Bionic Woman is an American science fiction television drama created by David Eick, who also serves as executive producer alongside Laeta Kalogridis, and Jason Smilovic. Michael Dinner directed the pilot.

Produced by Universal Media Studios, GEP Productions and David Eick Productions, the series is currently scheduled to air on Wednesday nights at 9:00/8:00c premiering on September 26, 2007 on NBC, following Deal or No Deal. The show will also be broadcast on Seven Network, E! and ITV2 in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom respectively.

The series is a re-imagining of the original The Bionic Woman (1976–1978) television series, dropping the leading "The" from the title. The pilot episode was leaked on the internet and available for download on popular torrent sites on July 27, 2007.

The show premiered with NBC's highest midweek premiere ratings for 8 years, with 13.9 million viewers. The show was the second most watched program in the timeslot, losing out to ABC's Grey's Anatomy spin off Private Practice which took 14.4 million viewers.

The original series was created by writer Kenneth Johnson as a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man television series, which in turn was based upon the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin. Caidin subsequently received a special credit on the original The Bionic Woman series, even though the character of Jaime Sommers was not his creation.

The first mention of a revision of the Bionic Woman series occurred in August 2002 when a story in The Hollywood Reporter indicated that the series would be produced by "Team Todd", sisters Jennifer Todd and Suzanne Todd. The story quoted Suzanne Todd as saying "We are going to take advantage of the fact that what seemed beyond the realm of reality back when they did the original show – some of the things in terms advancement in prosthetics and in replacement limbs – are real in true life now. I think the idea that they exist in the world today and people make use of them – not in a superhero way the way that Jaime does – is going to allow us to do something really interesting and very different than the old show." It was later reported that the USA Network was considering airing the series, with Jennifer Aniston being in consideration for the lead role. However, no series was produced at that time.

Then on October 9, 2006, NBC Universal announced that it was bringing the project back with new producers and reportedly, a radical reworking of the concept. The series would be written by Laeta Kalogridis (creator of the WB series Birds of Prey) and produced by David Eick. Eick commented on the new series saying, "It's a complete reconceptualization of the title. We're using the title as a starting point, and that's all. It's going to be a meaningful departure [from the original]."

On January 3, 2007, The Hollywood Reporter reported that the series one-hour pilot was given an official greenlight by NBC. On May 10, 2007, NBC announced that they had given an early pick-up to Bionic Woman for their fall 2007 schedule.

It remains to be seen if Johnson or the now-deceased Caidin will be credited on the new version of Bionic Woman, or if any references to The Six Million Dollar Man will be made. Johnson has confirmed on his website that he is not involved with the new Bionic Woman series. Since the rights to The Six Million Dollar Man and Cyborg are held by other parties, the characters of Oscar Goldman and Dr. Rudy Wells from the original franchise have been replaced by new creations and it has yet to be seen whether they or the character of Steve Austin will appear in the new series. The new version of Sommers is outfitted with a bionic eye; this is a piece of hardware established by Caidin in his original novel as being given to Austin and used in the subsequent TV series (the original Jaime Sommers did not possess one); thus far, this is the only overt reference to Caidin's original concepts in evidence.

The pilot starred Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, and Mae Whitman, with David Eick, Laeta Kalogridis, Jason Smilovic and Michael Dinner serving as executive producers and writers. Dinner also directed the pilot but exited his post as executive producer in June 2007. Glen Morgan, writer and producer on The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond, and Millennium, joined the production team of Bionic Woman as an executive producer in May. On June 27, 2007, TV Guide reported that Mae Whitman was being replaced in the role of Jaime's sister. An NBC spokesperson confirmed this, stating, "The decision was purely creatively driven. It is very common to change storylines, characters, actors after the initial pilot is shot." Also, the sister character will not be deaf, as reportedly an NBC executive requested that the character's hearing be restored. Lucy Hale was later cast as Whitman's replacement in July 2007. In announcing the recasting, it was confirmed that the deaf trait of the character had been dropped.

Katee Sackhoff also stars in the pilot. It has been reported that she might star on the show in a recurring capacity, alongside her role on Battlestar Galactica, which, like Bionic Woman, is filmed in the Vancouver, British Columbia area. Sackhoff plays a villain named Sarah Corvus, the "original bionic woman". Sackhoff has compared the role to Number Six. Isaiah Washington has also been confirmed to appear in at least five episodes of the series.

Sackhoff is joined by fellow Galactica co-star Aaron Douglas, who plays a blackmailed prison guard.

Bartender Jaime Sommers struggles to make ends meet in San Francisco, California, while serving as a surrogate mom to her teenage sister. Jaime figures that her life couldn't get any more difficult, but she is terribly, terribly wrong. Nearly killed in a horrifying car accident, Jaime is saved by a cutting-edge operation -- performed by her boyfriend, Will Anthros -- that leaves her with advanced bionic prosthetics and implants with extraordinary new strength, among other artificially enhanced gifts. Now, however, Jaime must figure out how best to use her new abilities while embracing her new bionic identity.

The website for the UK newspaper Daily Mail published photographs from the pilot film that reveal that in addition to a bionic ear, Sommers will receive a bionic eye like that of Steve Austin, along with her bionic legs and bionic right arm. Clips from the pilot episode posted on the show's official preview webpage also reveal that she will have a bionic ear and be injected with nanomachines called "anthrocytes" that heal her body at an exponential rate.

- From Wikipedia