The first quarter of the new TV season is coming to a close. With their biggest episodes running this month for sweeps, we can now look forward to weeks of reruns for the rest of 09.
But before they go, here’s a quick look at where I stand with the current crop of futuristic, non-realistic, ghostly, ghastly, makes-you-wonder, shows on TV.
Read Part One here.
Dollhouse
What can I say about this one? I’d like to rename it Whedon’s Folly as I feel that the Joss-meister got too wrapped up in his own fantasy and forgot he had an audience to feed.
Dollhouse started off …read more

Fringe is off tonight because of the baseball game (local programming on the West Coast).
Vampire Diaries and Supernatural are both airing repeats. Night of the Comet and Sympathy for the Devil.
The big scheduling news comes from Michael Ausiello once again, who is reporting that Dollhouse will be pulled during November sweeps. The series is expected to return in December but let’s face it folks, this isn’t a good sign.
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Dollhouse: Instinct
Friday, Oct. 2 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX
When Echo is imprinted as a mother with a newborn baby, she takes too strongly to motherhood as a result of Topher’s modifications. Meanwhile, Adelle pays November a visit, and Perrin ramps up his investigation into the Rossum Corporation in the “Instinct” episode of DOLLHOUSE.
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Dollhouse’s Echo would like to pay you a visit. She’ll walk across your desktop and demonstrate her various personas so you can pick the one you like best — you know, so when you have a couple of million dollars you can rent her out for the day.  I also hear that if you leave her running loose, she’ll display her “special talents.” Hmm….
To make this work, though, you’ve got to have a webcam, which I don’t have, so I can’t test it. What you need to do is visit Virtual Echo and download and print a glyph card. Aim …read more

Dollhouse is once again open for business and creator Joss Whedon sat down with reporters to talk about lives, the loves, and the cool guest stars coming up in the new season.  Dollhouse returns to Fox on September 25 at 9:00.
Dollhouse was pretty close to not getting that second season pick-up. Why do you think Fox changed their minds?
Joss: I think it’s the nature of the business and the nature of the fan base.  The nature of the fan base is they’re in it for the long haul, and they’re nurturing, and they’re intense about it and they will see …read more

Joss Whedon talked with reporters about Dollhouse which returns to Fox on September 25th. Here are a few quick quotes:
On how will Echo come into her own:
Joss: Basically through force of will. She did have all those personalities dumped into her at once and that’s starting to affect her. Instead of being at sea, she’s much more driven. She has a mission she understands now which is to get back to her personality.
On how much the fans influenced the decision to bring the show back:
Joss: I think it’s the nature of the fan base, they’re in it for the long …read more

The one nice thing about genre actors is they fit so nicely into multiple projects. Once a Whedonite – always a Whedonite – and this time it’s Firefly’s Summer Glau who’s heading into the Dollhouse.
Summer always seemed like a natural for this series since she does that “blank slate” look so well but obviously her role on Sarah Connor Chronicles kept that from happening. Now, with that series behind her, she is taking on the roll of Bennett a “Dollhouse employee who shares a past with Echo.”
As this story hit the airwaves yesterday, I was surprised to see a lot …read more

Echo (Eliza Dushku) and her new husband (guest star Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica) have a dangerous honeymoon in the Dollhouse season premiere episode “Vows” airing Friday, Sept. 25 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
Bamber is just one of a half dozen interesting guest stars already on tap for this season. We’ll also see Buffy’s Alexis Denisoff , Keith Carradine and Battlestar’s Michael Hogan. There’s even a rumor that Jonathan Frakes is directing an episode. Want the full scoop, check out Maureen Ryan’s look at Dollhouse over at The Chicago Tribune.
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Now this I like. The colors. The style. But is it me or is her gun hand suggestively placed on purpose. . .

More and more, Twitter is becoming the place to pick up on celebrity news.
Today, Alyson Hannigan made a ripple in the pond with this tweet about husband Alexis Denisoff.
Alexis is shooting his first day of Dollhouse right now!
Sounds like a match made in Joss-heaven!
Here are a few other tidbits from the Twitter world.
–@TVGuideMagazine: Ostroff on #Supernatural: “we hope it will go on…Kripke has done a wonderful job.”
— @heybuzzsugar Don’t expect more than one season of Day One, though if it does well it could return. More of an event, says Bromstad. #TCA
— @Syfy  We announced our new superhero show Alphas …read more