More “New” Shows

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After reading the info on the American IT Crowd, I foolishly decided to look at the premise of the other shows for NBC this season… it’s enough to make the blood curdle (These are also all from zap2it):

The Bionic Woman

PREMISE
Struggling to make ends meet as a bartender while serving as a surrogate mom to her teenage sister, Jaime Sommers figures that her life couldn’t get any more difficult. She is terribly, terribly wrong. Nearly killed in a horrifying car accident, Jamie is saved by a cutting-edge operation — performed by her boyfriend, Will — that leaves her with extraordinary new strength, among other artificially enhanced gifts. Now, however, Jamie must figure out how best to utilize her new abilities while embracing her new bionic identity. Jonas is Will’s boss, while Ruth is Jonas’ second-in-command and Jae is the specialized operations leader.

Chuck

PREMISE
You know all those warnings about never opening an e-mail if you don’t know who sent it? Computer geek Chuck Bartowski learns that lesson the hard way when he opens an e-mail that has been subliminally encoded with vital government secrets, triggering a massive download of critical information into his brain. With assassins and international terrorists eager to nab Chuck’s noggin, it falls to Maj. John Casey and his partner, CIA agent Sarah Walker, to protect the U.S. Government’s newest and most unlikely secret agent. At least Chuck can rely on best buddy Morgan and his understanding sister, Ellie

Journeyman

PREMISE
Commuting takes on a whole new meaning for San Francisco newspaper reporter Dan Vasser, who unexpectedly finds himself traveling through time to change people’s lives. That’s the good news. The bad news is, he has to explain these sudden and unpredictable disappearances to his family and colleagues — and finding himself reunited with a long-lost fiancee can’t be good for his marriage. Or can it?

I shan’t even bother to mention “The Singing Bee” a reality-TV Karaoke program.

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2 thoughts on “More “New” Shows”

  1. Hmmm. The first one sounds vaguely familiar… But, less directly, so do the others.

    We have “terrorists eager to nab Chuck’s noggin”. I think 24 has a lot to answer for. It’s not easy to get more extreme, but that ain’t going to stop people trying…

    And finally, the new Quantum Leap? Perhaps crossed with The Time Traveller’s Wife?

  2. Hmmm. The first one sounds vaguely familiar… But, less directly, so do the others.

    We have “terrorists eager to nab Chuck’s noggin”. I think 24 has a lot to answer for. It’s not easy to get more extreme, but that ain’t going to stop people trying…

    And finally, the new Quantum Leap? Perhaps crossed with The Time Traveller’s Wife?

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