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'Bionic Woman' and Other TV Pilots Leaked Online

by Tim Stevens on July 30, 2007 at 03:01 PM

Fall Network Pilots Online NowEvery summer, when the weather's (usually) nice, TV networks go dormant, filling their programming slots with endless repeats and stupid new game shows hosted by B-list celebrities. In the Fall, they wheel out the big guns and launch salvos of expensive premier pilots at each other -- all to win the never-ending war for viewership.

This year, a few of those salvos have had their potential downgraded, thanks to the leaking of their storylines online. Within the past week, the scripts for pilots for new series like 'Bionic Woman,' a modernized take on the classic 1970s 'Bionic Woman' series, appeared online on many popular peer-to-peer sites where pirated copies of movies and TV are downloaded.

Other scripts that have shown up fon these sites include 'The Sarah Connor Chronicles,' an Arnie-less spin off of the 'Terminator' movies, and 'Cavemen,' the seemingly ill-fated sitcom based on the tragic Geico commercials.

If television history is any indicator, most of these plots are doomed and won't last more than a season or two anyway, but we sure are digging the 'Bionic Woman' preview (the show is being produced by David Eick, the same guy behind the revamped 'Battlestar Galactica,' and even stars Katee Sackoff, who plays Starbuck on BSG).


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