NBC Sci-Fi Fall Previews: The Bionic Woman, Chuck and Journeyman
Pink Raygun received an email late last night from someone representing NBC with linkage to preview videos for three new science-fiction shows premiering this Fall. We present these without any comment (yet).
First Up: The Bionic Woman: “The Bionic Woman—Battlestar Galactica Producer David Eick’s reimagining of a classic 70s sci-fi series, starring Michelle Ryan. Ryan plays Jaime Sommers, a woman who has her body augmented by bionic implants after getting into an accident, and is drawn into the machinations of the military. We’ve got three video clips, two of the show itself, and one of an interview of Eick talking about the thinking behind the show–The interview starts with him briefly discussing Ryan’s role as a strong, female character.”
Jamie Jumps:
Jamie Fights:
Jamie Gets Talked About by Executive Producer David Eick:
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Next, we have the show Chuck: “Chuck—A comedy about a college-age IT employee (he works for “The Nerd Herd,â€? a mobile tech support company), who gains access to a wealth of government secrets and becomes an secret agent overnight. It’s written by the head writer of The O.C., Josh Schwartz, and stars Zachary Levi.”
The NSA catches up with Chuck and Sarah:
A car chase:
Last up for today, we have previews of the new Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) vehicle, Journeyman: “Journeyman—A drama about a man who finds himself with the uncontrollable power to travel through time. It stars Kevin McKidd, who played Lucius Vorenus on HBO’s Rome, and it is, quite frankly, a bit difficult to describe.”
Dan (McKidd) is thrown out of his house in 1987:
Dan saves Nell:
Interview with Kevin Mckidd:
So, what do you guys think? Is NBC putting it’s best foot forward with these previews? Give us your comments below.
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Michelle Ryan seems unconvincing. Katee Sackoff was more convincing in those clips than the so-called bionic woman. yeah she can leap and jump and run really fast, but it seemed more like she was running the gauntlet than actually invested in the fight. Granted these are scenes taken out of context, but when she tells Miguel Ferrer (glad to see he’s got work considering Jordan’s over) that she’s going to do this on her terms or more bodies will end up in coffins or something like that, I didn’t believe her, she sounds weak. She reminds me of Rachel Nichols on the Inside, at first I didn’t buy her being a FBI agent, as the show progressed she filled into her roll. I only hope that NBC give Ryan enough time to “get” her character instead of pulling the plug the second the show doesn’t work. Granted I don’t know why Katee Sackoff couldn’t of been the Bionic Woman, she’s got that “woman on a journey” thing down pat.
Chuck, I remember that show, it was called Jake 2.0 and it failed! Granted it didn’t have Adam Baldwin in it, which as history has shown, probably not a good bet if you don’t want your show to get cancelled (it’s starting to seem like the Firefly curse, Baccarin joins SG1- Cancelled, Fillion and Drive – Cancelled, Baldwin and The Inside & Daybreak – Cancelled), so maybe 2 cacnelleds equal a success? I do like the humor of the main character, he’s got that down, but he looks WAY TOO OLD to be in college, unless college is a PhD program. This is like convincing me that Ian Ziering was young enough to be in High School during 90210. I will definately check out the pilot though as I like Sarah Lancaster as the CIA agent, and, well, I’ll watch anything with someone from Firefly in it.
The last one, well I have no clue. Seems too vague a concept for people to enjoy. If you can’t verbalize what the show is about, how are you going to sell it to the general populace? I mean Heroes was easy “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World” “How Do You Stop and Exploding Man?” but Journeyman seems to be a really vague version of Quantum Leap (without the main character having to be a woman at any point, which is sort of disappointing I always loved Bakula as a chick), what it seems to be missing is a main character who is enigmatic enough to make me want to know what in the frell is going on.
In Sum: Chuck and Bionic Woman I’ll check out, and I can already see myself really enjoying them. Journeyman seems to be the one loser in this bunch for me personally, mostly cos I have no frakking clue as to what it may or may not be about.