If you are one of the many fans of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse and were hoping for some sort of last minute miracle repreve from the chopping block for your show, sadly it seems the chances of that have gotten even smaller. According to info from the Hollywood Reporter, ratings for last Friday’s season (or series) finale of Dollhouse were the worst yet for the freshman series.
2.8 million viewers watched the show and it earned a 1.0 preliminary adults 18-49 rating. That rating could improve slightly in the national average as the show had a minute of Prison Break overrun. But that would only help the show match last week’s season low of a 1.1. Not great.
So, will Dollhouse get a second season? With ratings like these and Fox’s track record with Joss Whedon shows, the chances are slim. Still, Fox may want to bring back at least one of its high-profile Sci-Fi shows for next season and ratings for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles were not any better and its now, supposedly, out of the running. Maybe that will give Dollhouse the edge it needs?
We’ll find out on May 18th when Fox reveals its new fall schedule.
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Sometimes, in the case of movies like Batman Begins, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Star Trek, you can understand why it was necessary to make them and/or reboot the franchises. But then there’s those movies that make you wonder why, or how, they ever got made. In this case I’m talking about the big screen adaptation of TV’s Land of The Lost featuring Wil Farrell, Danny McBride and Anna Friel.
Unless you live under a rock, on an island with no power, or don’t care, you are aware that there’s an 11th feature film out today based on Gene Roddenberry’s venerable creation Star Trek. In this reboot version, director J.J. Abrams, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and the rest of the team have managed to take a relatively tired franchise and inject it not only with new life, but with a new found sense of purpose as well. This purpose? To entertain, have fun and maybe even teach us a little something along the way. On all counts this film succeeds admirably.
Normally, the biggest hits of the summer arrive closer to late June or even July, when all the kids are out of school and nerdy fandads and fanmoms can take the family to the theater as many times as possible. Last year, that rule was trumped by a little film called Iron Man, which surpassed most movie and comic fans’ wildest dreams when it came to the gold and red hero.
What’s the one way to make an already funny book like Deadpool even more entertaining? Pair him up with an individual who–while may not be as funny–has a more twisted view of the world. That’s what happens in this issue as Norman Osborn decides to send in one of his heavy hitters, Hawkeye a.k.a. Bullseye, to take on the ‘Merc with the Mouth’. The interesting thing is that Bullseye is pretty funny himself, in a very sick kind of way. The back and forth between the two makes the interaction feel something like the Odd Couple on acid. Surprisingly, Bullseye isn’t present through most of the issue, but instead Daniel Way takes the reader through one of Deadpool’s lowest paying and comical hits before letting the two psychopaths cross… um, paths. What follows are some greatly choreographed and intelligently put together action panels that rival most well done action movies.