According to the New York Times, NBC has announced part of its fall lineup. Returning series include Friday Night Lights–yeah!!!
True confession, I’m a football junkie. Grew up going to church with Joe Paterno and my Nittany Lions on Saturday and the Steelers on Sunday. When we trained our puppy to stay out of the dining room, the command we taught her was “Off Sides!” My nephew’s first words were “Touch Down!”
So combine the inside life of a high school football team, no bars held when it comes to the realities most kids face these days (sex, drugs, booze, steroids), the small town that lives and breathes football and hunky coach Kyle Chandler and I’m sold!
Kudos to NBC!
Except, the Times went on to dish out this redux nugget:
The drama that is certain to get the most instant recognition is “Bionic Woman,” a 21st-century remake of the 1970s series. This one stars Michelle Ryan as an accident victim remade with bionic parts who is embroiled in a secret government project, which also includes a previous bionic prototype, played by Katee Sackhoff. The series was once thought to be in trouble, but the pilot is now getting some of the strongest favorable reviews inside NBC.
Are they for real? The Bionic Woman is the best they got???? And it’s getting “the strongest, favorable reviews”????
Jeezit, NBC, just drop me a line next time you’re shopping for a new series with kick ass heroines! I’ve got several manuscripts I’d love to show you–and all of my characters are real women, not silicon!
What do you think? Did NBC just set back the women’s movement by twenty years or what?
