While Joss Whedon's show may have beat the odds with its second season pickup, it couldn't beat the odds for a full second season. According to
The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has canceled its sophomore series
Dollhouse.
The series is currently in production of its 11th episode and it was said they would finish out the 13-episode order before halting production.
Fox
pulled the show out of its November sweeps month lineup and it was said that the show would return on December 4, with back-to-back episodes on Friday nights throughout December. It was said that the network would stick to this plan and will air all 13 episodes of the season.
It was also said that series creator Joss Whedon plans to send the show off with a big finale.
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Never really cared for the show, Buffy was canceled by them, Firefly and Angel was as well.
I just wish he would stop giving them shows.
He needs to return to his hit series instead of going into uncharted territory's. Since he's good at horror then direct or write a few episodes of certain horror shows, I heard that two of them are looking for new writers.
TSCC was canceled because it kept getting worse and worse.
When the Simpson's first came on I hated it and refused to watch it for many years. It"s over done and it's just wrong, same thing with Family Guy and American Dad. These are really bad shows.
Oddly I don't recall that promotional stunt.
Todd, there suppose to promote a little of the episode, if they show every little piece of the episode what's the point of even watching it when it actually comes on. Early this year when 24 was still on, every time the show took a commercial break they would promote the hell outta Dollhouse. So, in truth, Dollhouse got the promotion they deserved.
And you said it right they put it on Fridays because it wasn't competed well against other shows on Tuesdays. they know that no one really watches on Friday night, which is why they weren't expecting a big ratings boost. But they even failed to rebuild there ratings on Friday, because much wasn't expected from a Friday show and they did below average. The premiere episode of Dollhouse helped Fox double its audience levels among women versus Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and helped the network finish in second place among adults 18-34 and in first place across the key male demographic for the night, so obviously TV watchers knew the show was on. The show just got worse and worse with ratings. Know shows fail on Fox, because they do poorly and Fox is smart enough to cancel failing shows. There's only about two crappy shows on Fox that do poorly. Just the same for any networks. Kville, Firefly, Driven these are crappy shows that Fox canceled that don't produce.
Newkill you say that they promote their shows, but in truth they don't. Yes, they do show a little of each episode to get people to watch but that's about all they do.
They get a show but care nothing for it, they stick it on Friday since they know perfectly well that no one watches TV that night. Fox announces a new awesome show, which lasts two seconds, it not only fails in ratings but the TV watchers have no clue that is one.
This is one of the reasons why shows fail on Fox,but they keep crappy shows which they do promote the Hell out of.
Mrphph, obviously, you don't watch a lot of Fox shows, because that's primarily what my tv stays on, way before Dollhouse aired they were promoting the hell outta that show. It even debuted on a Tuesday or Wednesday night, either day those were two big days. And they failed to do good ratings so they were pushed to Fridays, which is like a last chance spot, studios know that most people don't watch tv Fridays because they're usually out, so they don't expect much from shows on Fridays and weekend, but Dollhouse went even more below standards, which is why it wasn't picked up for sweeps month. This show did have a huge buzz on when it first started which is why it got a second season, because Fox wasn't even going to give this a second season, but a bunch of fans of the show wrote letters to Fox demanding that they kept it on air, so Fox granted the audience a second season. And guess what happened either the people who demanded it continue is not watching it or it was really a small number of people who enjoyed it. There's really know way you can blame Fox for canceling this. They gave it a shot. Two years and they're even going to be given episodes to close the show out with. If that would've been NBC, that would have never happened. Southland didn't even get a final episode.
I hope Fox will reconsider and keep Dollhouse going. It has tremendous potential if Fox would let people know about it.
I liked this show as much as the first season of "24". Stepford Wives meets Total Recall, meets La Femme Nikita. Brilliant!
he needs to learn from his mistakes, stop giving them pilots and concepts.