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I thought this show was dead. What the hell is going on?
Dollhouse renewed?
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LA Times
and MSNBC Business Insider TVbythenumbers
I thought this show was dead. What the hell is going on?
Good. TV is better off with more Eliza Dushku on it.
Deadlinehollywooddaily.com. She just received official word that Dollhouse renewed.
it's sad that the biggest surprise Dollhouse can manage comes from Fox renewing it. IMHO.
too bad they can't just renew firefly instead? that show was far better...
too bad they can't just renew firefly instead? that show was far better...
Yeah, well take what we can get!
Or Futurama!
And we will take what we can get? Ummm... no I will take good TV over bad TV any day.
Which is why you should be excited. Because it's not good tv vs. bad tv. It's good tv vs. no tv.
Under 3M viewers for the season finale and a demo that even the CW would turn up its nose at. Unbelievable. This show is not going to "find an audience." The audience has already sampled and rejected it. It's got nowhere to go but down.
Joss Whedon has photos of Rupert Murdoch in bed with a live boy, dead girl and menagerie of farm animals. That is the only explanation.
Huh? They're not gonna air a test pattern during that time period (tho given the ratings, it might prove competitive.)
The only downside to this is if Fox had something promising that now would not even get a shitty Friday night timeslot as a tryout. But check out the crap they have to choose from. (Oh no, we won't get the show about the horny girl werewolves!) Human Target is the only halfway interesting one, and that's already a lock.
There's no doubt about it, renewing Dollhouse is an act of existential despair. And I thought NBC was sad.
From what I've been hearing Fox wants to continue with the Sci-Fi Fridays lineup. Dollhouse had high online viewing and DVRing.
That gal in your avatar's show did much better in its season finale, on Friday night, on Fox, yet got the axe. And DVRing doesn't count - they all zap the ads! I stand by my farm animals theory.
The continuing fragmentation of the TV marketplace is paying dividends for fans of SFF shows. Some niche shows are being renewed at ratings levels that would have meant sure cancellation just a few years ago.
Now if we could just get a surprise renewal of TTSCC that would be peachy keen.
Unfortunately while TSCC might be the better show and rated, it's not made by Fox. It's made by WB. Fox gets all the $$$ coming out of Dollhouse (since 20th Century Fox Television makes it): online streaming revenue and DVD/BR sales. Dollhouse already has all their sets built, I predict a lot of bottle episodes next season. Also reducing a few cast members (Sierra maybe and Boyd), possibly to just a few times reoccuring rather than in every episode.
