Posts with tag Dollhouse
Posted May 17th 2008 10:05AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, Video, Pickups and Renewals, Early Looks, Upfronts, Reality-Free
It looks like someone took the effort to create a Flash player with embedded videos of many of the upcoming new fall shows. Included are clips from
Dollhouse,
Fringe,
Life on Mars,
The Eleventh Hour, Scrubs, The Cleveland Show, The Goode Family (pictured right) as well as several others. I only had a chance to look at some of them. The previews aren't of all the new shows available in the fall (NBC only has one preview), but it's still quite a few. Which ones are missing?
Embedded videos after the jump
Continue reading All the new shows - VIDEOS
Posted May 16th 2008 2:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, TV Squad Lists, Upfronts, Reality-Free
So the networks have given their upfront presentations. It's not easy to pick which shows look the best. Sure, we can base our judgments on what "type" of show we usually like anyway or a producer that's involved or someone who is in the lead. But we're still just basing it on a description (or a snippet from each show). It really comes down to the writing and the execution in general.
Having said all that, here are the shows that look great to me, based on the upfront description, the cast and crew involved, and how my tastes run in general.
Continue reading The five new shows I'm most interested in (based on the upfronts that is)
Posted May 16th 2008 10:02AM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, OpEd, Upfronts, Reality-Free
Writing this post had me pondering how I feel about commercials. In short, they really don't bother me.
Since I write about TV and movies, I have a work-related TV in my office, and I use those few minutes here and there to slam through some work or get caught up on whatever show I'm recapping. In fact, while watching commercial-free shows on
HBO and
Showtime, I actually miss those little interludes.
But, apparently, Fox hasn't been peering through my window, because at
their upfront presentation yesterday morning, they announced their "Remote-Free TV" idea. Two new dramas, J.J. Abrams'
Fringe and Joss Whedon's
Dollhouse,
will air with reduced network commercial breaks -- just five minutes per hour, or about half the usual.
Continue reading Fox trims commercials on Fringe and Dollhouse
Posted May 15th 2008 11:33AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Other Reality Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, 24, American Idol, House, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Prison Break, Bones, King of the Hill, Upfronts, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, New Amsterdam, Reality-Free
FOX announced its plans for the 2008-2009 season today. Here are the highlights:
Returning: The Moment of Truth, So You Think You Can Dance, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, American Idol, America's Most Wanted, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Bones, Cops, Don't Forget the Lyrics!, Hell's Kitchen, House, King of the Hill, Kitchen Nightmares, MADtv, The Moment of Truth, Prison Break, Talkshow with Spike Feresten, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 'Til Death
Out: Back To You, Canterbury's Law, K-Ville, Nashville, New Amsterdam, Next Great American Band, Return of Jezebel James, UnhitchedNew: Sit Down, Shut Up; The Cleveland Show; Dollhouse (Midseason)
; Fringe; Do Not Disturb (formerly
The Inn)
; Secret Millionaire (Midseason)
Schedule and detailed descriptions of the new shows after the jump.
Continue reading The Upfronts: FOX
Posted May 12th 2008 11:03AM by Brett Love
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Boston Legal, Scrubs, Smallville, Supernatural, Pickups and Renewals, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, New Amsterdam, Reality-Free
Ok, it is after midnight here in the Jet City, and as I sit down to bang this post out on my beloved Model M it would appear that my tasty glass of juice is half empty. Maybe I'm just not in the right frame of mind to spin this news in a positive direction that will lead to a 2009 full of Dollhouse win.
Tucked away in a report on various network goings on over at Hollywood Reporter is a little line that says "Dollhouse is expected to launch mid-season." This is me shaking my fist in the general direction of Fox and screaming "Khaaaaan!" Just, because. Doesn't this seem like a road that has been traveled before? It's one that usually leads to a pretty disappointing destination. We haven't seen the finished fall schedule yet, but I would wager that most of us could easily find three or four hours where the network would be better served by inserting Dollhouse. Highlights of what the networks have planned are available after the jump.
Continue reading Dollhouse to midseason... and other network news
Posted Apr 18th 2008 8:04AM by Debra McDuffee
Filed under: Programming, Casting, Reality-Free
I am a true whore for any Whedon universe. I thank the Powers That Be for DVD releases, so I don't have to mourn over the loss of
Buffy,
Angel and
Firefly. Heck, I even watch
Toy Story and salivate just a little.
So you can imagine how excited I am that Joss will have a new series,
Dollhouse, and that glorious new details have been revealed about the series this week.
Earlier today Bob mentioned that Amy Acker (Fred / Ilyria on
Angel) will join Eliza Dushku (
Buffy's Faith) and Harry Lennix (
24 and
The Matrix). So far, an amazing lineup. The fact that I get to see some of my old Whedon universe friends back with Joss' work is very cool.
Continue reading Dollhouse plot details revealed
Posted Apr 17th 2008 3:20PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Angel, Casting, Reality-Free
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse is becoming the "it" show, the show everyone is looking forward to and talking about (unless, of course, you didn't like Buffy The Vampire Slayer or Firefly). We've already told you that Eliza Dushku was signed to star in the show and that Battlestar Galactica's Tahmoh Penikett had joined her (along with Dichen Lachman, Enver Gjokaj, and Fran Kranz from Welcome to the Captain, which I doubt will be back on CBS next season), and now comes word about other cast additions that will thrill fans of a show about a vampire (no, not this one).
Continue reading More Dollhouse casting announced
Posted Mar 27th 2008 12:25PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Battlestar Galactica, Casting
With the final season of
Battlestar Galactica starting up next week (sniff), the actors on that fabulous show need some new work. At least one of them has a pretty sweet gig set up:
Tahmoh Penikett (aka 'Helo') has been cast on Joss Whedon's new pilot.The pilot is called
Dollhouse, and it already stars
Eliza Dushku. The series is about four "dolls" who receive different personalities for each assignment (FBI, CIA? I dunno). Dushku's character begins to override the microchips that supposedly wipe out her memory and figures out who she is. Penikett will play an FBI agent who is obsessed with the
Dollhouse myth and set on finding out the truth.
Continue reading BSG star lands on Joss Whedon's new show
Posted Feb 27th 2008 4:42PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Pickups and Renewals
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.
Continue reading Women's Murder Club creators find new gig
Posted Dec 19th 2007 10:40AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Festivus
It's the Festivus time of year, in which we air our grievances and try not to get hit with the phallic metal pole.
Along with the WGA strike, one of the things I noticed most about this year was the advancement of television-related technologies and how darn cheap things like LCDs and DVRs are getting. It's getting to the point where CRT televisions and VCRs will become exclusive to antique shops. We will pass them buy in the store and tell our children "I used to own one of them. This is before we had cable microchips implanted in our skulls to receive television signals directly into the cerebral cortex." But I digress...
After reviewing my personal television-related desires for this year, I have come up with eight different things I want for the holidays. Hopefully, fortune will favor me and the pole will provide.
Continue reading All Brad T. wants for Festivus
Posted Nov 1st 2007 8:30AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals
Rejoice, fans of Joss! According to the Hollywood Reporter,
he is returning to TV with a new series, starring Eliza Dushku, called Dollhouse. The series is being done by Fox and already has a seven-episode commitment. I've learned from reading other articles that
Angel producer Tim Minear is also involved with the project. Presumably the show will start in Fall 2008, but this is unclear in the article.
The premise sounds interesting and I could see how Joss and crew could easily make it one of those "must-see" shows. There have been several shows attempting to copy his formula (such as
Smallville or
Veronica Mars) but there is only one Joss.
Continue reading Joss Whedon returns to TV and takes Eliza Dushku with him
All the new shows - VIDEOS
The Upfronts: FOX
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