Bleakest Show Ever

This is a straight cutnpaste job - I'm not even going to take the time to rework it.

Bionic Woman executive producer David Eick told SCI FI Wire that he's working on a pilot script for a proposed TV series based on Children of Men, P.D. James' SF novel, which also inspired Alfonso Cuaron's 2006 film of the same name.

"It's really taking root more in the origins of the novels in that it will focus on the cultural movement in which young people become the society's utter focus," Eick (Battlestar Galactica) said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York on March 18. "Much like our culture, whenever Lindsay Lohan does something [and] it becomes the headline of every news show, it's about how, when you don't have a responsibility to the next generation and you're free to do whatever you want, where do you draw the line?"

Eick added that Children of Men will question how society defines responsibility, freedom and a sense of values when it doesn't necessarily believe humans will survive as a species. "So it's a very compelling, I think, human question that science fiction has always explored extremely provocatively," he said. "It's not really a war show like the movie was. It's more an exploration of that issue."

Eick is writing Children of Men now, even as he closes out SCI FI Channel's original series Battlestar Galactica and prepares for production on SCI FI's recently green-lighted prequel series Caprica. Eick's Bionic, meanwhile, has been canceled by NBC.

Speaking of canceled - what's the over under on this thing making it past three episodes?

I mean, yeah, I dug this movie. It haunted me.
But to sit through an hour each week of a world that has no future? And then skip through the ads for Pampers and Tide? I really don't see the commercial appeal to this - and am scratching my head on the green light here. I had just finished The Road by Cormack McCarthy and then watched this. What a mind job! Bleak bleak bleak! Something is going on in the zeitgeist gang.

And another thing, that Bionic Woman - I couldn't get past the first five minutes. Instant delete off the TiVo.