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Ditchy McAbandonpants · 05-22-2007, 07:24 AM

Yeah, I noticed this whilst browsing TV.com...this isn't a show that I would normally have any interest in, but I was astonished when I noticed that the lead role had been taken by Michelle Ryan: I doubt that any Americans will have heard of her, but any Brit who's watched BBC One for more than about twenty minutes will instantly recognise her from the hugely popular soap opera EastEnders, on which she played Zoe Slater for five years. Should this show take off, maybe she'll start becoming as well known over there as she has been here since 2000...

From my perspective, this discovery simultaneously begins and ends my interest in this show.

I suppose it's nice seeing well-known British faces making it big in the US (like Hugh Laurie on House), but that's tempered by the fact that I think that EastEnders is frankly pants, and that I find Michelle Ryan to be an incredibly shrill and irritating actress; I wouldn't be able to watch the show out of fear that she'd lapse back into her horribly overwrought Cock-er-nee accent and start screeching "YOU AIN'T MY MUVVA!!!" at other cast members. Still, at least Bionic Woman sounds like it'll have more credible plotting than EastEnders, who a couple of years ago tried to boost ratings by reintroducing a character WHO'D BEEN DEAD FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS...or at least they did until audiences got bored of him, at which point they killed him off again. Uh, and then exhumed him. On the day of his daughter's wedding. To her own step-brother.

So, uh, yeah, that's Michelle Ryan's pedigree for you.

Who knows, maybe ol' Zoe Slater will prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.

05-22-2007, 07:24 AM	#2
Ditchy McAbandonpants At Home Sorry, you must have me confused with some other Harrier jet. Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Here, there and everywhere Posts: 191	Yeah, I noticed this whilst browsing TV.com...this isn't a show that I would normally have any interest in, but I was astonished when I noticed that the lead role had been taken by Michelle Ryan: I doubt that any Americans will have heard of her, but any Brit who's watched BBC One for more than about twenty minutes will instantly recognise her from the hugely popular soap opera EastEnders, on which she played Zoe Slater for five years. Should this show take off, maybe she'll start becoming as well known over there as she has been here since 2000... From my perspective, this discovery simultaneously begins and ends my interest in this show. I suppose it's nice seeing well-known British faces making it big in the US (like Hugh Laurie on House), but that's tempered by the fact that I think that EastEnders is frankly pants, and that I find Michelle Ryan to be an incredibly shrill and irritating actress; I wouldn't be able to watch the show out of fear that she'd lapse back into her horribly overwrought Cock-er-nee accent and start screeching "YOU AIN'T MY MUVVA!!!" at other cast members. Still, at least Bionic Woman sounds like it'll have more credible plotting than EastEnders, who a couple of years ago tried to boost ratings by reintroducing a character WHO'D BEEN DEAD FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS...or at least they did until audiences got bored of him, at which point they killed him off again. Uh, and then exhumed him. On the day of his daughter's wedding. To her own step-brother. So, uh, yeah, that's Michelle Ryan's pedigree for you. Who knows, maybe ol' Zoe Slater will prove me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath. __________________ Well, well, well; if it isn't... Ditchy McAbandonpants "Is not dead, despite all external indications suggesting otherwise."