Volume 1 DVD set today!

We just received this e-mail from someone who seems very “in the know”…

I spoke with NBC over the weekend and contrary to what is being reported on the internet, BIONIC WOMAN has NOT been cancelled.  Unless something changes, they are not planning to make any decisions until after the writer’s strike. Please let the other fansites know.

So there you have it. Unless NBC announces otherwise, the fate of Bionic Woman is not yet officially decided.

Rumors are flying fast and furious that Bionic Woman has officially been cancelled.

While it is no longer in production thanks to the writers’ strike, NBC has not announced any cancellation yet.

However, ratings have fallen at an alarming rate, and the longer this strike lasts, the longer it will be before the show can be retooled… either way, keep an eye on the Bionic Website and we’ll update you as soon as we know or hear anything.

“Convention reports” that Katee Sackhoff has departed Bionic Woman have been proven false at TV Guide’s website.

“I have no plans to leave Bionic Woman, and Michelle Ryan is doing a great job. There’s not one ounce of bad blood between us,” Sackhoff told the magazine.

Sackhoff revealed that her involvement this year has been pretty limited because of her obligations to Battlestar Galactica; however, she is “contractually obligated to a six-year deal” on BW, and she’d be “happy as a clam” to stay that long. “It’s fun and it’s a physical role, and god knows that’s what I love to do,” she says.

Read the full article at TVGuide.com. Thanks to Patrick for the tip!

[This article has been deleted as it has since been debunked by Sackhoff herself at TVGuide.com]

According to an article in the Globe and Mail, production on Bionic Woman has already wrapped as there are no scripts left to film as a result of the writers’ strike.

The article says production shut down last Friday.

The strike may also put a damper on NBC’s plans to relaunch the show in January. With ratings still in a freefall, will even a new creative team be enough to make the show better, stronger, and faster once the strike is over? Guess we’ll have to wait and see…

Nice outfit.

Tonight (Nov. 14) at 9PM on NBC… another new Bionic Woman!

The title of the episode is “Trust Issues.”

After you’ve seen the show be sure to talk about it on the Bionic Woman forum at KryptonSite! Photos from the episode are also available here.