The series revolved around bartender Jaime Sommers (played by Michelle Ryan), who is saved from death after receiving experimental medical implants.

While adjusting to her new cybernetic powers and raising a rebellious younger sister, Jaime agrees to work for the Berkut Group, a quasi-governmental private organization that performed her surgery.

Bartender Jaime Sommers struggles to make ends meet in San Francisco while serving as a surrogate mom to her teenage sister.

Nearly killed in a car accident, Jaime is saved by a cutting-edge operation – performed by her boyfriend, Will Anthros – that repairs her body with cybernetic replacements.

With extraordinary new strength, speed, and other artificially enhanced abilities, Jaime begins working for the Berkut Group, the organization responsible for her operation.

[4][5] In October 2006, NBC Universal announced that it was bringing the project back with new producers, and reportedly a radical reworking of the original concept.

[10] Due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, production of the series was halted in mid-November 2007,[11] and the regular actors were suspended on half-pay for a period of five weeks.

[14] Upon the resolution of the strike, an Associated Press story classified Bionic Woman as being "on the bubble", and predicted that the remaining episodes would not air until the fall of 2008, "if ever".

[15] NBC later published a report regarding initial series renewals, and no announcement was made regarding whether Bionic Woman would return in the fall.

[16] The pilot starred Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, and Mae Whitman.

David Eick, Laeta Kalogridis, Jason Smilovic and Michael Dinner originally served as executive producers and writers.

[28] Katims ran the writer's room until late October, when Sopranos veteran Jason Cahill was hired as the new showrunner.

[48] Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times felt that Bionic Woman was more about "fembot martial arts and slick Matrix-ish special effects" oriented toward young male viewers "[rather] than about character development".

[49] Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle felt that the remake was "a lot darker than the campy original",[50] but said that "trouble lies in the casting and the concept".

However he said that "despite some early uncertainty, Ryan becomes a likable Sommers, leaving only the show's dark tone and relentless pace as potential problems."