"Bionic Woman" Gets New Boss Man; Sci Fi Peaks into "Warehouse"

Let's be honest: we've all heard the drama behind the scenes on the new incarnation of Bionic Woman this season, what with the unexpected departure of Glen Morgan (along with director/executive producer Michael Dinner) and the hiring last month of Friday Night Lights showrunner Jason Katims as a consultant.

The Hollywood Reporter is now indicating that Universal Media Studios has now brought in Jason Cahill to serve as showrunner on Bionic Woman. The move could help to create some stability in the writers' room as Katims had been pulling twice his normal workload, overseeing showrunning duties on both Bionic and Friday Night Lights.

Recently, Cahill was a co-executive producer on CBS' primetime soap Cane and won a WGA Award for his work on The Sopranos.

Bionic Woman, which airs Wednesdays at 9 pm, has not yet been picked up for a full season run.

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In other science fiction TV news, Sci Fi has given the greenlight to two-hour dramedy pilot Warehouse 13.

Project revolves around two FBI agents--a man and a woman--who, after rescuing the president of the United States from harm, are awarded a promotion of sorts to Warehouse 13, a top-secret government installation in South Dakota that acts as a vault for supernatural objects and artifacts that the government has collected; our agents, who swiftly develop some feelings for one another, are now assigned to locate missing objects and investigate new ones.

Warehouse 13, described as "part X-Files, part Raiders of the Lost Ark, and part Moonlighting," comes from such creators as Rockne O'Bannon (Farscape), Jane Espenson (Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and D. Brent Mote. (Note to BSG fans: Ronald D. Moore, who was originally attached, has unfortunately dropped out of the project.)

Pilot, to be shot as a two-hour backdoor, is being targeted for a summer launch. Move comes just a day after Sci Fi announced that it had ordered a fifth season of Stargate Atlantis.