Did the Brits Dislike Bionic Woman as Much as the Americans?

[Christopher]

I'm not sure you realize this, but 99% of the time "San Francisco" is shown on TV, it's really Vancouver. Bionic Woman didn't invent this.

Vancouver or Los Angeles. In two San Fran-based shows, Charmed and Journeyman, the houses where the main characters lived were actually located on Carroll Avenue in LA, and in fact are right next door to each other. Journeyman actually did a fair amount of location shooting in San Francisco in its early episodes, lending an air of authenticity, but that diminished later in the season. Charmed usually just used LA locations or the Paramount backlot.

 

[Ro_Laren]

I am surprised at how upset people can be that BW was set in San Francisco, but filmed in Vancouver. That happens to a lot of shows... especially CSI: Miami. I mean, it has the freaking name of the city in the title, but yet barely any of it is every filmed in Miami!

 

[wamdue]

if I recall correctly the Doctor Who TV Movie was set in SanFransico, but filmed at least in Canada, im sure if we ever had a Star Fleet Academy series, it too would be filmed there.

 

[Davros]

The New Bionic Woman was insulting and too dark to what could have been a great show. Making Jamie Sommers a stupid bartender and not a fighter pilot? The original show had more balls than this one did!

In the original show she was a tennis player turned teacher.

I for one liked the new Bionic Woman show and was bummed out when it was cancelled. Having watched the original when it came out I can say withour hessitation that the new one was better on every level. I do not understand the hatred people have for it.

 

[Orac Zen]

I didn't "hate" it - who wastes time hating something as trivial as a TV show? I just found it incredibly boring, with really dull, grim characters I couldn't give a damn about doing pointless things. To each their own, however.

 

[Christopher]

I didn't "hate" it - who wastes time hating something as trivial as a TV show?

Orac Zen, meet the Internet. Internet, Orac Zen.

 

[Orac Zen]

Yes, I've been around long enough to be familiar with the concept. However, I reckon the word is thrown around too casually and suggesting people who don't like a TV show actually hate it is a ridiculous leap. If someone genuinely hates a TV show...

 

[Christopher]

^Yes, it's ridiculous to hate a TV show, but there are some ridiculously obsessive fans out there. There are very few of them, but the Internet allows them to be heard as loudly as anyone else -- more so, since they tend to post so heavily and aggressively about their ridiculous hatreds.

 

[Ptrope]

No, the English actress wasn't very good-looking and she was hardly an exception to the show's negative qualities. On the other hand, the American actress playing her sister was devastatingly gorgeous.

I think Michelle Ryan is gorgeous, although I don't think they did much to show that off in the show; she was stunning in Jekyll. I also thought she did a good job with her accent - I'm an American and I never caught her sounding 'off.'

As for her sister, I think that was the biggest mistake they made with the series. In the pilot, she was deaf, which created a much better dynamic between the two characters than just her being a teen hacker, which was not in any way original. Her deafness was a good basis for the friction between herself and not just Jaime, but the world at large, and had they kept that, Jaime would also have had a good basis for inner conflict, knowing that the tech existed to probably allow her sister to hear, and yet she could not reveal that or ask them to give her the implants. That single change is, I think, what killed the show before it even started.

 

[Ro_Laren]

Bionic Woman changed direction too much from episode to episode,” Ryan explains, “which I think is why it lost momentum. But the whole experience was amazing, living in Vancouver, having my own place. It opened up my world. I remember when we shot the trailer in LA the crew had to close off a road because the scene involved a helicopter, a fire engine and an upturned police car. I remember jumping on the police car and had a moment of: ‘OK, I think I’ve landed in Hollywood.’”

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...view-Michelle-Ryan-on-joining-Doctor-Who.html

Michelle Ryan has admitted that she was "upset" over NBC's decision to axe Bionic Woman after just one season.

The former EastEnders actress landed the lead role in the sci-fi remake in February 2007, but the show's production was halted months later due to the US writers' strike.

In 2008, it was confirmed that the programme would not be recommissioned following disappointing ratings.

Speaking to The Guardian about the project's fate, Ryan revealed: "It was really upsetting because we had been making a great, popular show.

Source: http://www.digitalspy.com/ustv/a152466/ryan-was-upset-over-bionic-axe.html

 

[wamdue]

did she ever do any wire work for Bionic Woman?

 

[Ro_Laren]

^ I think so.