I just finished watching the premier of the new Bionic Woman series. It is not airing on TV until September 26th, but Amazon and NBC have a deal going where you can download it for free (along with a few other shows):
Remember the big knock down drag out fight between Apple and NBC? You know, the one that ended with NBC deciding to sell downloads of all its shows through Amazon Unbox instead of iTunes?I was probably more impressed with Amazon's Unbox service than I was with the new show. The episode wasn't bad but it wasn't great either. It seemed like they crammed what should have been a two-hour episode into one.
Yeah, well the upshot of that fight was that NBC and Amazon have struck a deal to let you download the pilot episodes of 4 of their new shows for free. Starting today. A couple of weeks before they premiere on TV. You'll need to install the Amazon Unbox player to watch these videos. And they'll be in Windows Media Video format. But did we mention they're free? Obviously this is a promotional stunt where NBC is trying to drum up interest in their new shows, and Amazon is trying to get attention for its download service. But after suffering through the wasteland that is summer TV, we don't really care.
Here's a trailer:
It is certainly a long cry from the original show with Lindsay Wagner.
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