Goodbye to The Bionic Woman

Posted on March 19, 2008

Producer David Eick confirmed that The Bionic Woman has been put on the scrap heap, never to rise again. He sounds pretty frustrated about it.

"I just felt that 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 in an interview at 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."

But, he added: "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."

Bionic Woman, a reboot of the 1970s series of the same name, debuted to strong ratings last fall, but its numbers dropped precipitously after that, and behind-the-scenes problems persisted. Cancellation was expected after the network failed to order additional episodes once the writers' strike ended.

Bionic Woman was a disaster: the show never gelled. Katee Sackhoff stole every scene she was in, for one thing. She is just a much more charismatic actress than Michelle Ryan. Although Michelle may have sounded a bit dull and flat because she was covering up her English accent. In the one episode they had her do her normal accent, she was so much more compelling.

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