Today’s news features Dollhouse. What with it being January and Joss’ new show starting very, very soon (February 13th if you have forgotten). TVAddict has a review of the first episode and Dollhouse is also featured in TV Guide’s Winter Schedule preview. Also in the news today is a preview of Buffy season 8 #21, featuring our other favourite blonde vampire - Harmony.

» TVAddict Reviews Dollhouse
On the whole a positive but realistic review of the first episode. Or what was the second episode and now the first. On the whole it’s an almost spoiler free review, but if you want to stay completely spoiler free, just avoid reading it altogether!

» TVGuide’s Winter Schedule Preview
Dollhouse is featured as an editor’s pick, and this is why:

The latest, reshot pilot still reveals some flaws - the biggest problem with Dollhouse may be what goes on inside the Dollhouse - but the missions, er, engagements are kinda cool, as Echo immerses herself in each new personality. We’re going to give Team Whedon-Dushku some latitude on this one.

Also featured on the preview is Christian Kane’s new show Leverage and Christopher Gorham’s (aka James Stanley in Buffy episode I Only Have Eyes For You) Harper’s Island.

» Buffy Season 8 #21 Preview
Four page preview for #21 of the Buffy season 8 run, click the link to see the preview images. Here’s what this issue’s about, from MTV.com:

In her quest for fame and a spot among the celebrity elite, the blonde bloodsucker manages to find time in the spotlight courtesy of a new Reality TV series on MTV - and creates a world in which vampires are in and slayers are yesterday’s bad fad.

Hello and welcome to the all sparkling, brand new Dusk ’til Dawn! Well I say that now, but will also have this vague disclaimer - there are still a fair few kinks, and i’m still converting a lot of the old content to this new version, and some of the current content may look a bit funky. But I’ve been itching to at least get this made public, so I can carry on with the website updating.

So what do you think? Let me know in the comments. Also let me know if you find things that aren’t working. And remember several of the sections here I’m still working on getting the content moved over from the old version or getting new content in, so please bare with me! Though I’m hoping having this all new and shiny right now will spur me on somewhat to get the rest of the site organised.

Along with the new look the daily news is going to be changing. I’ll do one post once a day with some links to the news that I find and then I’ll also be doing episode reviews of new TV, including the upcoming Dollhouse and everything else I watch. And then some other random pieces of writing I may just have sudden urges to write here. Don’t worry, it will be fandom related!

So with that, I’ll let you have a look round and see how much is broken.

Here’s the news round-up for today. The first item’s about Battlestar Galactica, and yes that isn’t directly related to Whedon stuff, but it’s a well known fact that BSG is Joss’ favourite TV show (or at least one of) and an ex Whedon alum is currently writing for the show - Jane Espenson. She’s written the series of webisodes that are getting shown in the run up to the final season, and the first article’s about that series. The second news item is an interview with Buffy season 8 comic artist, Georges Jeanty - past, present and future.

» Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy
The most important show in television comes back to the interweb and there’s a few answers about the writer of the webisodes - Jane Espenson:

Espenson, who wrote all ten episodes of Face of the Enemy is a writer and producer on BSG. And for people who care about writing, especially screenwriting, she’s something of a demi-god.

 

Espenson broke into the business writing spec scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the early ’90s she knocked around the backwaters of TV land until Joss Whedon discovered her and gave her a writing gig on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. From there, Espenson wrote for other Whedonverse shows, including Firefly and Angel, before branching out to write for Gilmore Girls, The OC, and finally BSG. On the side, she even found time to write for comic books and The New Republic.

Read more about her on the link, and the rest of the webisodes in preparation of the new season of BSG.

» Georges Jeanty - Eleven Questions Asked
The Independent Comics Site has done an interview with Buffy season 8 comic artist, Georges Jeanty. He talks about where he started in the comics industry and what his reaction was to getting the Buffy season 8 gig:

Like most people, I didn’t believe it.

 

Really. I thought Dark Horse was yanking my chain. What a cruel trick I thought, to get me to draw your book by telling me the guy who for some is a house hold name asked for you personally. But it was true.

For the last five years, Tahmoh Penikett has been fighting off Cylons, a robotic race threatening human existence, on Sci Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica. Starring in Joss Whedon’s upcoming and already beleaguered drama Dollhouse, however, could be a more daunting task. Read full article.

Watch The Guild’s Christmas Special, with a new twist on “The Night Before Christmas”.

Neil Patrick Harris told SCI FI Wire that he’s eager to appear in a sequel to Joss Whedon’s hit Web musical Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog and would also jump at the chance to guest on Whedon’s upcoming Fox SF series Dollhouse. Read full article.

It takes a pretty confident man to say ,”Anything that’s cold and blonde works for me.” But David Boreanaz, the 39-year-old actor who co-stars as Special Agent Seeley Booth on the hit Fox series “Bones,” has no qualms with that assertion. Boreanaz is, of course, referring to his choice in lagers. Read full article.

EW.com has got an exclusive clip from an upcoming episode of Joss’ new show Dollhouse. You can watch it right here. This is the first time we see Echo (Eliza Dushku) after having her memories wiped.

The hit web sitcom The Guild, which is about to launch its second season, never mentions World of Warcraft, but with its references to gnomes, raids and obsessive compulsive behaviour, it is clearly based on the game, which now claims 11 million global subscribers, or mortal slaves. Read full article.

Nathan Fillion talks with Amazon Video On Demand editor Stephanie Reid-Simons about being Captain Hammer, his history with musicals and the joys of creating Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. View video.