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Dollhouse Bad News, Slightly Less Bad News
Dollhouse will go on a break in November during sweeps month, the TV-business jargon time when networks really, really try to get people to watch their shows so they can charge more for ads during them. Then starting in December, Fox will show the remaining episodes they ordered for season 2. In other words, Fox is is pretty much kicking Dollhouse to the curb. Otherwise, they would air the show during the critical time. It's doing well in DVR ratings. And you can watch it free on the Interwebs. They rate those, too, in some arcane manner that still doesn't result in shows getting not canceled. Lessons we learn from this: If Fox really wants a show to do well, they should stop running it on Friday night. They have six other nights. Let this one go. If Joss Whedon really wants a show to do well, he should stop selling them to Fox. There are a zillion cable networks. Let this one go. It's not canceled until it's canceled. In the meantime, watch the show. Download paper dolls and Virtual Echo at the Wiki site. Think naughty thoughts while looking at the Eliza Dushku photo galleries. Admire her acting. Whatever.
Unless you don't like it. Then don't do as much of that.
Comments If Joss really wants a show to do well, he should get better writers and a lead actress that can actually, you know, act. Maybe try to resolve an episode without having to resort to Faith or somebody else engaging in another ridiculous fight. Fox does it to us every time. networks need to quit looking for the big ones and be satisfied with the customers they do have, ones they are pushing away each and every time they cancel a series you get interested in. If they cancel Fringe then the only thing I'll watch on Fox is King of the Hill ABC is really impressing me now with Flash Forward and Eastwick. Eastwick has been a big surprise because I thought I would not like it, but in fact I love it. And Flash Forward is simply amazing. I am really sick of networks taking up scifi and then dropping it before it has time to develop. Real stories take time to tell. It would also help if they left their episodes online longer so those people who tune in and like a show can go back to the beginning and really see what is going on. This trick they think will make people purchase DVD's is not working at all so they might as well give up the ghost and learn to charge their advertisers more for the privledge of programming us! Thinking on that comment about Joss needing to go somewhere other than Fox to do a series, I can't help but think -- are there photographs Joss doesn't want seen in public in Rupert Murdoch's possession?
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