Dollhouse Coming to Fox

Hallelujah! That’s all I could think when I read this bit of news.

Seems that Joss Whedon, God of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is teaming up with Eliza Dushku, also of BtVS fame, in a new Fox series, Dollhouse. The really good news is that this is not a rumor and there is no pilot. This is an actual series waiting to be born.

Some people find shame in their love of Buffyverse, but I am not one of them. That show rocked my socks so much that I actually requested every Tuesday night off so that I could watch it. I’m over being bitter at it’s end, though. Ha! Though I do wonder, Ms. Gellar, how those Grudge movies are doing for ya? Hmm?

From E! Online:

Echo (Eliza Dushku) [is] a young woman who is literally everybody’s fantasy. She is one of a group of men and women who can be imprinted with personality packages, including memories, skills, language—even muscle memory—for different assignments. The assignments can be romantic, adventurous, outlandish, uplifting, sexual and/or very illegal. When not imprinted with a personality package, Echo and the others are basically mind-wiped, living like children in a futuristic dorm/lab dubbed the Dollhouse, with no memory of their assignments—or of much else. The show revolves around the childlike Echo’s burgeoning self-awareness, and her desire to know who she was before, a desire that begins to seep into her various imprinted personalities and puts her in danger both in the field and in the closely monitored confines of the Dollhouse.

I’m not too sure how I like this idea, but it can’t be bad. Really, I doubt it. Afterall, Whedon is writing it. And Dushku rocked as “Faith” on BtVS. I seriously wish Whedon would have let her highness go and let Dushku, Hannigan, et al take over. But, sadly, it wasn’t to be. Still, if this writer’s strike doesn’t happen, I’m definitely going to be all over this show. I’m thrilled just thinking about it.

7 episodes isn’t a lot of time for a show to strut its stuff, but hopefully the BtVS cult will come out full force for this one. What would really be great is if they could somehow bring in some of the old cast for some cameos. I don’t know if James Marsten is still on Without a Trace but I’m sure they can spare him. Why not? Anyway, I’m really looking forward to Dollhouse and the return of Joss Whedon to full time primetime status.

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