SCI FI PI

Joyous June finishes off this week with yet another SCI FI premiere - and this time, it's personal.

Well, personal, if your name happens to be Jamie Summers.

And no, Jamie is not some new kind of British Chef. Jamie is a woman. The Bionic Woman.

This Friday night at 8.30pm, it's going to be a whole new take on the classic 70's series that starred Lindsay Wagner. A spinoff of the Bionic Man, it gave the world it's first 'fembots'.

But produced by David Eick, of Battlestar Galactica fame, the formula has been given a bit of sprucing up.

The new Jaime (Jaime as opposed to the old Jamie - go figure) Summers is played by British actress Michelle Ryan (with an American accent - just like BSG's Jamie Bamber!) and it also stars Katee Sackhoff (BSG's Starbuck) as the original Bionic Woman who has gone somewhat bad - to put it mildly - and becomes something of a nemesis to the newly bionified Jamie.

The classic bionic noise is there (just) as is the secret world of spies and organisations too secret and powerful to get proper government funding. Although inflation for two bionic legs, ear, eye and an arm means the bill comes in at $US50 million - something that Jamie's new boss, Jonas Bledsoe (Miguel Ferrer) keeps reminding her of.

It's bionically engrossing stuff, and not to be missed. Make sure you catch it, this Friday night!