Find the following stories in USA Weekend Magazine for Jan. 22-24, 2010. You can find USA Weekend Magazine in the Sunday Town Talk.

Bionic Woman premieres tonight on NBC and E! In the wake of bikini-clad Britney bombing and saucy snapshots of High School Musical teen star Vanessa Hudgens, it's nice to be talking about tonight's premiere of the new Bionic Woman TV show.

In the fall of 2000 all the buzz in the television business was about a new drama on CBS on Friday night.

WHEN Michelle Ryan became the Bionic Woman, America rolled out the red carpet. When she came to Scotland to film new BBC drama One Night In Emergency, she got to visit a hospital morgue.

CBS is hearing "Murmurs," teaming with writer Jason Smilovic and producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas for the time-travel drama.

If it's Thursday, this must be the mailbag. . . . Q: I cannot understand why the TV show ''Rules of Engagement'' was not renewed.

This past Sunday, AMC premiered a six-part miniseries, "The Prisoner," a remake of a 1960s series of the same name.

Joss Whedon has become something of a tortured artist since 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' ended its highly successful seven-season run in 2003.

"V," a reimagining of a 1984 science-fiction miniseries, airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.

Morena Baccarin , stunning in a tailored gray suit, has lined up a group of identically clad aides on her spaceship, demanding to know which of them is a traitor.

It's a sad state affairs that ass-kicking females like Xena, the Bionic Woman and Sarah Connor make up maybe 5 percent of those heroes.

American television shows are scheduled to shut down one by one, with the last one turning out its lights on Jan.

The fall season shifted into high gear Wednesday with the first heated showdown between NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice." NBC's sci-fi drama prevailed in the coveted adults 18-49 demo, but ABC won the night overall, noticeably in total viewers and by the slimmest of margins in the demo.

Would you like to see J.R. again? TNT does. In the past few years, there has been a spike in television show remakes.

There's a lot of chatter about the possibility that Comcast will acquire a stake in NBC Universal before long.

Listen up! Jaime Sommers and her super-hearing are coming to Canada. An updated version of the late-70s series The Bionic Woman will begin production in Vancouver in mid-March, canada.com has learned.

WELL, I'm not blind. Regular readers will know that last week I had laser surgery on my eyes to correct vision only slightly better than that of a day-old kitten.

BIONIC WOMAN ITV2, Tuesday, 9pm THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AD MAN BBC4, Sunday, 10pm TAKING ON TRUMP BBC1, Tuesday, 10.35pm I ALWAYS thought I watched TV continuously in the 1970s, from The Six Wives Of Henry VIII at the start of the decade to Give Us A Clue at the end.

Social workers took a lot of flak after the Baby P case, but a government campaign to recruit more is hypocritical.

The green movement has never been hotter. When television recycles, though, it's not nearly as creative.