Maybe, just maybe, it's not very good?

I thought firefly was chuff, so what's in a name?

Yeah, with all that other stuff, Friday isn't necessarily absolutely a death sentence. Sci-fi channel has their biggest shows on Friday...maybe they are thinking to draw in that audience since they are both sci-fi? Maybe they are thinking that to a certain extend?

how bad is the friday slot these days, figuring in dvr numbers? speaking of which, i believe numb3rs, which had whedonverse alums d.b. woodside and morena baccarin on one recent ep, and of course stars serenity's david krumholtz, does pretty good business on fridays. sure it's a procedural, but it's a nerdier/geekier-than-usual procedural and probably has overlapping audience with dollhouse.

There may be a silver lining to placing it on Friday. The rating expectations will be lower on Friday, so perhaps Fox will give it the rest of the year to gain an audience.
Terminator is already picked up for the entire season, so it's fairly likely that it will finish the year on Friday, so I'm hopeful that Dollhouse will stay paired with it.

And can we stop the Fringe cancellation fears as it's the biggest ad demo performers of new shows and has already received a full season pickup.

Well, an all-new SciFi block on Friday night is working pretty well for SciFi Channel. Why shouldn't FOX make a run at that?

*sigh* Oh, Fox, when will you learn? You put out some amazing shows, but you don't treat them very well. I think it's time for an intervention.

Why do people jump on FOX automatically for hurting Joss' show. We don't even know if its good. Frankly I am quite sick of Mr. Whedon lately, after seeing Dr. Horrible I realized how much of a "One Trick Pony" he is.When it comes time for the drama its time to impale someone. Personally I think he is running out of juice. Frankly this show doesn't seem very interesting at all, but people will call it brilliant when someone is impaled at a random moment. What really irks me is ai used to be a huge fan, I even help run a Joss fansite (http://hellmouthcentral.com).

Ugh. Friday nights with Terminator? They're killing good shows.
Why not put them on Wednesday? There's never anything good on that night... or Thursday too.

With the popularity of online viewing and dvr, does the schedule slot still play as big of a role as it used to, in terms of a show's success?

Hey there's that same Dollhouse pic. sigh.