Dollhouse is closing its doors at Fox. Which I totally understand, because Dollhouse sucked! I only watched one episode (same with “V” – I couldn’t even make it through the pilot episode!)
The network has canceled Joss Whedon’s cult fave, which in May beat the odds with a second-season pickup despite low ratings.
The sci-fi series, which is filming episode 11, is expected to finish its 13-episode order.
After some dismal performance in the fall, despite the ratings bumps Dollhouse got from DVR viewing, Fox benched the show for the November sweep after four episodes.
It is not clear if Fox will air the remaining episodes starting Dec. 4 as planned.
Dollhouse stars Eliza Dushku as a DNA-altered woman who gets implanted false memories for various missions and tasks.
Fox already has picked up breakout freshman dramedy “Glee” for a full season, while sophomore drama “Lie to Me” is waiting for an episodic order after receiving an order for three additional scripts last month. Freshman comedy “Brothers” is also still awaiting its fate, but its chances don’t look good.
Get ready ‘Glee’ fans — the Queen of Pop is coming. Madonna has given ‘Glee’ the rights to her entire catalog and an all-Madonna-music episode is in the works for early next year, Entertainment Weekly reports. READ MORE
Posted Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 at 10:10am
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They may not be able to sing in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, but the cast of Fox’s “Glee” will get to strut their stuff during the World Series.
Fox has confirmed that cast members from its new hit musical comedy “Glee” will sing the national anthem during Game 3 of the World Series, currently scheduled for Oct. 31. That game will be either in Los Angeles or Philadelphia, depending on which team ends up in the series against either the Yankees or the Angels.
Fox had to get a green light from Major League Baseball to have the cast sing at the game. Networks often use the World Series and other big sporting events to promote their own entertainment shows, but it is unusual to actually have a cast of a show perform during the game. Of course, few probably have the chops to do it. At least we know they’ll do better than Roseanne Barr did when she butchered the anthem during a San Diego Padres ballgame.
Here’s a sneak peak at next week’s Glee. I can’t tell you how much I love this show! It’s so great! Please tell me you’re all watching it. If you aren’t – maybe now you will!!
Posted Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 9:09am
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Jessica King out after a mystery injury, Comfort Fedoke in!
Less than a week after claiming a spot in the “So You Think You Can Dance” Top 10, hoofer Jessica King has exited the competition following an injury.
King will be replaced by Comfort Fedoke, the season’s most recently eliminated female contestant.
“I would like to say how sorry I am that Jessica cannot continue dancing in the competition at the advice of her doctor,” series producer and judge Nigel Lythgoe says in a statement. “Her full recovery is paramount and will only come with rest. We are fortunate that Comfort has agreed to rejoin the competition and know that under the circumstances she has Jessica’s full support.”
Asked for additional clarification at Monday (July 14) morning Television Critics Association press tour session for the show, Lythgoe was deliberately obscure.
“I’m afraid I can’t be specific about the injury,” Lythgoe says.
He wouldn’t address what the injury was or when it had occurred. He promised that King would give more information on a future show. He would only say that the mystery injury would take up to five weeks to heal.
King had been paired with Will Wingfield for the first leg of the competition. The Top 10 will be swapping partners this week as, for the first time this year, America’s votes will be the sole determining factor in who stays and who goes.
Fox is looking to expand its primetime prison population with a spinoff from “Prison Break.”
Tentatively titled “Prison Break: Cherry Hill,” the potential new series would be set at a women’s prison and center on Molly, a new regular character that will be introduced on “Prison” later this season.
Fox has ordered a script of the possible spinoff, which is being written by “Prison” exec producer Matt Olmstead and co-exec producer Zack Estrin and produced by 20th Century Fox TV.
Molly is an upper-middle-class wife. After suffering a family tragedy at the hands of the Company — the government conspiracy that framed Michael (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) and put them behind bars — she seeks them out at the hellish Panamanian prison Sona in her quest to exact vengeance.
“There is an ironic similarity between Molly and Michael — they’re both emotionally banged-up, both have lost loved ones, and both want the people responsible to pay — so they empathize with each other,” Olmstead said. (Michael’s love interest Sara, played by Sarah Wayne Callies, was killed earlier this season.)
In “Cherry Hill,” which would have the same tone as “Prison,” Molly goes to a women’s detention facility fully accepting the life sentence for her acts of revenge until she is contacted by the government with information that some of her loved ones are alive.
“In a moment’s time, she is transformed from an unapologetic murderer to a motivated woman who would do anything to get out of prison and be with them,” said Olmstead, who is exec producing “Cherry Hill” with Estrin and “Prison” exec producer Dawn Parouse.
