A new pilot for “Dollhouse”

I just thought I should be up-front about it...

It was announced this week that the upcoming Joss Whedon show “Dollhouse” is having a new pilot filmed for its debut in 2009.

However, many of Whedon’s fans who have been looking forward to the new show from the sci-fi creator may blanch when they hear this news. This new development sounds suspiciously familiar to the tragic run-up to his last show on the Fox Network: the now cult favorite “Firefly“. At the time Fox insisted Whedon not air his intended pilot as the first episode of Firefly and air a more action oriented episode in its place; an action that fans of the program still blame as one of the reasons Firefly was soon canceled (most other reasons are also usually attributed to Fox’s attitude towards the showby the program’s fans) .

Whedon insists that the network’s attitude is not the reason this time, and that the decision, while requested by Fox, is one that he agrees with and says that the show will be made the better for it. While some of Whedon’s fans are reassured, others are bound to take this news with a grain of salt until Dollhouse premieres early next year.

He makes his plea in a (strange yet humorous) self-interview on the website WHEDONesque. The message can be found here.

-Beans

~ by beanseboy on July 22, 2008.