{"id":1440,"date":"2008-11-06T18:16:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2008-11-06T18:16:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T01:16:06","slug":"dollhouse-probably-doa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Dollhouse: Probably DOA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herc over at Ain&#8217;t It Cool has what can only be called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/39002\" target=\"_blank\">pre-mortem post-mortem<\/a> on Joss Whedon&#8217;s Dollhouse, which has already been doomed to certain failure by a Friday night time slot, the same night where Firefly rotted and died a quick death.<\/p>\n<p>X-Files was the first thing I thought of too, and Herc has the date&#8211;1993. Do the shitholes at Fox seriously think they can turn Friday into some kind of sci-fi night again in the tradition of a move they made fifteen years ago? A move that has meaning only to about twenty people, most of which work for Fox? It&#8217;s not like when NBC owned sitcoms on Thursday; no one reminisces about &#8220;Must-See Friday&#8221; over on Fox when Mulder and Scully ruled the roost.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t honestly believe that Fox wants Dollhouse to fail; I just don&#8217;t think they give a shit either way. What they probably hope for is another Firefly&#8211;drop a little cash on a token first half-season, sell a shitload of DVDs, make a cheap feature film that will probably make its money back and maybe a little profit, sell some comic books and toys and T-shirts to the nerds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herc over at Ain&#8217;t It Cool has what can only be called the pre-mortem post-mortem on Joss Whedon&#8217;s Dollhouse, which has already been doomed to certain failure by a Friday night time slot, the same night where Firefly rotted and died a quick death. X-Files was the first thing I thought of too, and Herc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}