Fall 2007: NBC's Bionic Woman Is a Brit
Meaning she's, what, a £3 million woman? Here's more on that and other casting bits for the new pilot season, courtesy of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• After eyeing some faces better known to the U.S. audience, NBC tapped Michelle Ryan (of the BBC's EastEnders) to play Jamie Sommers in its revisiting of The Bionic Woman.• Jimmy Smits has landed the lead in CBS' untitled drama centered on a Latin American family in the rum business.• The Practice's Steve Harris will play an imposing but physically unfit veteran cop in CBS' Protect and Serve. • Matt Lanter (aka Heroes' Brody) is an undercover narc posing as a high schooler in ABC's Judy's Got a Gun.Also, NBC has pushed production on Kath & Kim to summer, but says the show is still in the running for the fall.
Meaning she's, what, a £3 million woman? Here's more on that and other casting bits for the new pilot season, courtesy of
Variety and the
Hollywood Reporter:
" After eyeing some faces better known to the U.S. audience, NBC tapped
Michelle Ryan (of the BBC's
EastEnders) to play Jamie Sommers in its revisiting of
The Bionic Woman.
"
Jimmy Smits has landed the lead in CBS'
untitled drama centered on a Latin American family in the rum business.
"
The Practice's
Steve Harris will play an imposing but physically unfit veteran cop in CBS'
Protect and Serve.
"
Matt Lanter (aka
Heroes' Brody) is an undercover narc posing as a high schooler in ABC's
Judy's Got a Gun.
Also, NBC has pushed production on
Kath & Kim to summer, but says the show is still in the running for the fall.