Our good friends over at
The Digital Bits had this great bit of "Bionic" news this morning. Here's a quote:
...At a special 25th anniversary screening last night at the American Cinematheque in Hollywood of the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century theatrical film, Universal Studios Home Entertainment VP of Marketing Robert Reed confirmed that both The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman are currently being prepared for DVD release in 2005. Figured you classic TV fans would like to hear that good news!
Wow! We
knew about Bionic Woman, which appears to have been delayed to 2005 in spite of Universal's on-DVD trailers showing that it would be out in 2004. But info about the show it was spun off from has been sparse.
In our very first
heads-up news last May about
The Bionic Woman coming to DVD, we mentioned that there was a new
big-budget film version of
The Six Million Dollar Man - starring Jim Carrey, of all people! - was starting production in Fall 2004, with hopes to bring it to the theaters in 2005. We said at the time that we expected a rights issue with the original series to be worked out in time to tie in a release with the film's debut.
It looks like we predicted correctly, and it's good to know that, however this new film turns out, fans of the classic series will be able to enjoy the original Lee Majors version sometime within the next year or so. Our unending thanks to Bill Hunt and the rest of the staff at The Digital Bits website...you've got me dancing around the room this morning with this terrific news!
