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DVD/Blu-ray Breakdown: October 12, 2010

Mike Eisenberg — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:58:18 +0000

While next week has some of the most exciting home video releases of the year, this week is reasonably entertaining. Specific crowds will be pleased with some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases, but the big picture is relatively weak.

There is only one release from this year that might make a few dollars on the shelves, but even that is questionable. Let’s face it, few people praised Jonah Hex. The other notable titles are mostly re-releases that deserve a spot in your collection.

The following films can be found on DVD and Blu-ray.

NEW RELEASES

Jonah Hex - One of the worst box office flops in recent years will need one hell of a shelf life to make ...

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Dollhouse: Series Finale Review & Discussion [Updated]

Anthony Ocasio — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:38:27 +0000

Well, here it is.

After two seasons and twenty-six episodes Whedon’s latest project, Dollhouse, is coming to an end. For a show that hasn’t even been on the air an entire year, much hullabaloo has been made about this series. From a controversial plot to a slow start involving mediocre storytelling, it’s really no surprise that the show never really found an audience (which was reflected in the ratings). Still, I have no qualms about saying that I’m going to miss Dollhouse.

Sure, the show had its faults and it was nowhere near perfect. I’d describe my relationship with the series as a “rollercoaster,” but that really wouldn’t be accurate as there were many more “downs” than “ups.” To come to be a fan of Dollhouse meant that you had to fight through a lot of drivel in order to ...

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Whedon Reveals Why Dollhouse Failed

Anthony Ocasio — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:51:36 +0000

With the return of Dollhouse only hours away, fans are going in with the knowledge that whatever happens in these final episodes will be it – Dollhouse has been canceled. Sadly, fans are becoming more accustomed with their favorite shows being canceled without warning and without explanation why. Ratings are always an issue, but there’s more. Unfortunately, such information is rarely revealed — until now, that is.

With the typical Whedon openness, Joss steps up and lays it all out on the table about why Dollhouse failed. While most fans are aware that much of the blame for the show’s failure falls upon FOX, Whedon wastes no time throwing himself into the “blame-pit.” (Made that word up myself, blame-pit is like a BBQ-pit, but with less smoke and more frowns)

Whedon on FOX’s response to Dollhouse as a show:

“The ...

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Fox Releases 2009-2010 MidSeason Schedule

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:25:22 +0000

Fox released their midseason schedule for their 2009-2010 season. The list includes shows continuing on and premieres of shows slated for their midseason premiere dates. Below is the complete schedule, but of note are some of our favorite shows.

24 starts its 2-Night / 4-Hour Season Premiere on Sunday January 17th and concludes on Monday the 18th. 24′s regular air day will be Monday’s.

Human Target

The show I’m most looking forward to is Human Target, when it has a series preview on Sunday Jan 17th just before 24. It will premiere on Wednesday, January 20th where it will air regularly.

Glee

Glee kicks it in gear in its time period premiere on Tuesday, April 13th.

Fringe

Fringe’s winter finale is on Feb 4th and will premiere again on April 1st.

Dollhouse

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Are Dollhouse Viral Sites Hinting at a Comic Book?

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:42:04 +0000

As we all know, Fox did not order any more episodes of Dollhouse, and obviously they won’t be ordering a 3rd season of the Joss Whedon show.

But I can’t help but wonder if Joss Whedon might not continue with his world of Dollhouse in his favorite alternate medium, the comics?

He’s taken all his television series to comic form under the Dark Horse label: Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel & Serenity. It’s his vent avenue of choice when he still has something to say about his pet projects but no television studio will let him vent it.

How did I come about pondering the idea of Dollhouse becoming a comic? Besides Joss’s track record?

On November 9th, a viral website or two went live in support of Dollhouse.

There’s the creepy
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Fox Is Letting Dollhouse Go

Bruce Simmons — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:34:35 +0000

The headlines all around the internet are spreading word the word that Fox has canceled Dollhouse. To be more specific, Fox has chosen not to order any more episodes beyond the first 13 episodes of Dollhouse‘s second season, sealing the fate of the Joss Whedon-helmed show.

Despite being overwhelmed in fan-voting websites by The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Fox went with renewing Dollhouse for a 2nd season, ignoring the cry for more Sarah Connor. Of course the popular theory is that Fox feared yet another long-term public lashing from how they handled the much superior Firefly space western of Joss’ years prior.

Fox letting go of Dollhouse isn’t a surprise. The show confused or creeped out fans in the first season with its core premise. However, when the show runners had a chance to capitalize on ...

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How Are Smallville & Dollhouse Doing On Friday Nights?

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:18:31 +0000

Friday nights used to be the graveyard for television programs. If you were scheduled to air on Friday night, you were doomed.

Though that might still generally be the case, modern times are changing perspectives on how ratings are looked at by the advertisers. Now-a-days, ratings are considered by many to be the live viewing plus 7 days to be a growing statistic, and if you really think about it, it might even go longer.

But ads have a certain amount of relevant, useful time to their message. So for now, we’re sticking to 7 days. With that said, it’s interesting to see that of the top 5 shows in the top of the DVR tables, 3 of them are Friday night shows.

1- Smallville on the CW (1.3) (44%)
2- Dollhouse on Fox (1.4) (40%)
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No More Free Hulu?

Kofi Outlaw — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:08:53 +0000

Oh Internet, say it ain’t so!

Hulu – my utopia of free TV online – may soon become another run-of-the-buck paid subscription site (see header image)! (Sigh) It was only a matter of time, really…

Broadcasting & Cable brings us this chilling news, which supposedly originated from the mouth of News Corp. Deputy Chairman Chase Carey, who said during the Onscreen Media Summit that:

“It’s time to start getting paid for broadcast content online…I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. I think what we need to do is deliver that content to consumers in a way where they will appreciate the value. Hulu concurs with that, it needs to evolve to have a meaningful subscription model as part of its business.”

Aw heck, we all knew ...

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FOX Pulls Dollhouse From November Sweeps

Anthony Ocasio — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:29:04 +0000

Any dolls out there looking to have a “treatment” anytime soon had better make haste – that, or risk being stuck with a Swedish accent and the ability to put together an Erector Set blindfolded. Why? FOX has decided to pull Dollhouse off the schedule and put it in the attic. For the month of November anyway.

Sources in the know have stated that the month-long removal is because of November sweeps. The show will return to its Friday night time slot in December with back-to-back episodes.

This does not bode well for the fledgling series as FOX executive Preston Beckman, recently stated that while they’re committed to airing all 13 episodes of the second season, they’ll wait until the complete run is over before they decide on its fate. From the sounds of this, it doesn’t look that ...

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Joss Whedon To Direct An Episode of Glee

Bruce Simmons — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:40:56 +0000

When you think Joss Whedon and musicals, it’s not with dread. His more creative and unique entertainment venues have generated some very popular products. Some examples of those, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode titled “Once More, With Feeling,” and the latest, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

Now, Joss Whedon will be adding Glee to his dossier of credits.

Fox ordered the back 9 episodes of the season of Glee and as a big fan of the show, Joss made sure there was so scheduling conflicts when asked by the studio to direct an episode. In fact, Joss had this to say about the news:

“Hey kids and parents of kids and super-old, like ancestor-old-but-not-dead-yet-type people, just poking my oversized head in to say that the rumors are true… unless something very odd happens in the next few months, I will ...

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FOX To Air All 13 Episodes of Dollhouse

Anthony Ocasio — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:04:00 +0000

With the news of the Dollhouse premiere underperforming in the ratings and the abrupt cancellation of fan favorite shows like Southland, I’ve been watching my txt’s and emails with baited breath expecting to hear about the cancellation of my favorite Friday night show, Dollhouse.

Now, it looks like I can, for the moment, comfortably peruse my inbox as FOX scheduling chief Preston Beckman spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and stated that the network will air all 13 episodes of the (Joss) Whedon-created drama despite their less than stellar ratings.

In an unusual but refreshing move, Beckman lays everything out on the table regarding the struggling show.

“We’re going to run all the episodes. We’re not saying we’re happy with those numbers, or accept them, but we don’t have to overreact. During [November] ...

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Friday Night Ratings: Dollhouse & Smallville

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:17:18 +0000

The overnight ratings numbers are in for the premieres of Dollhouse and Smallville and they’re not as rosy-looking as we’d like. Then again, it is Friday night and our favorite returning shows are up against some heavy hitters.

CBS dominated Friday night with their shoe-in season premiers of Ghost Whisperer and Medium. Both shows raked in over 8 1/2 million viewers.

Even the encore presentation of FlashForward dusted our favored shows by bringing in an additional 4.6 million viewers.

Dollhouse premiered with 2.56 million viewers and Smallville’s 8 o’clock showing reaped 2.5 mil viewers. Not great numbers for sure – especially when they don’t lead into or have decent lead-in shows.

Smallville is the lead-in for America’s Next Top Model‘s encore airing. Two 1/2 hour comedies, Seinfeld and a new comedy, Brothers, are the lead-in ...

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Dollhouse Season 2 Premiere – Ratings & Discussion

Bruce Simmons — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 04:13:50 +0000

Fox took a chance – a huge chance – when they ignored all the social media hype about The Sarah Connor Chronicles and focused on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. At least at first glance, that is what it looks like.

Friday overnight ratings for the premiere episode of the fantasy TV series Dollhouse were rather miserable looking.

Which could make perfect sense if you count on the fact that it’s a Friday night and there were other shows premiering on other networks, but Dollhouse averaged 2.5 million viewers. At least they beat out the encore episode of America’s Next Top Model. LOL.

(Sadly, it also looks like Smallville only brought in 2.5 million viewers for it’s Friday night premiere… but that’s for another article.)

We still have the “Live + 7 Day” ratings to come in, but ...

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Fall 2009 TV: Premiering Tonight – Sept. 25

Anthony Ocasio — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:59:44 +0000

Ghost Whisperer, Law & Order, Smallville, Dollhouse, Medium & Numb3rs are all returning tonight… and then we have the premiere of a FOX comedy with a retired football player?

Friday hasn’t been this popular for television since ABC was in its hay-day with TGIF and Boy Meets World (Feeny!). With seven hours of new and returning programming stuffed into a three hour block, you’re either going to have to make some tough decisions on what to watch, or be a DVR master.

Let’s take a look at tonight’s lineup.

What’s New?

8:00 PM

FOX - Brothers: “Pilot/House Rules & Anniversary”
(one hour special)

Mike Trainor seemingly has it all – he’s a good-looking, wealthy and recently retired NFL player living the high life in New York City. With one phone call from his mom, Adele, Mike’s life changes in an instant. He comes home to Houston ...

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Dollhouse Season 2 Discussion

Bruce Simmons — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:37:36 +0000

Joss Whedon has been making the rounds in various media forms and chatting about the upcoming 2nd season of Dollhouse. I’ll talk touch on some generic issues then a little bit later. Beware, there’s a section marked spoilers, you can pass over that part and onto more good stuff with the skip/jump link I’ve included.

Joss truly didn’t expect to be working on a 2nd season of Dollhouse, but all the non-traditional ratings numbers such as DVR viewing added up and the idea that fans will gravitate to the show in such a way that the revenue stream from DVD sales and such won’t dry up were all factors that nudged Fox towards renewing the show.

Even though some of the writers, Sarah Fain and Elizabeth Craft, that worked on season 1 headed off to work on the ...

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Ray Wise Joins Dollhouse

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:24:13 +0000

Ray Wise will be joining the cast of Dollhouse. I’m pleasantly surprised by this cast addition! Jazzed and surprised.

Ray will be playing Howard, a higher up in the staff of the Dollhouse who has a “huge presence.”

Reaper fans will recognize Wise as Lucifer himself, but I remember Ray from one of my favorite horror franchises, Jeepers Creepers. He was in JC 2 as Jack Taggart Sr. I love those movies. The demon creature in those films ranks right up there with Predator for me.

But don’t forget, Wise was also on Fox’s 24 as Vice President Hal Gardner back in the ’06 season.

I think this is a great addition to the cast of Dollhouse, which premieres Friday, September 25th.

Source: Whedon Info

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Joss Whedon On Dollhouse, Cabin In The Woods & Goners

Bruce Simmons — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:49:44 +0000

Joss Whedon chatted with Sci Fi Wire about a few things, all of which I’ve been looking forward to: Dollhouse, season 2. The Cabin in the Woods. Goners.

Joss said that in the premiere of Dollhouse‘s second season, we’ll get to see Echo cycle through a few imprints during an assignment. I can’t say anymore of what I do know without possible SPOILERS. So we’ll leave it at that.

As for being left alone by Fox to do what he wants with Dollhouse? Joss says he’s afraid to be alone (joke) but that the show is finally more of the collaborative effort between creator and network that it’s supposed to be.

On Alexis Denisof coming to Dollhouse:

Oh, didn’t we mention that before? If you remember, they made note of it at Comic-Con. Alexis Denisof is ...

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Looking Forward To Season 2 Of Dollhouse?

Bruce Simmons — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:59:15 +0000

Now that Joss Whedon has control of Dollhouse on Fox, we aren’t going to get any more stand alone episodes. Instead, the story will start making sense as Joss tells his tale the way he envisioned it.

Season 2 is going to pick up where season 1 left off, in the aftermath of how Alpha left everything. The Dollhouse will continue with business as normal, but the staff will be waiting for the other shoe to drop because they know that Alpha is out there.

It will also be nice to see what Joss does from here on out. Even being on Fridays, my hope for its success is not diminished. In the meantime, enjoy these season 2 promo pictures.

Dollhouse season ...

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Brandon Routh Joins Chuck & Summer Glau Enters The Dollhouse

Rob Keyes — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:17:59 +0000

Today in TV news, two returning shows acquire major new additions for their upcoming seasons. Read on to find out about Brandon Routh in Chuck and Summer Glau in Dollhouse.

Over last few months, there’s been talk about Summer Glau playing a part in the next season of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Although, Whedon shot down a lot of folks’ hope by saying these reports were exaggerated, it now turns out that Summer is in fact joining season 2 of the show that barely survived to get its second season.

All sci-fi fans will know Summer from her role as the troubled girl from Firefly and the bad-ass fembot in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. This time around, she’ll be playing a different sort of character.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the ...

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TV News & Notes: 2009 Fall Schedule, The Office & More

Kofi Outlaw — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:15 +0000

Just a brief update on this Monday: Plan your prime time with the 2009 TV Fall Schedule; Smallville is getting another new guest star; A certain “Foxy” lady might be kicking off SNL this year; Learn how to catch up on all the NBC shows you missed last year (for free!); and speaking of NBC, how about a first-look photo of Jim and Pam getting married on The Office?

And as a bonus (because I love you) I let you know about the government’s “Cash for TV Clunkers” program.

Let’s get to it!

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The Office

So we recently let you Office fans know when you can expect Jim and Pam to walk down the aisle – four episodes into the news season. And now we have the first official wedding photo!

The scene was ...

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