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Written by: Rae • November 1st, 2007 • Filed Under: Dollhouse, FOX

This post will be brief, as it’s mostly an addendum to my last post.

It’s fun to see the Internet buzzing about Jossian TV again. Even if all we’re buzzing about right now is the prospect of what’s to come. There are pessimists out there but it seems like they are far outweighed by the optimists and that’s all I ask.

Anyway, I wanted to make sure everyone had a link to James Hibberd’s interview with Joss about Dollhouse. He touches on the one concern that everyone has with the news that the show is going to be on Fox. I encourage you to read the whole thing as they also talk about the return to Fox in light of the recent Buffy sing-a-long cancellations, but here is Joss’ response to the whether he feels any reluctance to return to the network:

“It’s a brand new day over there. It’s a completely new bunch of people and they seem really intelligent and supportive. Walking back into the building was a little strange. But no. It was absolutely the last thing I saw coming, but absolutely the right thing to do. It’s like one of those movies where you keep waiting for somebody to fall in love with the hot girl. It was sort of meant to be. … I mean, a network is a network. They have an agenda and it is not yours. And that’s OK, as long as you work hard to make the agendas coincide.”

I know that it is still Fox and we’ve all been burned so many times including as recently as this past spring. However, the fact that Joss seems to be really on board with the new management at Fox and they approved the budget he wanted, all has me strangely unconcerned about the Fox part. I may come to regret that but isn’t that always the way it is with love? Plus, it helps that he says that Buffy fans would be even more excited about the news, “If they could only see what’s in my head right now….”

Indeed, Joss, if only…

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1. Comment by Spadada on 1 November 2007:

Indeed, Joss, if only…
That’s my fantasy! To be able to see inside Joss Whedon’s head.
2. Comment by Rae on 1 November 2007:

I know, right?! How awesome would that be?
3. Comment by Scooter McGavin on 1 November 2007:

Yeah, Joss is going to come out and say something like that, he is not going to bad mouth the people signing his paycheck before they even turn in the first script. Call me a pessimists but I am going to pass on the show. I haven’t watched anything on Fox since the Arrested Development series finale after being burned double digit times and the network hasn’t done anything since that makes me think this one will last a month.
4. Comment by Rae on 1 November 2007:

Well I wouldn’t expect him to badmouth the network but I think he’d be a little less wordy with what he has to say about them. Since he wasn’t the one seeking out the network and asking to be given a show, I’m a little more likely to think he’s not just stroking their egos with his words.

Of course, the truth is that it’s Joss and I wouldn’t pass on anything he’s doing before giving it a try. Joss just, uh, tells stories that I like. It’s pretty much as simple as that.
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