Dollhouse returns! And, along with the multitude of fans who commented/emailed/called, we’re excited!
The big guys at Fox explained to reporters this morning why they decided to stick with it:
“We think we can grow the show,” Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Rice said. “The show became much stronger creatively during the course of the season. Joss feels very energized about it, and we believe in him as a creator. We feel he can build the show and grow in the new season and that Friday is a good place for it to do that.”
Joss Whedon talks about its renewal with THR’s Live Feed:
The last few episodes we got to play “the man behind the curtain” a lot. We did less of, “And this week, she’s a neurosurgeon!” Which we’ll still do to an extent, it’s part of the fun. But we got into what makes the place tick, what makes it wrong. It was less, “Murder She Was Imprinted to Write.” The episodes were more satisfying and the network responded to that. And we also responded to their ideas about pacing and it being more of a thriller and a conspiracy so they were seeing what they were hoping for when we got the aspect we were looking for.
And he even teases about the new episodes in a comment at Whedonesque:
But oh, the terrible things my brain is brewing… Just wait. We’ll make it worth it.
Before they even got word of the official pickup, Co-EPs Liz Craft and Sarah Fain give some hints about Season 2 to their hometown paper, the Kansas City Star:
Craft: Alpha will be out there, but we’ll have someone else in Season 2, I’m sure. We always wanted him to get away.
