Just last week, TV Squad reported that the creators and executive producers of the ABC drama Women's Murder Club, Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft, were replaced by Robert Nathan. Before you could say "Holy homicide, Batman," the two writers were quickly offered jobs from their old boss, Joss "Firefly" Whedon. Whedon has a development deal with Fox for a project called Dollhouse. He contacted Fain and Craft because he knew their work from Angel where they were co-story editors.According to Fain, Whedon emailed as soon as the word got out that they were available. "Joss said 'I'm really sorry - and is it too soon to ask you to work on Dollhouse?" Getting an offer so quickly was a real relief to the ladies. Said Craft, "It cushioned the blow."
The show is set to begin production in six weeks with Fain and Craft, Whedon's first hires to the writing staff. Fox has ordered seven episodes of Dollhouse. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Faith, Eliza Dushku, is headlining the sci-fi drama.
Dushku's character on Dollhouse is called Echo. "She's a member of a group of men and women who are imprinted with different personalities for different assignments. In between tasks they are mind-wiped, living like children in Dollhouse, a futuristic dorm/lab. They have no memories of their previous lives, until Echo begins to try to find out who she was."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-27-2008 @ 4:59PM
C C said...
Although I'm not a major fan of Joss Whedon's work, I have a lot of respect for how loyal he is to the writers who have worked under him over the years-unlike some other producers in the tv biz.
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2-27-2008 @ 5:21PM
keithnl said...
I'm really looking forward to Joss Whedons new show on fox, not so much its eventual cancellation.
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2-27-2008 @ 6:03PM
Boomstick said...
Sounds very interesting. But wasn't this already done? Amnesiac crime solving detective tries to find clues to his/her past life? Can't think of the show but it sounds very familiar.
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2-27-2008 @ 7:36PM
Joey Geraci said...
Not so much crime-solving, as goverment spy, and not so much amnesiac, as different personalities that the character doesn't remember because they were imprinted with the personalities in the first place. Sure, there are shades of past TV series here, as there should be with any good concept.
I am so looking forward to this, and glad that Dollhouse wasn't one of the projects that was axed because of the strike.
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2-28-2008 @ 3:59AM
gooby said...
I'm really looking forward to Whedon's new show. And it's SO Whedon to do something like this, he seems like a geniuinely great guy who does the right thing and treats people he works with well.
Hope they give Dollhouse more of a chance to get its viewership than Firefly which was out the door before it even started properly.
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