As NBC and Fox work to finalize their schedules for next year, the future of two genre shows, “Chuck” and “Dollhouse” remain up in the air. According to Variety, both networks are in the process of refining their final schedules for next year and will present them next week at their network upfront presentations.
Both shows are still considered to be “on the bubble” with no word on their immediate future either way. Reports indicate that Joss Whedon recently pitched a second season to Fox and that negotiations between the network and the show’s studio, 20th Century Fox, were on-going. Rumors abound that “Dollhouse” may be working with Fox to cut its cost to the network. However, the show could be in trouble with Fox looking to establish a new reality-TV beachhead along the lines of ratings-giant “American Idol” for its fall schedule. Conflicting reports continue to surface on whether Fox is ready to give the show a second chance or ready to move on.
Meanwhile, nothing new on the “Chuck” front. We’ll have an update on this week’s Slice of SciFi about the status of “Chuck.”
I think getting rid of Dollhouse would be even more premature than when they canceled Firefly. With the new Star Trek movie making hundreds of millions of dollars… Sci Fi fanatics are going to start blossoming and growing everywhere.
I admit the season was progressed slowly in the beginning. It wasn’t until the episode “Needs” that I was really hooked. But now we’ve got Alpha… and I LOVE Alan Tudyk!
And come on FOX, American Idol has really slipped into the toilet this season. It’s the same show it has been for the past 4 years, nothing new, nothing different. Even the decision to give the judges one chance to save one contestant was poorly used and didn’t make one bit of difference. They should have used it to save Alexis Grace, or saved it for the way-to-early-elimination of Allison Iraheta.
Reality TV… especially the stuff you find on FOX’s Reality TVchannel… is some of the weakest BS on the airwaves today.
Give Dollhouse the opportunity to develop and grow. Most show’s are slow-going in their maiden seasons. And this show has something FOX’s other show’s does not. A new and controversial story-line full of juicy moral dilemmas, a super hott cast of very talented actors… and a fan-base that will probably triple by the middle of the second season.