Article: `Bionic Woman,' premiering Wednesday on NBC.

Byline: Rick Porter

In Michelle Ryan, NBC has found a potential breakout star for its new series "Bionic Woman." The show also gets a great villainous turn from "Battlestar Galactica's" Katee Sackhoff.

As for the series itself? It has some great promise, but like the bionic parts that make up much of Jaime Sommers' body, it hasn't all been harnessed yet.

This update of the 1970s series follows the same basic template of the earlier "Bionic Woman," with a young woman getting large portions of her body replaced after a horrific accident and going to work for the people who fixed her. In this case, Jaime (Ryan) is a student/bartender who's in a ...

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