Lee, Bionic Add Cast Members
Jamie Kennedy has been tapped to star opposite Lee Majors in Fox's comedy pilot Me & Lee?, which lampoons Majors' The Six Million Dollar Man, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Meanwhile, Miguel Ferrer and Chris Bowers have been tapped to co-star in NBC's drama pilot The Bionic Woman, a reimagination of the 1970s series that was a spinoff of Six Million, from David Eick, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica.
Me & Lee?, from Lionsgate, centers on a guy (Kennedy) with chronic back pain who gets more than he bargained for when he undergoes "bionic" back surgery in a secret lab run by actor Lee Majors (playing himself) in the basement of his Beverly Hills mansion. Majors built the lab after becoming obsessed with bionics after Man went off the air.
Bionic Woman, from NBC Universal TV, centers on Jamie Sommers (Michelle Ryan), a bright woman who is transformed into a technological wonder with $50 million worth of bionic components implanted in her body. Ferrer will play the ruthless leader of the secret government agency that turned Sommers into a bionic woman. Bowers will play Sommers' supportive boyfriend.
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