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Slim to none in my opinion. The quality aside its just not getting the right numbers for a primetime show
I read the earlier topic about it being sent to the attic, but from what Ive read that issue seemed more to do with contract issues more then anything else.
Could someone tell me what the possibilities are that the show will get a second season?
Slim to none in my opinion. The quality aside its just not getting the right numbers for a primetime show
i hope so but from what i've read i doubt it
Hard to say right now. FOX has assured Joss that they love the show and he's "cautiously optimistic" about the chances for renewal, but I don't trust FOX in the slightest. I still think it's a "Lucy and the football" scenario. Guess we'll see.Originally Posted by Puddle-Jumper
Whos lucy and just why does she have a football?... Seriously I don't get the reference...
Damn fox.....
It's a long-running joke from the Peanuts cartoon. Lucy would offer to hold the football for Charlie Brown, he'd get a running start to kick it, and at the last second she'd yank the ball away, leaving Charlie Brown to kick the air and flip onto his back. And every time she'd promise that no, this time she REALLY REALLY would let him kick it. REALLY. And every time he believed her. And EVERY TIME she yanked it away.
Substitute FOX as Lucy and Joss as Charlie Brown and you get the picture.
Awesome reference.....It's a long-running joke from the Peanuts cartoon. Lucy would offer to hold the football for Charlie Brown, he'd get a running start to kick it, and at the last second she'd yank the ball away, leaving Charlie Brown to kick the air and flip onto his back. And every time she'd promise that no, this time she REALLY REALLY would let him kick it. REALLY. And every time he believed her. And EVERY TIME she yanked it away.
Substitute FOX as Lucy and Joss as Charlie Brown and you get the picture.
The one glimmer of hope is that FOX has compared TSCC and Dollhouse numbers, with supposedly saviour of friday night Prisonbreak and relise that actually both have done better the key demographics than prison break. So that small sliver of hope there. So prison break may not save Dollhouse through bringing in more people to watch it but from the last numbers I sure it may be doing bad enough that it makes Dollhouse/TSCC look descent and worth sticking with for another year. TSCC espcially worth a gamble from FOX may be a miniseries or 13 episode run to see if it can capitalise on the new film or at least give us fans a ending, just to stop us hating them more than we already do.
lmao :d[ig]http://onenewday.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/1107charlie_brown_lucy_football.jpg[/img]
substitute fox as lucy and joss as charlie brown and you get the picture.
I seem to recall one stripe where she lamented on the fact that the reason he believed her was because she was sometimes telling the truth. Sometimes she really was planning to hold the football there, but then yanked it away purely out of habit.
See? Perfect!
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/doll...dol-28343.aspxSupport Joss: Tweet to Save Dollhouse Petition
It's no secret that FOX has a hard time trusting Joss Whedon when it comes to his genius mind. I mean look at what they did with Firefly! That's why it is time for the fans to be heard, it's time to get loud! So if you're a Joss Whedon fan, please pay close attention, because we need your help to save Dollhouse!
If Dollhouse doesn't get a second season I don't blame Fox, I blame the doomsayers among the audience who have been around since day one. The show is not yet dead -- other shows that are still airing (i.e. Prison Break) have already been announced as not-renewed for another season -- meaning that either no decision has been reached or a decision to renew has been reached. No news, as they say, is good news.
If Fox was so disappointed with Dollhouse they would have signalled that there would be no renewal part way through. I highly doubt it is a clear cut decision for them though, so it might not get renewed. But they are or have been considering it, which is all that fans can really ask for.
Campaigns to save the show might do more harm than good. The reality is that such campaigns can only ever serve to draw attention to a cancelled show to make sure proper consideration has been given -- they do not have any direct influence on the decision itself. From the perspective of Fox, they might see signals from fans trying to save Dollhouse as validation of any movement to kill the show. Rather than keep the buzz around the show alive, the doomsayers are taking the limelight away from the core base of support.
Stop sending signals to Fox that you expect them to not renew the show. Don't tempt fate!
Oh I dunno about blaming the doomsayers. A few disgruntled (non)viewers only ruin the fun for us here on Gateworld, they don't control the fate of an entire show.
I'm perfectly willing to blame Joss- and FOX- if the show doesn't get renewed. FOX for interfering and Joss for... probably for being Joss. LOL! I like the show fine and I hope it gets renewed, but asking folks to sit through that much stuff just to get to the good parts is a bit much. I know I mentioned I liked the occasional slow-burn series, but even I was getting a bit antsy by ep 6, so I can understand folks who'd given up by then or who weren't all that impressed by the time it finally took off.
I've never been a fan of blaming the audience for a show's failure. IMO if that many people are upset about something- or hate it, or are bored by it or whatever- then that speaks more to the writing than the viewers. I mean, you guys don't seriously expect people to tune into a show the don't like just to keep it on the air for you, do you? Although judging by some of the stuff I saw in the Stargate folders in that show's final days, that's exactly what some people think. LOL!
Anyway, hopes are still supposed to be good for a renewal, although I'm not sure audience numbers support that. It's still a game of wait and see.
There's large chance it won't get a second season because it's a SciFi series and in order to get what's going on you need to see all episodes. If you fail to see all the episodes you'll miss that the first 6 episodes or something, while boring and slow-paced, served as an introduction to the dollhouse, the emerging self-awareness of Echo and her friendships with Sierra and Victor. Most people find the clues dropped to be to subtle and the first six episodes to be too boring to continue watching the series. Even I have to admit that the only reason I kept watching the first few episodes was to see what kind of skimpy outfit they'd fit the actives in, because plotwise it wasn't that strong. It only got enjoyable when the main arc kicked in and the small hints dropped in the slow episodes started to make sense.
If it does get a second season it's probably because it's easy for Fox to sex it up a bit. More women in skimpy outfits and more men bare breasted means that people will watch it.
I do hope that the series gets a second season, mostly because I'm curious about what Alpha will do next.
Radha: Dollhouse's chances of renewal are reportedly slim. Please, please say it isn't so! Do you have any happier news?
You know that 14th episode of Dollhouse that's set in a post-Apocalyptic universe and that won't be appearing on Fox network but will be included on the season-one DVD? Well, no one's officially confirming anything, and this is all still entirely in the theoretical dreamy dream stage, but reliable sources tell us exclusively that spinning off "Epitaph One" into a new series is "not exactly outside the realm of Joss’ master plan." So even if Dollhouse proper doesn't get a pickup for season two, there might still be an alternate Dollverse for us to play in. What do you think of that?!
http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/watch...oing_kill.html
According to Whedonesque Global TV is reporting Dollhouse as renewed, but FOX is balking and saying any official announcement will be made at the upfront presentation next week.
Well if Dollhouse renewed, rumored, then surly Sarah conner chronicles got to be renewed, they were both equal in ratings for the time they aired together.
I kind of hope so, because that show just started to get interesting. But TSCC is fairly expensive, while Dollhouse is CGI-free (to all intents and purposes), has 1 major set that is used week in and week out (and in which several episodes happen almost exclusively), and will be for the whole series.
Scripted shows on major networks don't get much cheaper than that, unless they are sitcoms.
Dollhouse is not a good show so it will not last. Firefly was ten times better than Dollhouse.
Good day sir.
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