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[...] I say last week that Fringe will probably be renewed? Fringe has been the number one performing (scripted) drama of the season for Fox and they’ve [...]

As for Dollhouse, the problem is, there’s ambiguity everywhere, there’s no clear deinition of good or bad. The people running the Dollhouse are meant to be the bad guys and yet are painted as good in a lot of ways. And as for Alpha, yes a little knife crazy he is, but it does seem his motives are altruistic, so him succeeding in bringing the Dollhouse down may be what we want. Guess we have till this Friday to see what Joss does.

I’ll be very interested in getting the DVD when it’s out for the 13th episode.

I also want Castle to come back because that show is hilariously off the wall at times. At some points though, they try to joke about death and such and that’s not always a good thing, but I like that it’s trying to push the envelope. Burn Notice is a show I got hooked onto. It reminds me sort of like The A-Team. . . sort of. Another show I’d love to see come back is A&E’s The Beast. The chances of that happening though are probably pretty slim. I would like to see the Barker/Red Gauntlet story resolved. And I want to see Ellis not be a bitch when it comes to telling the girl he likes that he works for the FBI. . . I mean, I understand you don’t want to give away your cover and such, but why not just tell her you work for a government agency?

Those are my opinions for television as of now. I could come back and talk more about Dollhouse later, haha.

Thanks for the info.

Don’t know how far behind we were to the air date of that in the U.S but cast your mind back to 1999, Buffy, season 4 – episode 8 (Pangs) shown on sky 1 at 8pm, Angel goes to Sunnydale to help Buffy but she doesn’t know it, when she finds out she’s angry and storms of to L.A.

Roll on Angel Season 1, episode 8 (I Will Remember You)shown after at 9pm, sure it was a Thursday night, Buffy’s in that episode.

Once season 7 finished Sky 1 repeated the whole lot again as they do with most of sci fi fantasy shows.

Maybe I’m mistaken about that too.

When Angel started on Sky1 it was in sync with Buffy, it fact I do recall it was aired straight after Buffy.

Those who could only get BBC & CH4 were watching it out of sync.

I think I am done with Heroes. The problem is that pretty much any conflict could more or less be resolved more easily if the Haitian just stepped in and nullified everybody’s powers or even if Hiro just stopped time. Heroes manages to find the dumbest ways to resolve conflicts.

But DVR viewers don’t bring money to the advertisers. We pesky time-shifted viewers tend to skip those insidious interruptions to our alternate mind set, albeit, no matter how short (40 something minutes) it may be.

Bruce (Can someone tell me why the heck I’m signing my comments? Interesting habit.)

DVR is certainly an issue. I know that DVR ratings for Dollhouse are pretty decent, but aren’t generaly taken into account. I live in the UK, so I personally can’t contribute to the Dollhouse ratings anyway (having to find… other means to watch it), but essentially, it’s a decent show (now) by Whedon, and if it’s being shown on a night where people are generally going to be out, that means DVR will likely be big for a good quality show.

I think, we, the sci-fi fan are smarter than the average bear… because we don’t get “persuaded” into blathering all over ourselves to buy the latest cool product being advertised in our face.

That and DVR’s hurt ratings / advert money too, unfortunately.

The outcry of a few million don’t tip the scales against 20+ million, unfortunately.

Advertisers control what stays and what dies. They pay the bills and they pay attention to the demographics that control their wallet.

It sucks for the fans of honest quality programming because Joe Plumber wants to come home and watch mice trapped in houses or a live version of Gilligan’s Island.

In other words, we’re doomed to single and double season DVD collections of good programming.

Um… the old Knight Rider right? The original show?

Plus, the new Knight Rider was already canceled, so there’s no real point in a big UK station picking it up.

Fingers crossed for Chuck. I really love that show.

Finger and toes crossed for Dollhouse. I absolutely love that show.