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David Eick, Executive Producer of the upcoming Bionic Woman remake, down played rumors that there problems on the set after co-Executive Producer Glen Morgan abruptly quit the show last week.

“One of the things I learned very early in my career when I was running a television company for Sam Raimi was that in the genre, so to speak—and there’s horror, science fiction, fantasy and superhero—there are so many permutations of what you’re doing and, moreover, what you’re not doing, and people bring their own perspective to that,” said Eick on a Sept. 7th conference call. “Some people come in thinking, ‘Well, if it’s got someone with super strength, it must mean it has to be really kind of funny and kooky,’ and other people come in and said, ‘Well, we’ve got someone with a tortured soul who’s had this thing perpetrated on her, then it’s got to be very dark and twisted.’ Other people might say, ‘Well, it should be very female and soft.’”

Eick never spoke specifically about the departure of Morgan but continued to add, “Finding the people—not just people who get it, but defining what the ‘it’ is that you want everyone to get— … is its own sort of separate endurance test. I think this is really no different from, frankly, most of the genre shows I’ve done in that there’s a lot of turnover early in the process. It’s just the way it works.”

Bionic Woman premieres Sept. 26 and will air on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.