Is Dollhouse the new threshold for succesful Sci Fi on Fox?
Michael Taylor, co-creator of Virtuality, says that the "threshold for renewing Joss' show ["Dollhouse"] was ultimately pretty low and I think was out of respect for what he showed he can do and respect for sci-fi fans".
The background is that Michael Taylor and Ronald D. Moore created a two-hour Virtuality-pilot for Fox which didn't get a pickup for a full season. This Friday (June 26 at 8/7c) Fox will air it as a summer special looking to see if the show has viewership potential. Michael Taylor was writer and producer on Moore's Battelstar Galactica as well.
June 25 2009
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It's just a shame that Virtuality's 'test run' (perhaps funeral would be more apt) is on a Friday in the middle of the summer. The bar would have to be pretty low indeed for any measure of success given the circumstances. I also haven't run into any large promotion efforts either. I saw one fifteen second promo on Fox which treated it like a movie and frankly wasn't all that compelling. It's sad, I had high hopes for this one but it seems all but over with... I was so looking for something to fill the Battlestar Galactica shaped hole in my life.
onthedrift | June 25, 10:57 CET
@theonetruebix | June 25, 11:03 CET
[ edited by brinderwalt on 2009-06-25 20:13 ]
brinderwalt | June 25, 11:12 CET
AthenaMuze | June 25, 12:44 CET
sumogrip | June 25, 13:45 CET
PaulfromSunnydale | June 25, 15:56 CET
And Dollhouse may not have been a success, but it wasn't a failure, which may be a success in it's own right. Maybe.
SteppeMerc | June 25, 16:07 CET
So glad to hear find out that Virtuality is a Ron Moore project, I didn't know. Even if it's a really short run of a dead project, Moore has taken a place on my "will not miss giving it a chance" list, along with Joss and Alan Ball.
Shey | June 26, 00:27 CET
redeem147 | June 26, 17:01 CET
dispatch | June 27, 02:30 CET
Agreed.
wiesengrund | June 27, 02:59 CET