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"Bionic," which is now the fall's top new premiere and NBC's best Wednesday series premiere since "The West Wing" in 1999, built from its first half hour to its second among 18-49s, while "Practice" was flat. "Bionic" is a remake of the 1970s show about a woman who becomes part machine thanks to a life-saving procedure that gives her superhuman strength. NBC pumped the show with a heavy marketing campaign designed to appeal to the same viewers who made "Heroes" into a hit. Indeed, that show is strong with the younger male demos, and "Woman" won its timeslot in men 18-34 and 18-49 last night, while "Practice" was No. 1 in adults 18-34 and the major female demographics. "Practice" also topped "Bionic" by 600,000 in total viewers, drawing 14.2 million. Yet perhaps as surprising as "Bionic's" performance was NBC's "Life," which won its timeslot at 10 p.m. leading out of "Bionic" despite being dismissed by media buyers and many critics. NBC took the lead at 9 p.m. with its 5.5 for "Bionic," with ABC second with a 5.1 for "Practice." CBS was third with a 3.5 for "Criminal Minds," Fox fourth with a 2.4 for "Kitchen Nightmares," Univision fifth with a 2.2 for "Destilando Amor" and CW sixth with a 1.2 for "Gossip Girl." Bionic Woman is about, well, a bionic woman. Jamie Sommers was in a car crash, and her scientist boyfriend/soon-to-be baby daddy decides that, since the choice is to either let her die or make her half-woman half-machine, to make her all bionic and what not. Oh, and there's an evil first bionic woman out there running amok. This, my friends, is the clunky part. The show, well, it kind of blows up until Jamie actually starts BEING the bionic woman. Once she starts using her new technology, the show picks up dramatically and actually becomes really entertaining, including one hell of a catfight. BIONIC WOMAN MOVIE ACTORS ACTRESS FILMS TV SEX BEHIND THE SCENES GHOST |
