Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. (also 20th Century Fox Television) is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation. 20th Century Fox Television is producing Dollhouse,[1] besides Eliza Dushku's Boston Diva Productions and Mutant Enemy, Joss Whedon's production company.[2]
Previous Shows[]
20th Century Fox Television produced every show by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly) as well as every show produced by Tim Minear (Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive).
Dollhouse[]
After Dollhouse went on a two weeks hiatus in September 2008 after three episodes were finished to focus on future scripts, concerns about the future of the show were raised. 20th Century Fox Television addressed these concerns:
| Trying to tell stories that involve a genre mythology, while also telling close-ended episodic stories, while also developing characters that people are going to want to come back to week in and week out—it’s an enormous, Herculean effort. [But] there’s no one we have more faith in than Joss Whedon.
The midseason opportunity is a blessing and curse. It’s a blessing because you have more time. And it’s a curse because you have more time. There’s a greater level of scrutiny. There is a greater level of intrusion from executives. The bar just keeps being raised because there’s no urgency to put the show on the air, so at no point do you just let go of it and say, “You know what, now it’s time for this country to decide whether this is something that’s going to tap into the Zeitgeist and become culturally phenomenal or successful in general, or not.” Being stuck in that limbo with a lot of well-intentioned executives is very difficult for a creator like Joss. With [Mr. Whedon’s WB series] “Angel,” we shut that down at the very beginning of the process. There was a creative retooling. We went back up after a little over a month and the show just found the place where the stories were the most interesting and the characters just popped. And that’s where we’ve come to with “Dollhouse.” There’s a very complicated mythology that Joss is trying to crack in a way that’s satisfying to a broad audience but will also satisfy his core fan base who will watch anything that Joss does. This is a big task. |
Notes & References[]
- ↑ Dollhouse. fox.com. Retrieved on 2008-10-13.
- ↑ Phillips, Jevon (2007-10-31). Whedon returns to TV with 'Dollhouse'. Show Tracker: What you're watching. latimes.com. Retrieved on 2008-10-13.
- ↑ Adalian, Josef (2008-10-12). 20th Team Celebrates Cable Wins. tvweek.com. Retrieved on 2008-10-13.