Recycling every vintage TV superhero cliche with a twist of modern paranoia, this adaptation of a little-known comic book removes the title character's bustier and bandages and goes for an updated ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Variety reports that Sci Fi Channel has greenlit production on a two-hour pilot for Painkiller Jane, a female-centered action-hero series: NBC Universal TV Studios will produce the project — which ...

Already adapted from the comicbook into a 2005 TV movie, Sci Fi resurrects "Painkiller Jane" with a new lead in Kristanna Loken, but nothing here is an improvement. The show's mired in stiff dialogue, ...