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Help save Dollhouse ... before it even debuts!

by Bob Sassone, posted May 27th 2008 6:01PM

Dollhouse

I have to admit, this made me chuckle.

You know how you latch on to a show that gets so-so ratings (Arrested Development, Jericho, Moonlight, etc.) and then the show is canceled and you're forced to scramble fans together to send nuts or whatever to the network to demonstrate how much you want the show to stick around? Well, why wait until the show is canceled to do that? In fact, why wait until the show even premieres?

Fans of the new FOX/Joss Whedon show Dollhouse (can you be a "fan" if the show hasn't debuted yet?) have already started a "Save Our Show" campaign, because they fear that FOX will cancel the show quickly, like they did another Whedon show, Firefly.

This could be the next big thing on the web: savvy TV fans who know that a show is doomed before it airs so they start a campaign to save it. This could actually have some impact. It's probably something that TV fans should have done years ago. Of course, intense fan support for a show won't mean much if the ratings aren't there when the show premieres. Dollhouse, by the way, doesn't premiere until January of 2009.

[via TV Tattle]

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Matthew

Even as a Whedon fan... sometimes Whedon fans annoy me. We get it, "Firefly" was mishandled. That was 6 years ago. Who in the hell is still even there from 6 years ago? You've got a completely different executive in place, and the President of Entertainment is the guy who stood by "Friday Night Lights" and "The Office" when others would have canceled them in a second. He's also clearly a genre fan, as evidenced by being the guy who put "Surface" "Heroes", "Journeyman", "Chuck" and now "Fringe" and "Dollhouse" on the air. It's really time to stop beating that dead horse. Let the poor thing rest in peace. "Dollhouse" will get a fair shake, as evidenced by half a decade of Kevin Reilly's work as a TV executive. If it doesn't work out this time around, it's just as likely that the show itself didn't work.

May 28 2008 at 12:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Argus

I agree. I can see how Whedon would be touched by this, but at the same time, while I would like people to be excited by my work, I think I would be a little annoyed if they automatically assumed that it would be amazing, as it could signal that when they did see the work they wouldn't appreciate it for what it really is. (Which is why die-hard fans of things often enjoy things everyone else agrees is crap.)

The annoying rock band in the next room won't stop playing pachebel's canon.

May 28 2008 at 6:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ProgGrrl

I thought this was more of a "watch the show in droves so that the ratings will be made of awesome" type of fan campaign?

Isn't that a good thing?

*confused*

May 27 2008 at 9:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LW

Somewhere here lies a Bush Admin., planning ahead, exit strategy joke...

May 27 2008 at 9:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
odd

they should cancel this Dark Angel rip off.

May 27 2008 at 8:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brian

Gosh, I have to wonder why no one thought to try to get people to actually WATCH THE SHOW. Want to save Dollhouse? Make sure it gets excellent ratings!

No, no... that just makes too much sense. What was I thinking?

May 27 2008 at 8:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Willmore

Publicity stunt?

May 27 2008 at 7:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Hank Tree

This isn't new. They was a Save Lost site open before Lost aired.

May 27 2008 at 7:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
divineparasite

Its silly but its also not silly. Its good to put the word out. "Dollhouse" has cult series written all over it. The problem is "cult" shows rarely survive anymore. Shows needs to be a breakout hit from episode one. Networks are too quick to cancel shows after only two or three episodes if the show isn't a top twenty show. And when you read what some of the people who post on here who criticize the show because it sounds like "X-men/Dark Angel/etc." fill in the blank with your own sci-fi title. Is it any more strange to want to hype up the positive aspects of the series, then it is to trash it before it airs?

May 27 2008 at 6:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eugene

It's Whedon's own damn fault for continuing to do business with Fox.

May 27 2008 at 6:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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