Yep, Dollhouse Is Doomed
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Take a deep breath, and say it with me: DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEDDDD. EW‘s entertainment gossip-monger Michael Ausiello reports that Fox is pulling Dollhouse from November sweeps, and instead will show reruns of House and Bones. Let me repeat that: Fox would rather air reruns of another series than new episodes of Dollhouse.
That’s… that’s not good.
So we might as well say goodbye to Dollhouse after season 2. Fox has already promised it will air all of Dollhouse‘s second season episodes, which is shockingly generous for Fox; Ausiello says that two new eps will run back to back in December to pretty much get it over with as quickly as possible. And creator Joss Whedon has already planned for the season two finale to work as a series finale “just in case.” Now, I’m not going to lose sleep over this, but I did like Dollhouse a lot, and I think it had a lot more potential in its admittedly overcomplicated and bizarre premise. I’ll miss it, but I have to admit Fox certainly gave it a chance (for a change).
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.