The pilot for this new series is available OnDemand via Comcast. Be forewarned, the audio is Mono!!!

The pilot for this new series is available OnDemand via Comcast. Be forewarned, the audio is Mono!!!

Free? $0.99? $3.00?

I didn't find Bionic Woman via OnDemand in Chicago, but we do have access to the pilot of Life. It's located under HD\NBC HD (not HD\Network Shows\NBC, which doesn't exist).

Just the pilots for "Chuck" and "Life" here. Here the audio is 2.0DD. I'll just wait for it to be on NBC so it will be full 5.1DD.

The pilot for this new series is available OnDemand via Comcast. Be forewarned, the audio is Mono!!!
Where is it located in the On Demand menu? I can't find here either.

I have The Bionic Woman, Chuck, Life, and Journeyman.

I have The Bionic Woman, Chuck, Life, and Journeyman.

As do I in the suburbs of Chicago

Just the pilots for "Chuck" and "Life" here. Here the audio is 2.0DD. I'll just wait for it to be on NBC so it will be full 5.1DD.

It registers as 2.0 on my receiver as well, but only the center channel is active.

Where is it located in the On Demand menu? I can't find here either.

HD OnDemand/Network Shows/NBC HD.

Free? $0.99? $3.00?

Free

It registers as 2.0 on my receiver as well, but only the center channel is active.There's definitely something coming of the rears, you need to put on Dolby PLII. But as I already stated, why bother? I'd rather just DVR it and get it with full 5.1 and skip through the commercials.

Just the pilots for "Chuck" and "Life" here. Here the audio is 2.0DD. I'll just wait for it to be on NBC so it will be full 5.1DD.

Doesn't make a difference for me because my local NBC doesn't do 5.1.:rolleyes:

available on COX as well.

["Bionic Woman"]available on COX as well.

:D:D giggles... you said Cox... :D:D

Yeah...BIONIC WOMAN did register as Dolby Stereo on my receiver, which defaults any non-5.1 digital audio to DPLII - "Movie" mode. All 5 channels has something coming thru (albeit "fake" surround).

Even though I could DVR this (and the other new shows) and get 5.1 from my local station, I figure via OnDemand, I'm saving HDD space for returning shows I know I will be watching as they premiere. DPLII audio for a "test-run" of a pilot is fine, esp since they are in HD.

No comments on the content? Pilot was almost universally panned, but science fiction generally is.

Chuck certainly seems more interesting of the two to me, but I will reserve judgement until they start running them at the end of the month.

No comments on the content? Pilot was almost universally panned, but science fiction generally is.

I've read that the Bionic Woman pilot was extensively recast and reworked since the version that got negative feedback on the convention circuit.

The pilot for this new series is available OnDemand via Comcast. Be forewarned, the audio is Mono!!!

thanks for the heads-up

my system is also showing the pilot for "life"

i wonder if they'll have a big foot episode

:)

No comments on the content? Pilot was almost universally panned, but science fiction generally is.

I thought it was kind of boring and predictable, but it had to do all that typical pilot setting-up stuff.

My wife really enjoyed it.

I have The Bionic Woman, Chuck, Life, and Journeyman.

Where is it located? I live in Baltimore County and can't seem to find it.

I have The Bionic Woman, Chuck, Life, and Journeyman.

Ditto, Essex county, nj. I can already tell that Bionic Woman, much like the original, is not going to be my cup of tea.

In Chicago, we still only have Life and Journeyman. If I hadn't already seen them, I'd grab the other two pilots free from Amazon Unbox.

Anyone see this one and the one that was available on the internet a few months back?

What was different?

Where is it located? I live in Baltimore County and can't seem to find it.

HD On Demand>NBC HD.

HD On Demand>NBC HD.

I only have CBS HD and the only show is CSI :(. Hopefully I get all the pilots soon.

Someone know when it will debut ?

Is Michelle Ryan in The Bionic Woman. She was a regular actress in the peaktime evening BBC soap "EastEnders" for many years in the UK - quite a surprise when I heard she may have become a bit of a star in the making in the US!

I saw the leaked version of the pilot and was disappointed. I'm looking forward to seeing the reworking of it to see what changes were made. Is this Comcast version the newer pilot or the leaked one?

I watched both Chuck and the Bionic Woman. They arn't too bad, but I liked drive too.

Those of you who really really want to see them, they are free on Amazon. I also have promos of the abc and cbs shows on demand, but they seem to be nothing more than a promo 5 min than the first episode.

Adam

No comments on the content? Pilot was almost universally panned, but science fiction generally is.

No Oscar Goldman or Steve Austin here. Created by and sort-of forced to work for (or be chased by) Shadowy government agency. If you've seen DARK ANGEL, you seen this. Pretty formulaic stuff, I thought. GALACTICA fans will enjoy seeing Katie Sackhoff and whoever-the-guy-is-that-played the Chief is supporting roles.

GALACTICA fans will enjoy seeing Katie Sackhoff and whoever-the-guy-is-that-played the Chief is supporting roles.

The Chief is played by Aaron Douglas. From everything I've read, Katee was so compelling when on-screen that she overshadowed the lead actress. Consequently, they re-wrote her part to make it larger. Got no problem with that as long as she can give us a full season of Starbuck. TBW will have the bigger budget, but BSG will remain the better show, I'm sure.

yeah she did. It's one thing to have just 1 bionic woman but to bring in a 1st and she has redone most of her body... seriously took away from the main character.

I read they took out the deaf sister too. did they?

guess I'll go by my bro to check it out. where on Cox is it?

Comcast has it in Baltimore City.

I saw the leaked version of the pilot and was disappointed. I'm looking forward to seeing the reworking of it to see what changes were made. Is this Comcast version the newer pilot or the leaked one?

I second this question.

If the version on Comcast has a storyline with a deaf sister, it's the old version. The deaf sister has been dropped from the reworked version of the show.

Anyone?

yeah she did. It's one thing to have just 1 bionic woman but to bring in a 1st and she has redone most of her body... seriously took away from the main character.
And to add insult to injury, based on the trailers alone, I'm betting the lead will be totally overshadowed by Katee's genuinely strong presence. Hell, I'd bet most actors would be. I stick with my original suggestion. Kill off the ingenue, make Katee the lead, and let her do double duty on TBW & BSG for the one year until BSG retires.

I read they took out the deaf sister too. did they?
Yeah, I asked about that earlier on, because the actress cast as the deaf sister has been all over the map lately, between Weeds and Jericho.

Josh confirmed that she was out as a result of the re-tooling, as noted again above.

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The wife and I watched it last night. Not bad. Not as strong a pilot as the BSG "miniseries" was. But seeing both Douglass and especially Sackhoff was cool (Katee looked a bit more "girly" than she does as Starbuck).

The old "deaf sister" subplot was replaced by "troubled teen sister" subplot. Part of that may have to do also with the fact the "deaf" actress will be back for JERICHO (I assume).

This may turn out cool...or not. But I'll keep watching. Journeyman or Chuck are on tap tonight.

Yeah, I asked about that earlier on, because the actress cast as the deaf sister has been all over the map lately, between Weeds and Jericho.



Since the once-super-hot Marlee Matlin has gotten a little long in the tooth, Shoshannah Stern has apparently become the "go to" actress when the part calls for a deaf girl. I doubt that the unexpected return of 'Jericho' (btw, I am thrilled about that) had anything to do with her part in TBW being recast, though. They did a lot of re-tooling on this show.

I doubt that the unexpected return of 'Jericho' (btw, I am thrilled about that) had anything to do with her part in TBW being recast, though. They did a lot of re-tooling on this show.
I agree that it was primarily attributable to the overall re-tooling, and not the return of Jericho. OTOH, I don't think her over-exposure during a relatively short period of time helped the situation either; a la Ms. Matlin, who hit a similar bump in the road.

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The wife and I watched it last night. Not bad. Not as strong a pilot as the BSG "miniseries" was. But seeing both Douglass and especially Sackhoff was cool (Katee looked a bit more "girly" than she does as Starbuck).

The old "deaf sister" subplot was replaced by "troubled teen sister" subplot. Part of that may have to do also with the fact the "deaf" actress will be back for JERICHO (I assume).

This may turn out cool...or not. But I'll keep watching. Journeyman or Chuck are on tap tonight.

Ahh, thanks. I'll watch the show for a few episodes to see if it improves. The version of the pilot I saw felt very rushed to me. I think they could've done a better job setting things up.

Katee was great in it, so that was cool!

from deaf to troubled, why not just axe her totally.

guess I'll try to watch it or wait til it comes on... no one seems to want to share this new version.

I watched the pilot in Comcast and it's the new one.
I found it interesting but I don't know if I have time for a new show. I thought Chuck has more probabilities to survive.

Katee Sackhoff still does stomp all over the lead actress in their scenes together, and not just literally. Switch the two around and it'd be a better show. The guy who is the head evil honcho (Mark Sheppard I think, Romo Lampkin from BSG) seems well cast, and so does the chief ME from Crossing Jordan as the big boss. Everyone else, bleh. Will watch a few episodes once it goes live to see how they do.

I actually thought Life wasn't all that bad either, but that was more Damian Lewis getting a chance to show off his acting skills than the plot, which was really uneven. Could very easily be a stinker but if they do it right might be an interesting one (see Miami Vice for cop shows that had potential but took a few episodes to get there)

If Michelle Ryan is playing the lead, I can imagine loads of actresses seriously upstaging her. She wasn't the most charismatic, or strongest character actress on EastEnders. (Which is why loads of Brits are surprised she's been picked for TBW) Don't get me wrong - she can act, and she coped with some very serious storylines maturely at a young age - but I don't think any of us thought she was "US Action Adventure" series fodder.

I watched Bionic Woman and Chuck. Bionic Woman has a lot of problems. The dialog varies from bad to painful. The oddest thing is that the entire show has the exact same spooky tone from beginning to end so I never got the feeling that this was an ordinary woman living a normal life then was suddenly transformed into a superhuman. From the very first minute it had the surreal tone of a poor imitation of Blade Runner. Now Michelle Ryan does look spectactular running through the rain but she is no Jennifer Garner. That was all too clear in the fight scene with Katee Sackhoff that was so chopped up it might as well have been left out. All I could think of during this show was how brilliant the Alias pilot was compared to this silliness. It's too bad because it has a lot of simliar elements with Alias. Sackhoff does a pretty good evil except when she has to say those dumb lines they gave her.

I agree that Chuck is the one to bet on. It has a fairly clever concept (for TV science fiction anyway). I thought the humor is well written but was a little too overacted but that'll probably improve (this is a pilot). The style is unlike any show I've seen. The entire show has over the top saturation and is lit with the softest possible lighting imaginable making it look more like a 44 minute commercial than a TV show (even the night scenes are nearly shadowless!). This works great in the scenes at "Buy More" which look exactly like Circuit CIty commercials. I'm concerned that Adam Baldwin is in this because he manages to ruin everything he touches but maybe the "Animal Mother" character he's been playing for the past 20 years will finally pay off since he's playing it for laughs.

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I'm concerned that Adam Baldwin is in this because he manages to ruin everything he touches

Have to disagree. Baldwin is one of the primary delights of FIREFLY/SERENITY.

Have to disagree. Baldwin is one of the primary delights of FIREFLY/SERENITY.
Ditto, same for X-Files. And best of all, he's not one of the Baldwin brothers. :cool:

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Have to disagree. Baldwin is one of the primary delights of FIREFLY/SERENITY.

I disagree. In Firefly and Serenity, Adam Baldwin was once again playing his "Animal Mother" role that he's been doing since the last time he was in a good film. This dumb macho role he's been playing his entire career always falls flat. At least with Chuck he'll have a chance to parody it since that's what it's become.

Ditto, same for X-Files. And best of all, he's not one of the Baldwin brothers. :cool:

It's no coincidence that I didn't like Firefly and I didn't like the X-Files. I felt these cutesy silly sci-fi-lite shows were proof that science fiction was only good for sit-com premises on telelvision.

Then Battlestar Galactica showed up. Thank God!

Shows like Bionic Woman and Surface show that television still has a hard time trying to do serious sci-fi. It's like it wants to treat the material seriously but doesn't know how to do that so it trips over itself giving the show a deadly serious tone when what it really needs is good dialog and believable characters.

It's no coincidence that I didn't like Firefly ... I felt these cutesy silly sci-fi-lite shows were proof that science fiction was only good for sit-com premises on telelvision.
"Firefly" = "cutesy silly sci-fi-lite?" Don your asbestos suit, scowl! Them's fightin' words...

Well, I for one appreciated the writing and dialog in "Firefly." It was clever and not intelligence-insulting. The characters were interesting and well-developed.

Does the bionic dog make a cameo? I think there is a bionic dog in my neighborhood that shits in my yard. I can't ever catch him.

"Firefly" = "cutesy silly sci-fi-lite?" Don your asbestos suit, scowl! Them's fightin' words...
Yeah, I know. Firefly was better than all the Star Treks combined and Serenity was better than 2001 and all the Star Wars combined. You'll probably like Bionic Woman.

There were just so many goofy moments in Firefly (five to a dozen in every episode) that I never took it seriously and the goofy moments (i.e. Jayne's dumb speach in Jaynestown) weren't funny enough to laugh at. Yes, I own the Firefly series and have seen every episode several times so please don't ask me to watch them again.

Well, I finally got around to watching the pilot. What a mess! It feels more patched together than the bionic woman herself. There's no coherency or sense of flow from scene to scene. The lead actress isn't very good, and the dialogue is mostly poor. The storyline with the rebellious teen sister was just terrible. The character behavior and interaction makes no sense (you'd think she might be kind of surprised to find half her body replaced with robot parts, but apparently that sort of thing happens all the time in their world).

Ugh. The show needs a lot of work. I doubt it will last the season.

Yeah, I know. Firefly was better than all the Star Treks combined and Serenity was better than 2001 and all the Star Wars combined. You'll probably like Bionic Woman.

There were just so many goofy moments in Firefly (five to a dozen in every episode) that I never took it seriously and the goofy moments (i.e. Jayne's dumb speach in Jaynestown) weren't funny enough to laugh at. Yes, I own the Firefly series and have seen every episode several times so please don't ask me to watch them again.

Your first paragraph was a little over the top, but you were correct in saying that 'Firefly' was better than all the Star Treks (DS9 possibly excluded).

There are an awful lot of people out there who felt the dialog was clever, witty, and far more intelligent than most of what's on either the tube or big screen. It wasn't a comedy, but it did manage the difficult feat of injecting a bit of levity organically into the drama better than about anything else I've ever seen. To each his own, but you're probably in the minority as far as people who have actually seen the show.

I'm putting my money on Journeyman. Bionic Woman looks like it will never grow on people and Chuck just looked like a bad episode of Cody Banks... totally silly. Journeyman, though it had a predictable pilot, shows a lot of promise.

Have to agree completely. I also got a kick out of how she could accidentally throw people across a room (she was as yet unable to control her power or know her own strength) but never lost it during the lovemaking scene!

Well, I finally got around to watching the pilot. What a mess! It feels more patched together than the bionic woman herself. There's no coherency or sense of flow from scene to scene. The lead actress isn't very good, and the dialogue is mostly poor. The storyline with the rebellious teen sister was just terrible. The character behavior and interaction makes no sense (you'd think she might be kind of surprised to find half her body replaced with robot parts, but apparently that sort of thing happens all the time in their world).

Ugh. The show needs a lot of work. I doubt it will last the season.

There are an awful lot of people out there who felt the dialog was clever, witty, and far more intelligent than most of what's on either the tube or big screen.
Yes, I know a lot of these people and when I ask them to quote some of the dialog they found witty, I either get blank stares or they remember some quotes that were supposed to be funny.

It wasn't a comedy, but it did manage the difficult feat of injecting a bit of levity organically into the drama better than about anything else I've ever seen.
That's exactly the kind of thing that I feel sucks the life out of sci-fi. They're almost winking at the camera so you won't take any of this seriously.

I couldn't take the show seriously after the first two episodes. The huge Serenity flew a few feet undetected over a train full of idiot Alliance solders for several minutes in Train Job. Then the next week a giant Alliance spaceship the size of a skyscraper successfully "sneaked up" on the idiots in Serenity in Bushwacked. Clearly this show was going to be Buck Rodgers level sci-fi. I wondered if anyone on this show knew how to look around to see if the bad guys were nearby! :)

To each his own, but you're probably in the minority as far as people who have actually seen the show.
I didn't like X-Files which was the most successful sci-fi series in television history so that should tell you something!

Unfortunately Bionic Woman goes too far in the wrong direction. OK, BSG proved that they can take a light 70's sci-fi series and turn it into a fantastic drama with serious atmosphere, good characters and believable dialog. With Bionic Woman, they left out the believable characters and the good dialog and poured on the serious atmosphere. I was expecting them to present Jamie Summers as a typical everyday woman like Alias did with Sydney Bristow in so we could relate to her. They didn't.

Anyone remember how good Lee Majors was in the Pilot/Movie of the Week of Six Million Dollar Man? He wakes up with no legs and a missing arm and panics. They present him with his bionic replacement limbs that are so repulsive in their prototype form that he can't stand to look at them but no one cares how he feels because it's a done deal. Then when he wakes up after surgery, he lifts his arm and is amazed to see his bionic hand move. Great drama!

Yes, I know a lot of these people and when I ask them to quote some of the dialog they found witty, I either get blank stares or they remember some quotes that were supposed to be funny.

That's probably because the humor inherent in the show wasn't one-liners done for cheap laughs. It grew organically out of very well developed characters. It's much harder to do the latter than the former. 'Firefly' did it exceedingly well, IMO.

I didn't like X-Files which was the most successful sci-fi series in television history so that should tell you something!

Don't feel bad. The last few years of that show turned a lot of people off. But the first 5 years or so were great fun (as best as I can remember; it's been awhile).

Unfortunately Bionic Woman goes too far in the wrong direction. OK, BSG proved that they can take a light 70's sci-fi series and turn it into a fantastic drama with serious atmosphere, good characters and believable dialog.

You won't find a bigger 'BSG fan than me, but they are two completely different shows. 'BSG' is almost totally devoid of humor, as befits its subject matter. 'Firefly' was more of a light-hearted romp. Both are valid expressions of the sci-fi genre.

Anyone know what the song was they used at the end of "Chuck"? It was a cool song. The show was neat to but i doubt it has much of a chance of making it.. I think a better movie idea than TV show.

'Firefly' was more of a light-hearted romp.

Well that I can agree with! I guess I'm more baffled by the people I know who thought it was a deep serious sci-fi show. These same people also took Buffy very very seriously too. This is one reason why I didn't watch hardly any network television shows for almost ten years.

Firefly had light hearted elements in it but had some serious and deep plot lines as well. It does what any good movie/book/show does.. it mixes many different elements seemlessly and enjoyably.