{"id":873,"date":"2008-03-27T10:11:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/?p=873"},"modified":"2008-03-27T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T17:11:20","slug":"dollhouse-helo-and-that-guy-from-the-tv-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Dollhouse: Helo and That Guy From The TV Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our first shred of <a href=\"http:\/\/community.tvguide.com\/blog-entry\/TVGuide-Editors-Blog\/Ausiello-Report\/Ausiello-Scoop-Whedons\/800036353\"><em>Dollhouse<\/em> casting news<\/a>. Scooping up Helo and his strangely hypnotic muscles was a fine move indeed, but I am almost equally excited about the casting of <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0469823\/\">Fran Kranz<\/a> as the show&#8217;s resident nerd. He was most recently on <em>Welcome to the Captain<\/em>, a sitcom that looked kind of like a parody of an actual sitcom, but you should all check him out in the 2006 flick <em>The TV Set<\/em>. If you love TV and know anything at all about how it&#8217;s made (or are curious to find out), you must watch this movie. It&#8217;s hilarious and insightful and Fran kills as a young actor who gets cast in a comedy pilot thanks to his hammy tendency to turn any line of dialogue into a potential catchphrase and the fact that one of the network execs is sure her daughter will love him. And the cast is stuffed with genre faces: Mulder, Ripley, Reed Richards, Deadly Girl. So go watch it and get a jump on a new potential Whedon fave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s our first shred of Dollhouse casting news. Scooping up Helo and his strangely hypnotic muscles was a fine move indeed, but I am almost equally excited about the casting of Fran Kranz as the show&#8217;s resident nerd. He was most recently on Welcome to the Captain, a sitcom that looked kind of like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}