Hey, we finally had our first press tour brouhaha. Well, semi-brouhaha. Well, almost. The producers and lead actors of the new NBC action series "The Bionic Woman" just trooped through the big room to tout their noirish remake of the campy 1970s sci fi show. But they ran into a minor buzz saw, or at least an weed whacker, of criticism over their decision to
hire fired "Grey’s Anatomy" actor Isaiah Washington for a five-episode role. New NBC co-president Ben Silverman grabbed some ink with the
announcement yesterday. By this morning at least a couple of reporters were wondering, why was NBC so happy about gaining the services of an actor many in the gay community view as a bigot despite his apologies?
Washington will play "a mysterious person who is brought into the enigmatic scientific
organization that is responsible for creating the bionics that turn
Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan, ‘EastEnders’) into the Bionic […]
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