Looks like Joss Whedon is planning a new series with Eliza Dushku tentatively titled Dollhouse.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117975136.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

I liked Buffy and Firefly and the premise sounds similar to the anime series Gunslinger Girl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger_girl) and a bit like Gantz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GANTZ), which were both great (Gunslinger Girl in particular is excellent and one of my favorites), so I'm excited to see how he'll play out the concept.

Interesting. I'll have to try and remember to catch it. Firefly was SO ROBBED. That was too good of a series to have been axed. Dollhouse sounds like a sissy name, but the premise sounds awesome. Hopefully, if it's good, it'll last more than 14 episodes.

I see that once again, a bad-ass-but-hot chick is going to be the lead character. :p In the Serenity commentary he mentioned that he apparently has a thing for having overpowered young girls as his main characters, but that he can't help it and really doesn't care to either.

Hopefully it won't get canned and will eventually make it to Oz. Sounds like a decent premise for a show.

I'm still yet to see Firefly. We have it on dvd though so one day I will.

crazy, I'm in the middle of watching a buffy episode right now. this is odd though, I recall joss whedon saying something about never working with fox again after they cancelled...firefly? I don't remember the name but I remember the interview.

crazy, I'm in the middle of watching a buffy episode right now. this is odd though, I recall joss whedon saying something about never working with fox again after they cancelled...firefly? I don't remember the name but I remember the interview.

My guess is that Fox was pretty apologetic to him after they realized what they did to Firefly. How many shows go 14 episodes before cancellation and then turn into a multi-million copy DVD set and a major motion picture that's had 2 DVD releases and several books written about it?

They realize they screwed up big time on that one.

Archie, just set aside the 2 hours for the pilot of Firefly. If you don't end up watching the rest of the series within a week, I'll be shocked.

My guess is that Fox was pretty apologetic to him after they realized what they did to Firefly. How many shows go 14 episodes before cancellation and then turn into a multi-million copy DVD set and a major motion picture that's had 2 DVD releases and several books written about it?

They realize they screwed up big time on that one.
Well, maybe. Perhaps, without the increased devotion of the fans and corresponding attention, as a result of cancellation, it would have never had the success that it did. I mean we'd like to think it would have eventually been more successful in life than in death, but there's no reason to assume that.

Dollhouse sounds like a sissy name, but the premise sounds awesome.

And "Buffy" and "Angel" sound so mean and tough :D

And "Buffy" and "Angel" sound so mean and tough :D

Never watched those. :p

Well, maybe. Perhaps, without the increased devotion of the fans and corresponding attention, as a result of cancellation, it would have never had the success that it did. I mean we'd like to think it would have eventually been more successful in life than in death, but there's no reason to assume that.

May be true. I know I didn't hear about it when it was on. (not hard to do, they kept changing the schedule and pre-empting it, etc.) But if I had bought the DVD set and thought it sucked, then I wouldn't rave about it, see the movie, buy the Serenity DVD, etc.

So there is some success coming from it being canceled, but if it sucked, it still wouldn't have caught on like it did.

Part of what killed Firefly was the screwed up way it was aired. They started with like the supposed second episode, only airing the initial 2 hour episode later in the season. Then the show got preempted by baseball several times making it hard to develop viewing habits.

Plus, it was marketed very oddly.

I doubt it would have ever been mainstream, but it was good after you could figure out what was going on several episodes in.

Hope this works out

Already canned. Or at least, "indefinitely postponed" due to the writers strike.

Hopefully, it will come back at some point, but once these development projects get scrambled, it can be tough to get them back together as people take on other jobs.

Already canned. Or at least, "indefinitely postponed" due to the writers strike.

Hopefully, it will come back at some point, but once these development projects get scrambled, it can be tough to get them back together as people take on other jobs.

That new Heroes Origins thing is canned for the time being, too :bang:

I bet it got George R R Martin's HBO series, too. :(

Already canned. Or at least, "indefinitely postponed" due to the writers strike.
Yeah.

http://www.dollverse.com/
http://whedonesque.com/

Hopefully, it will come back at some point, but once these development projects get scrambled, it can be tough to get them back together as people take on other jobs.
However, all the new shows for the next year or longer are going to be in that same boat. I don't think getting people back together would be the hard part. Considering that only Whedon, Minear, and Dushku are supposedly attached to the project at this time and neither Whedon or Minear can become attached to new productions as writers, as long as Dushku doesn't get obligated long-term, that whole group is likely still going to be available when this finishes. As long as you have the writers, producer/director, and main star, the rest of the staff is pretty expendable. I think, if there's going to be a problem, it's much more likely that the network will lose interest.

Yay unions. :rolleyes:

As I understand it, they also re-shot the 11th episode of Heroes to go from being a mid-season cliffhanger to a season finale because if the strike isn't resolved by year end, there won't really be time to get everything back together, get scripts, production, shoot and edit to finish out a season by summer.

Never watched those. :p

aww wtf man buffy and angel both ruled.

Firefly had the most awesome intro song ever...esp the part that goes like
"...you can't take the sky from me..." :nod: