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Whedon Fans Find Themselves with another Gray Hair
Relax folks! / Seth Freilich

Trade News | September 11, 2008 | Comments (12)

elizaimdbit7gc1ub5.jpgYes, production on Joss Whedon’s new Fox show “Dollhouse” has shut down. But chill the fuck out and don’t get your panties in a bunch. They’ve only put the brakes on production for two weeks, and the story being spun is that it’s to give Joss some writing time. Since he directed two of the three episodes in the can, he’s been a busy beaver and hasn’t had the time to tinker with the scripts as much as he’d like. So he requested a two week hiatus and the 20th Century Fox folks said “a’ight.”

Sure, we have no reason to have any faith in Fox at this point, and it certainly wouldn’t be beyond the network to fuck one of its shows several months before it even goes on air. But nevertheless, while I may be naive in this instance, I think this is probably legit. So go pluck that hair that just went gray, grab a beer (what? there’s nothing wrong with cracking a cold one in the morning) and go back to complaining about Rumer Willis.


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Comments

That column was worth it for the Eliza pic alone!

Posted by: TMax at September 11, 2008 10:35 AM

Meh

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at September 11, 2008 10:52 AM

Can you kindly send Eliza over to pluck that gray hair for me? I'd greatly appreciate it. kthxbye

Posted by: The Kilted Yaksman at September 11, 2008 11:03 AM

What's that smell? Sniff, sniff. It smells like....it smells like Fox canceling another Joss Whedon show...sniff sniff...man, that's weird.

Posted by: mark at September 11, 2008 11:51 AM

Maybe I'm just dim on the subject, but could someone explain to me why Whedon doesn't explore OTHER networks for his kick-ass shows? I mean, I'm only guessing that the CW and/or Sci-Fi networks would gladly give him a little room to run?

Posted by: Shane at September 11, 2008 12:43 PM

Sure, we have no reason to have any FAITH in Fox at this point


Ahh.....ahhh...I see what you did there.

Posted by: Kevin Longrie at September 11, 2008 3:43 PM

Why is Whedon still with Fox anyway? Sure they have Heroes and he could possibly guest write on that show, given its premise....but he would be so much more respected at the CW (Buffy was on there anyway) or the SciFi channel. He's just wasting away over there!

Posted by: ph at September 11, 2008 5:28 PM

Fox has Heroes? When did this happen?

Posted by: Sean at September 11, 2008 9:35 PM

Fox has Bizarro Heroes starring Peter Petrelli #4. Me kill cheerleader, me blow up world.

Posted by: Lucas at September 12, 2008 9:00 AM

I think I remember when 'Dollhouse' was first announced and people were all WTF is Joss doing striking a new deal with evil Fox after they screwed him (and us) on 'Firefly', there was something about Eliza Dushku being in a contract with Fox. So if Joss wanted her for his show, he had to deal with Fox.

Could be wrong on that, though.

Posted by: Lizzie (greeneyed fem) at September 12, 2008 10:37 AM

Eliza has a development deal with Fox also.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at September 15, 2008 3:12 AM

...I'm sorry, was there an article there? I was distracted by the picture.

Posted by: Master Mahan at September 15, 2008 10:32 PM