Joss Whedon Back on TV

tokenhillbilly writes "Joss Whedon of 'Buffy' and 'Firefly' fame has signed on to do another TV series on Fox starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from 'Buffy'). The series is going to be called Dollhouse, and the story surrounds a group of people 'programmed' to do missions out of a sort of high-tech dorm. '[The series] follows a top-secret world of people programmed with different personalities, abilities and memories depending on their mission. After each assignment -- which can be physical, romantic or even illegal -- the characters have their memories wiped clean, and are sent back to a lab (dubbed the "Dollhouse"). [The] show centers on Dushku's character, Echo, as she slowly begins to develop some self-awareness, which impacts her missions.'"

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Watch out for episode 3

[LiquidCoooled]

In episode 3 Echo downloads a music track and spends the rest of the episode evading the RIAA.

Not wanting to be overly cynical

[fictionpuss]

But how many episodes before this invariably gets canceled?

Glad to see Whedon is doing something new...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's refreshing to see a new series by Joss where the main character is not a girl with superhuman martial art abilities taking on nearly unsurmountable tasks while not being aware of the subtle manipulations of an unknown dark and nefarious nemesis.... Oh wait.

Oh not you don't , asshole

[geekoid]

I am NOT going to watch another show just to see the best, most clever, smartest and funniest person die.

He's like an abused spouse

[Steeltalon]

Sooner or later there needs to be an intervention and his friends and family need to tell him that, no matter what it says, Fox doesn't really love him.

Re:Joss Whedon and Fox

[thittesd0375]

Or it was Universal that made the film and Fox had nothing to do with it.

fuck Nielsen

[Scrameustache]

Just what I was thinking. I like most of Whedon's projects, but the guy sure knows how to whine. I mean, I wish Firefly hadn't been canceled too, but c'mon, it cost a million bucks an episode to make and it was unpopular It wasn't unpopular, it wasn't aired when it was supposed to.
"Firefly, fridays at 8", nope, it's baseball. Worse, it's baseball with an ad at 8:15 for firefly at 8. I kept fox on mute all night while I surfed the web... you know when firefly came on? Me neither, but it was after midnight, because I checked at midnight, and at around 12:10 I realized it was on.
The next week, it wasn't on yet at 12:10, but it came on later (mute, web).
They claim they canceled it because it got bad ratings, but they killed it. On purpose (showed the episodes out of order, including "to be continued" episodes, aired the first episode last, skipped weeks, changed the airtime without any notice, etc.).
So fuck you and your willingness to accept the official story, hook, line and sinker.