Joss Whedon Back on TV

tokenhillbilly writes "Joss Whedon of 'Buffy' and 'Firefly' fame has signed on to do another TV series on Fox starring Eliza Dushku (Faith from 'Buffy'). The series is going to be called Dollhouse, and the story surrounds a group of people 'programmed' to do missions out of a sort of high-tech dorm. '[The series] follows a top-secret world of people programmed with different personalities, abilities and memories depending on their mission. After each assignment -- which can be physical, romantic or even illegal -- the characters have their memories wiped clean, and are sent back to a lab (dubbed the "Dollhouse"). [The] show centers on Dushku's character, Echo, as she slowly begins to develop some self-awareness, which impacts her missions.'"

Re:Joss Whedon and Fox

[thittesd0375]

Or it was Universal that made the film and Fox had nothing to do with it.

This sounds like All My Sins Remembered

[Elfich47]

The series sounds like All My sins remembered [amazon.com] by Joe Haldeman [wikipedia.org]. An average citizen is conditioned through hypnotherapy to assume given roles for a time period until the mission is over. After that he returns to base, debriefs and is assigned another mission. Eventually the brain cannot take the strain of repeated wipes and reprogramming and by the end when he is not on mission he is a schizophrenic stew of previous programmed personalities (thus - All my sins remembered).

Re:Let's hope it's cancelled after 15 eps

[anagama]

First of all, he had nothing to do with the original Buffy movie

Writer [imdb.com].

Don't get me wrong, I have the Buffy, Angel, and Firefly boxed sets and enjoy them all, but it is not accurate to say that Joss wasn't involved in the Buffy movie.

Re:Cooool...

[Anonymous Coward]

no it's Joe 90, but not with puppets

"For nine-year-old Joe can do anything, thanks to a fabulous electronic device which can transfer the brain patterns of those who are the greatest experts in their field. When he receives these brain patterns, Joe, with the aid of a special pair of glasses which have built-in electrodes, becomes a man in thought and deed... can become the greatest of all astronauts, a dare-devil pilot, an ace motorist, a brilliant brain surgeon or whatever else may be necessary for him as the most daring of all agents attached to the World Intelligence Network... yet he still looks what he really is - a normal, healthy schoolboy. Every assignment brings new excitement, new hazards and unexpected situations - for JOE 90 and viewers alike!"

It's time to play the music...

[Scrameustache]

Angel was just as painful, but tried to take itself way too seriously.

Too seriously? Smile time! [youtube.com]

fuck Nielsen

[Scrameustache]

Just what I was thinking. I like most of Whedon's projects, but the guy sure knows how to whine. I mean, I wish Firefly hadn't been canceled too, but c'mon, it cost a million bucks an episode to make and it was unpopular

It wasn't unpopular, it wasn't aired when it was supposed to.
"Firefly, fridays at 8", nope, it's baseball. Worse, it's baseball with an ad at 8:15 for firefly at 8. I kept fox on mute all night while I surfed the web... you know when firefly came on? Me neither, but it was after midnight, because I checked at midnight, and at around 12:10 I realized it was on.
The next week, it wasn't on yet at 12:10, but it came on later (mute, web).
They claim they canceled it because it got bad ratings, but they killed it. On purpose (showed the episodes out of order, including "to be continued" episodes, aired the first episode last, skipped weeks, changed the airtime without any notice, etc.).
So fuck you and your willingness to accept the official story, hook, line and sinker.

Why he may have gone back

[cybergremlin]

If I remember correctly (say a 50/50 chance at best) Joss had signed a development deal with Fox and owed them 2 more series after Firefly. If so then if he wanted to do TV he might have to go back to FOX (right of first refusal perhaps).

Yes he does have good reson to be wary. They put his baby in the Fri-8pm time slot of death, showed it out of order, pre empted or moved it so often you never know when it was on, then canned it.

Fox has earned a reputation for quickly canceling genre shows. A lot of this seems to stem from a tendancy to greenlight plenty of unusual fare and then cancel it if it does not expode quikly, both the good (Firefly, Brimstone) and the "what were they thinking?" (Drive, lots of things no one remembers). Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.

Of course with the writers stike everything is on hold, and after the colapse of "Heros" clones it may never see daylight at all.

Re:Let me guess

[lennier1]

Dont forget "Universal Soldier".