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November 14 2008

FOXtel announces January schedule, with Dollhouse? FOX08 in Australia will start airing Dollhouse in January, according to the FOXTEL CEO in this Perth Now article. Hilarity may ensue. Though according to TV Tonight, the airdate has still not been set.

gossi | Dollhouse | 11:47 CET | 44 comments total | tags: dollhouse, australia, foxtel, holy bittorrent batman

I think that's incorrect as this article says there's no airdate for it yet.

Link:

Simon | November 14, 11:50 CET

*puts BitTorrent down*

gossi | November 14, 11:52 CET

Nice tags, gossi.

dzr | November 14, 11:53 CET

For the sake of my sanity, I've tweaked the entry to show the ambiguity.

Simon | November 14, 12:01 CET

Aha. I tweaked it at the same time, but yours won.

I can't see this being true somehow, because they would risk killing the US broadcast audience. Although Drive ended up airing in Canada first and becoming BitTorrent's Hit Drive, so you never know.

gossi | November 14, 12:04 CET

I got flashbacks of Sky One airing Battlestar Galactica season one before the Americans.

Simon | November 14, 12:05 CET

And we sometimes had the Stargates first over here too. It was odd to see the Sky logo in the corner of a show i'd possibly *cough* acquired by other means.

Saje | November 14, 12:06 CET

As an Aussie, and as tempted as I am to shout "IN YOUR FACE!" right now, I'm actually holding back.
Methinks there is one slightly misinformed Foxtel PA person wandering around right now in a champagne buzz.
It'll never happen, and if it does... well confirm away, and I'll be the idiot, yelling away in the corner!

missb | November 14, 12:11 CET

This is just a simple mistake because up until recently it was meant to air in January. No issue...

Beren77 | November 14, 12:12 CET

And you guys (from the UK) were the first to get the complete run of Firefly, I still have copies of the episodes from back then in my perosnal collection.
Worth saving for the Nathan or Ron intro message before the episodes, not included in the DVDs.

There were also some episodes of BSG that you guys did get before US.

But into this, nothing beat the mess that happened with Buffy Season 6, back in 2002 when people could get the early feeds, and someone switched "Entropy" and "Seeing Red".

Numfar PTB | November 14, 12:29 CET

Didn't Brazil get the first complete run of The Inside?

Simon | November 14, 12:31 CET

Hah. The wildfeed for Seeing Red was sent out early?

Simon - I think you're correct. Then the UK got it.

gossi | November 14, 12:31 CET

Yeah we do OK with the cancelled stuff, IIRC 'Wonderfalls' ran in its entirety fairly early over here too. And Sci-Fi UK, bless 'em, was where I first saw 'Firefly', in the correct order to boot.

Saje | November 14, 12:34 CET

Yes we did get the complete run of The Inside (wished I taped them), but wasn't that well promoted or even planned. Fox showed all the episodes, then hid the show in saturday afternnons. Well, not only Brazil, but most Latin America, since we`re under the same Fox Latin America management, when it concerns the News Corp owned networks.

Yeah, the wildfeed for Seeing Red was sent when they were supposed to send Entropy. I remember the uproar in the fandom, for that being such a big turning point episode in the season.

Update: I love online archives. The wildfeed mess up was even more ironic for us in South America, because Fox was still showing the first half of the season, and was about a week after they showed the edited down version of OMWF, and local fans were pretty upset that they were not able to watch the complete version.

And this was at a time when Kristin dos Santos was still Wanda, and all before the bittorent era, and more tech-savvy people were getting things through MiRC channels.

[ edited by Numfar PTB on 2008-11-14 13:03 ]

Numfar PTB | November 14, 12:39 CET

Wow, I had no idea about that mess up.

gossi | November 14, 12:42 CET

And Sci-Fi UK, bless 'em, was where I first saw 'Firefly', in the correct order to boot.

Well, correct order, until Joss changed it for the DVDs.

Numfar PTB | November 14, 12:51 CET

I mean they were in the DVD order (i.e. 'Serenity Pt 1 and 2' first), as opposed to the order they were shown on US TV.

ETA: Unless you mean the episodes after the pilot, which Joss may well have changed for the DVD (to some extent).

[ edited by Saje on 2008-11-14 12:57 ]

Saje | November 14, 12:55 CET

I didn't know about the Seeing Red thing either. I wasn't a fan at the time, frankly I'm really sorry I missed that uproar. It must have been quite entertaining... and gut-wrenching, too. I love Tara's character, but unfortunately I knew she was going to bite it when I first watched the show on DVD. I didn't know the details, but it still saved my guts from too much wrenching. Yet, I think I would have preferred to experience the full brunt of it. Masochistic, I know.

nyrk | November 14, 13:06 CET

Yes, Saje, I mean the orders for Trash, The Message and Heart of Gold.

Numfar PTB | November 14, 13:16 CET

And that BBC site still says Not avaliable in your area to the Doctor Who videos.

Since there was a mention to this strange country in South America... Buffy is the 5th audience of her station here.

Brasilian Chaos Man | November 14, 13:23 CET

Y'know, I really wouldn't be so irked at this if Americans ever got Aussie entertainment before they did. It would have been interesting to see my countrymen react to a nationwide theatrical run of something like Romper Stomper or The Quiet Earth, before it ever came out in its homeland.

And before anyone who's in the know writes me back something scathing, yes, I do know that The Quiet Earth was from New Zealand, not Australia. But it's still early in the morning here, and I was looking for two films, and those were the two that popped into my head. Just wanted to reassure anyone who cares that I do understand the difference between an Aussie and a Kiwi.

[ETA: Said difference being, as far as I know, that only one of them might be getting Dollhouse before us. Ha! Just kidding, guys.]

[ETA Part Deux: Just remembered that I could have listed either Mad Max or Gallipoli and not had to include either of these long digressions, or the entire second paragraph. Meh. It is what it is, it do what it do. Waffle time.]

[ edited by BAFfler on 2008-11-14 14:37 ]

BAFfler | November 14, 14:35 CET

Even though Mel Gibson isn't Australian and 'Gallipoli', though a good film, is deeply (often inaccurately) anti-British.

Fact is, it's hard not to offend somebody if they've a mind to it ;).

Saje | November 14, 14:50 CET

Hello to all my new bestest friends in Australia.

Sunfire | November 14, 16:27 CET

I for one welcome our new upside-down overlords.

Saje | November 14, 16:31 CET

I just want to say that Australia is the one place I'd love to visit. It's full of such kind and wonderful people. Wise people with computers and the knowledge of uploads. The world would be such a sadder place without you.

And Lost would make absolutely no sense ;P

Eric_Curtis | November 14, 16:45 CET

I for one welcome our new upside-down overlords.

Heh.

Show Dollhouse early.
…
Profit!

CowboyNeal will be here all week until he's outsourced to India.

dzr | November 14, 16:49 CET

I for one welcome our new upside-down overlords.

Hey that's right, it'll be summer there when Dollhouse starts. Season of wandering away from the computer to do outside things. I'm afraid.

ETA: Meanwhile here that is the season of cold rain, teasing bits of snow, and occasional ice storms. Boo.

[ edited by Sunfire on 2008-11-14 17:00 ]

Sunfire | November 14, 16:59 CET

[sniff) Wish we had those network errors here in Japan. :)

Madhatter | November 14, 17:03 CET

CowboyNeal will be here all week until he's outsourced to India.

Welcome to slashwhedon. Wait, that's wrong on SO MANY levels.

Also, I just wanted to clarify something - the hilarity will come from piracy. I don't have any objection to Oz getting the series first - in fact, I think it would be kinda cool.

gossi | November 14, 17:39 CET

Wish they where actually smart enough to do this intentionally, since this is pretty close to what gossi argued for earlier, a pre-release of the first episode on the internet to get the buzz going (though doing it for a whole season could be stretching it a bit, but they could rein it in once they 'discover' the mistake).

So I'm guessing the movie Australia will first be released in California ?

jpr | November 14, 18:20 CET

Little did they suspect that someone would hand Australia the keys to a shiny new them.

Pointy | November 14, 18:27 CET

Must agree. Gossi, we know. Thank you.

Now, back to the hilarity [so cool, new word!).

Madhatter | November 14, 18:55 CET

It so very much will not happen. Fox8's schedule will change. Better Off Ted won't even be available until the spring (probably late). I think they have only filmed the pilot.

The article is simply working off old info. FBC would go ballistic if this happened. Not a chance.

TamaraC | November 14, 19:03 CET

They don't appear to be the only ones saying it, however. So either other news sources are making the same error, or they're actually getting the info from FOXTEL, so the old info would have to coming form them. (Although that doesn't explain the TV Tonight story saying something different and more sensible, heh.)

ETA that this is not to say I think you're wrong. I just think there seems to be some evidence that the old/wrong info came out of FOXTEL itself somehow.

[ edited by theonetruebix on 2008-11-14 19:20 ]

The One True b!X | November 14, 19:11 CET

I totally think the wrong info came out of FOXTEL. Left hand and right hand stuff. Very normal. I mean, doesn't the online US FBC stuff still have images that say Dollhouse in January?

TamaraC | November 14, 19:29 CET

Keep in mind that there are still some places saying that Dollhouse is gonna be airing here in the US in January. Oops. Doh. Whoopsie. Blurgh. Fail.

JMaloney | November 14, 19:39 CET

You forgot one.

The One True b!X | November 14, 19:46 CET

At least they got it right on part of the page.

JMaloney | November 14, 20:15 CET

Ahh, JMaloney - my first laugh o' the day. Thanks.

QuoterGal | November 14, 20:31 CET

Little did they suspect that someone would hand Australia the keys to a shiny new them.

You know, I've been wondering ever since I watched Doctor Horrible exactly how he was planning to make Australia 'shiny' and 'new'. It kinda worries me. My mind has an unfortunate habit of conjuring an image from a post-apocalyptpic sci-fi series of a land burned to a shiny black consistency.

Dollhouse is never gonna come here first. That's not how the world works. It's strange (though nice) to be getting House only days after the US. I'm used to waiting months and chucking a tantrum at our stupid networks... This is probably old info or some sort of screw up.

It would be nice, though...

snowinhell | November 14, 21:18 CET

I'm so catching some sleep. Nighty night!

Madhatter | November 14, 23:38 CET

If it actually isn't a mistake, I just may consider getting FOXTEL, or at least watching it on FOXTEL at a friends place. But I doubt it.

Aviva | November 15, 04:52 CET

I miss wildfeeds.

Caroline | November 16, 19:44 CET

Email from FOX: "No, any foreign territories will premiere DOLLHOUSE after (or day of) the US premiere."

The One True b!X | November 18, 21:18 CET

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