io9.com - 2/12/2009
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Joss Whedon has always had a reputation as a feminist creator, thanks to Buffy and Firefly . But Dollhouse , launching Friday, is his most mature feminist (not to mention humanist) statement. Here's our spoiler-free preview. I called our preview "spoiler-free," but I will go so far as to ...
scifiwire.com - 2/15/2009
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scifiwire.com —
Friday night Death Slot indeed. The series premiere
of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse was seen by just 4.7...
million viewers on Friday night and earned a 2.0 preliminary adults 18-49 rating and 6 share, below even the network's modest expectations for ...
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Dollhouse premiere ratings even worse than expected
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FRAK - Battlestar Galactica —
... io9 has previewed the first three episodes of Dollhouse, and they offer a "spoiler-free" look (no actual events are given away, but it describes the overall theme of the show): We've Seen 3 Episodes Of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse! ...
Daily Scan for 02.13.09 - Wachowski's Remake Big Blue, Nolan Undertakes Inception
SciFi Scanner —
... all the directors, and after Speed Racer no less!
• Christopher Nolan's next picture for Warner Bros. won't be a third Batman -- it'll be a scifi action flick called Inception.
• The 11th Doctor, Matthew Smith, has been signed for a three year stint on Doctor Who. More shocking is his pay: An annual salary of £200,000, which doesn't sound too bad, but still seems paltry for such a seminal character.
• io9 previews the first three episodes of Joss Whedon's and Eliza Dushku's new scifi spy series, ...
Dollhouse premiere tonight!
Club Jade —
... io9’s Charlie Jane Anders, after having seen 3 episodes, says: “I’ve already totally fallen in love with this show. I was excited for it before I saw it, and now that I have, I am filled with a fevered desperation to watch a hundred more episodes. I wish I had a half-dozen DVD box sets of this show.” (and disagrees with the point on the interwebs say that the second episode may be better than the first). ...
Alpha and Omega
Asking the Wrong Questions —
... the concept of the dollhouse as yet another attempt by Whedon to deconstruct prostitution, a la Inara in Firefly , but "Echo" makes it clear that the comparisons others were drawing to River were more apt. Like River, Echo is a superhero whose heroism only becomes possible because of her own destruction, which is instigated without her (in Echo's case, full and uncoerced) consent. But whereas Serenity tries to create a disconnect between the profound violation and mutilation inflicted on River and the abilities that it bestowed upon her, thus allowing us to view her ...
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How To Spot A Joss Whedon Show
blog.fph.co.uk 2/7/2009 — Only a week to go before Joss Whedon’s latest show hits US screens, which gives us an excuse to show you this promotional poster, just one of a whole bunch that have been put up on the official website.
And here’s SFX’s handy guide on how to know ...
Joss Talks About Dollhouse and Fox’s Concerns
dashpunk.com 2/13/2009 — Dollhouse premiers Friday and I’m filled with hope for the series. Joss Whedon talked at Comic Con about Dollhouse and some of Fox’s concerns about the series.
Dollhouse: “Ghost” —
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Scattered thoughts on this :
1) The biggest surprise, I think, is the tone, which is very different to all of Whedon’s other TV shows. There are almost no overt jokes (indeed, the most Xander/Wash-like character is described in the casting notes as someone “whose talents exceed ...
Tonight: Enter The Dollhouse —
SF Universe
There’s a little show called Dollhouse debuting that you might have heard a little something about. I don’t know if there has ever been this much discussion of a show before it hits the airwaves. But tonight we will see what the fuss has been about.
With Joss Whedon’s ...
Dollhouse - Joss Whedon Previews —
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This Friday at 9 pm/ET (airing after Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Fox and Buffyverse auteur Joss Whedon welcome you to the Dollhouse. The new sci-fi series stars Eliza Dushku (aka Buffy's Faith) as Echo, a top-secret "active" who is imprinted with personalities and mad skills to ...
Dollhouse Is Stretching Eliza Dushku's Acting Ability [Dollhouse] —
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Eliza Dushku is having the time of her lives, playing Echo, the woman with a million programmable personalities. She talked to reporters about Dollhouse , and we asked her about Joss Whedon 's five-year plan. Spoilers! In Dollhouse , which starts Friday at 9 on Fox, Dushku plays a woman named ...
Dollhouse - Video: The Ultimate Set —
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Courtesy of FOX and HULU: Dollhouse - The Ultimate Set Behind the Scenes|01:50| After the show, they can sell the set as a house. Included in the video are Joss Whedon, production designer Stuart Blatt, Eliza Dushku, and scenes from the new series.
Joss Whedon and Season 9 of Buffy Comic —
dashPunk
Joss Whedon will do another season after completing season eight.
“Oh, we definitely have a season nine in mind,” Whedon said. “We’re slogging our way through season eight. We’ve talked about doing more Serenity comics, and we’ve even talked to Dark Horse ...
Joss Whedon's Dolls will Resolve Your Bi-Curious Feelings [Dollhouse] —
io9
The mind-wiped Dolls of Joss Whedon 's new series Dollhouse will crack safes, attend high school reunions, and fulfill every sexual fantasies. And, as Whedon revealed today, they may also help clients experiment with their sexuality. Whedon has admitted that much of Dollhouse analogizes the ...
First Ten Minutes of Dollhouse Revealed [Dollhouse] —
io9
"Roll it, Clip Man!" Joss Whedon exclaimed as soon as he sat down in the NYCC screening theater. What he and Tahmoh Penikett had to show us was, in a word, hot . Spoilers! So began the first ten or so minutes of the Dollhouse pilot. It starts with a quiet yet heated argument between Echo ...