The Los Angeles Science Fiction Society voted writer/director Joss Whedon the 2008 recipient of the Forry Award. The prize is given to people for “Service to the Science Fiction Community.” According to LASFS’ minutes, “At the meeting of October 2, Joss Whedon was chosen as the recipient of this year’s Forry Award. Now all we…
Browncoats are Firefly fans and some fans seem to go to extremes to show their appreciation for the Joss Whedon series which lasted a mere season on Fox. One group of fans has named themselves the Firefly Ship Works and have devoted countless hours to studying the series in minute detail. They’ve done schematics for…
The Hollywood Reporter named its top 40 showrunners with genre mastermind Joss Whedon heading the list. The role of showrunner has evolved through the years but is the producer charged with making the television series hum, from concept to airdate. They tend to direct the creative process and are involved in every aspect such as…
Joss Whedon’s new series Dollhouse cannot seem to avoid being examined in great depth. Yesterday, Fox consigned it to the dreaded Friday night at 9 p.m. slot and then the Los Angeles Times ran a report on continuing production delays and concerns. The show shut down production for two and a half weeks in September…
Fox announced a dramatically restructured midseason lineup, radically different than the schedule they outlined over the summer. They have revived the Friday night science fiction dumping ground, placing Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse on that evening, beginning February 13, the beginning of a three-day weekend when viewership tends to drop anyway….
In an interview with Viceland, Joss Whedon talked about women (of course) and some more thoughts on what went into creating Dollhouse, which will debut this January on Fox. On the issue of reality versus fiction, Whedon said, “That’s the whole point of the setting, is [Eliza Dushku’s] sense of self and her assertion of…
When it comes to Joss Whedon’s new television series Dollhouse, "playtime" is the last word on anyone’s lips. The upcoming Fox show has experienced some pretty serious road bumps since its inception. A reshoot of the series pilot was ordered, shifting the originally shot first episode into the second episode slot. Soon after, a filming…
There isn’t even an airdate as yet, but Fox’s Dollhouse, due in January, has stirred up some controversy. Fans are worried because Fox has a reputation for being ham-fisted with genre programming and is as likely to cancel a show as it is to support it. Creator Joss Whedon has defended the current regime at…
Zap2it is reporting that production has been shut down on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse for two weeks. If this sounds familiar, it’s because Fox just did the same thing on 24 and for the same reason: a chance to tighten the scripts. Whedon apparently had been so involved in directing two episodes, he was neglecting the…
Even if we are lucky enough to ever see another Serenity feature, there are far too many questions to be answered in one sitting. One of those is just who is Shepherd Book. Joss Whedon talks about why he chose character for a new Dark Horse mini-series, plus: Buffy gets an MMO, Firefly gets put…
According to the media, lawyers are gearing up for a “frenzied fight” over the screen rights to the biggest graphic novel of all time, plus: Barack sells out at Image It’s now a world without Don LaFontaine Robert Englund tells us about the rebirth of V And on Saturday, catch ComicMix Radio as we are…
Joss Whedon’s kooky internet musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion, was up for a short time for free but then taken down only to be seen for pay on iTunes. Well ComicMix is all about free stuff. Free news, free comics, and free supervillain musicals. Thanks to Hulu.com, we…
