» Dollhouse Season 2: Vows Review
IGN post their thoughts on Vows, the first episode of the second season of Dollhouse. It’s almost a positive review, which it still points out that the weakest thing about the show is Eliza. Someone give someone else the lead in the show!

» Set Visit Interviews: Joss Whedon on Dollhouse
Interview with Joss from the set of Dollhouse. As usual he stays pretty quite on pretty much everything!

» Behind the scenes photos on the set of Dollhouse
Sure the title of the entry is Eliza looking bored on set, but if you click through to that link you’ll find images of Alexis Denisof onset too! I kept forgetting that he was going to be in it too. Hopefully it’ll give him more TV work. He’s criminally underused!

» Joss Whedon Presents Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog
Information on a sing-a-long of Dr. Horrible where Joss will be in attendance for a Q&A.

» Top 10 Most Watched Web TV Shows
For the month of August Felicia Day’s The Guild comes in at #4 meanwhile, bizarrely enough Dr. Horrible’s on the list at #8, despite it being at least a year since there were any new episodes!

» 10 Things that True Blood Owes to Buffy
Some similarities between the two shows. Pretty superficial things but an amusing read if you love both shows.

That’s all for today. Any random news bits that I find during the day I usually end up posting them on DTD’s Twitter, so follow me there to get random, sporadic updates from me.

» 22 TV Series not Ruined When Two Characters Hooked Up
Buffy and Angel feature on this list as a show which didn’t suffer after they hooked up and I can most definitely agree. I’m not usually much of a shipper. Buffy and Angel remain the only pairing in TV out there at the moment that I still love and think that it actually did the series good.

» Looking Forward to Season 2 of Dollhouse?
Season 2 of Dollhouse isn’t far away and there’s plenty of speculation surrounding what the new season will give us. All I’m hoping for is a series I will actually enjoy watching rather than begrudgingly watching it due to some kind of sense of loyalty towards Joss! Want to see a quick bad quality preview? Here it is:

That’s all there is for today. I’m hoping to get my finger back on the pulse in good fashion. Hopefully with all the new shows starting soon I’ll have more to talk about here!

» 25 Biggest Emmy Snubs
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy (the show) and Battlestar Galactica are among those listed in EW’s 25 Biggest Emmy Snubs.

» Dollhouse Season 1 (R2) in September
Release date for Dollhouse season 1 R2 DVD has been released and it will be September. Strangely Epitaph One appears to be missing from the extras list.

» 13 Things About Supernatural
CHUD do a quick list of 13 things about Supernatural. Though the writer only seems to have made it part way through the series and isn’t up to date. Never the less highlights the good and the not so good – but working on it, bits of Supernatural.

» True Blood – All the better to eat you with …
True Blood’s first airing in the UK is tomorrow on FX and here the Telegraph gives a run down of what to expect. Apparently it will air on Channel 4 later this year. Light years behind the States. *sigh*

» EW’s Ask Ausiello
LOADS of scoop on Grey’s, albeit drip fed. Some news on Bones, Fringe, Glee and Dollhouse too.

» Megan Fox as Buffy?
IGN listed her as an actress they’d like to see as Buffy in the rumoured Buffy movie. The rumours now spreading that she’s a likely candidate. It’s ALL rumour, not helped by the fact that Megan is appearing in a massive movie opening next week in the UK – so it’s good PR for her and Transformers 2!

» Firefly MMO Becoming Vaporware?
another article on the much mooted Firefly MMO. Nothing new.

» Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog
With the Dr. Horrible DVD now being available in a few more places, not just exclusively Amazon, more reviews are beginning to surface.

» Getting Lost: Is a Full-On Flight 815 Reunion Headed Our Way?
Spoilerish news on the upcoming season of Lost! Very exciting stuff!

» Anna Friel Wants Wonder Woman Role
According to ContactMusic.com Anna Friel wants the Wonder Woman role – a movie that Joss was writing then he wasn’t and now is floating in thin air.

» Stop Pretending that Buffy’s Giles Spin-Off Will Happen
Sentiments I completely agree with. Sure with Buffy season 8 there’s been a surge of new interest in all things Buffy. And now with the Buffy movie rumours everything’s surged again. However this rumour has been doing the rounds since God knows when, and yes people are interested, but I’ll believe it when I see a pilot.

» Five Reasons Why the Buffy Reboot Won’t Work
As the title suggests, someone writes about not looking forward to a potential Buffy movie reboot. Really, their five reasons are so superficial it makes me wonder about the writer of the article.

» Interview with Julie Benz
Julie talks about her love of Twitter.

» TV Guide Megabuzz: Supernatural, Stargate: Universe and more
More news from TVGuide on the upcoming new seasons. Interesting that they say that there could be more Supernatural past season 5 but without Eric Kripke. Well, that doesn’t sound good. And more things about Stargate: Universe that make me cringe.

Quick question – What should I do with this place over summer? Things are going to get quiet, news wise, anyone think of anything I could do?

Think about that while you read today’s news:

» Angel #20 Comic Review
A painful review of the recent Angel comic. Can’t say I blame them for the rating they gave the comic. It’s spot on, I gave up on the comic after the world reset itself.

» Buffy Remake gets us Thinking about Other TV we want to see on the Big Screen
Unfortunately the writer of this article does get one major piece of information wrong – Josh Whedon – for the love of god people, do your homework! Though on the article side of things they do their homework well and list among the TV shows Dark Angel, which I personally would love to see rebooted as a movie. Bring Jessica back as Max Guevera please! It IS the best thing she’s done!

Now for today’s news:

» 5 Reasons why new Buffy Might be Better without Joss Whedon and 1 Reason why it Won’t
I agree with 4 out of the 5 reasons – I don’t agree that Joss has the worst endings ever. But in some ways I too am ‘done’ with Buffy as a character too. Well I know I’m done with the comics! Read it and make your own mind up.

» Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Movie: The Remake
TWOP take a look at what kind of disaster could be ahead of us with this potential Buffy movie.

» Why Joss and Buffy Don’t Need Each Other
io9.com gives their reasons as to why it could also be a good thing for Joss to let go of Buffy.

» Summer in Dollhouse? Maybe
Joss tells Michael Ausiello that Summer could be in Dollhouse, just not as a doll. Please, don’t let them ruin Summer’s career!

» The Guardian Reviews The Target
The Guardian reviews the second episode of Dollhouse, which aired last night in the UK. Not a favourable review and they really don’t like Eliza! Well… her acting ’skills’.

» Fans call for X-Men 4 with Joss Whedon directing – do you agree?
So 1000 people have signed an online petition for this to happen. Seriously, who takes online petitions seriously anymore and since when did 1000 people make anything worth while? Yes I’m just linking this to ridicule it a bit.

Also in today’s news – Scoop on Chuck over at TV Guide.com where they say that despite having only initially 13 episodes of Chuck season 2 planned in, there are still plans to extend it if the ratings are good.

And on that link some news on Eureka’s return – July 10th with Billy Campbell as a guest star! Very exciting stuff!

» Is Angel as good as Buffy?
Found this article from a couple of days ago. Posting it here mostly to say HELL YES and BETTER. Yes, I do most certainly choose Angel over Buffy.

Dollhouse Finale Ratings Tank
One of the many reports doing the rounds on the poor, poor ratings of last week’s Dollhouse finale. Yes there are many excuses like ‘Star Trek’ and others, but really they are excuses. Dollhouse fans wouldn’t be so worried about finale ratings if it was doing well in the first place. And yes you can throw the ‘It’s on a Friday and no one stays in on Fridays’ excuse at me too. Sadly I just don’t care enough anymore.

» Epitaph One to screen Exclusively at Comic Con
End of Show has revealed that they’ll be an exclusive screening of the 13th episode of Dollhouse at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.

» Nathan Fillion Talks Castle, Dollhouse & Dr. Horrible
Brief interview with the former captain. Twice.

» Writing Buffy Comics was a Rude Awakening says James Marsters
James has his say on the Buffy comics, past and present. He wasn’t happy back then. This is an edited version of the original article that was initially posted.

» Dark Horse Responds to Buffy Actor James Marsters Comics Comments
Dark Horse responds to the above statement made by James.

» Should Sarah Michelle Gellar make a Buffy Movie?
E!Online asks this question and the answer is most definitely a no. We’ll revisit this rumor once again, same time next year?

» Amber Benson on Books, Body Image, and Why Buffy Kicks Twilight’s Butt
Awesome interview with more awesome Amber Benson.