Fox changes DH schedule

Posted by admin on October 22, 2009

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) — Less than a week after announcing its November sweeps schedule, FOX is already making some changes.

Network sources have confirmed Friday entries “Brothers,” “‘Til Death” and “Dollhouse” will all go on hiatus after their October 23 airings. A rebroadcast of “House’s” two-hour season premiere will sub in for the night on October 30 with additional repeats of “House” and “Bones” taking over for the rest of the month.

“Dollhouse” will then return with back-to-back originals starting at 8:00/7:00c on December 4, 11 and 18.

As for the comedies, “Brothers” will permanently shift to Sundays at 7:00/6:00c starting November 8 with back-to-back originals also set for December 13 and 27. No return date for “‘Til Death” however was given.

To recap:

Fridays (December 4-18)
8:00/7:00c – “Dollhouse”
9:00/8:00c – “Dollhouse”

Damn! That’s a sad news indeed. But let’s try to look at the bright side: at least both episodes will air on the same day which is a good thing considering it’s a two parter.

Filed Under: Dollhouse Comments: 29 Comments to Read

Uberangel said,

Everyone say goodbye to Dollhouse…i don’t think it will be renewed…

Damn you FOX…at least after this we can be done with you!
Kirirur said,

Hmmm, FOX’s official schedule is still showing Dollhouse for the next week:

http://www.fox.com/schedule.htm?src=menu_item_schedule#week:2009-10-25

Lazy webmaster?
Uwe said,

The first step of Dollhouse cancellation. Trust me this will happen, and then has Summer time to do a really good SciFi movie.
Rodrigo Sotero said,

FOX is making me angry…i don’t like being angry…Ò_Ó !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrr !!!!
ryan said,

fox.. it’s a little late for april fools
sipovic said,

Fox is the purest form of evil!
It looks like the will be no Summer till december (
M.Reed said,

I hate fox so much…
First they canceled “Firefly”, then “TTSCC”
and now Summer joins “Dollhouse” and this happens.
I won’t be surprised if this gets canceled too…
Did i mention i HATE fox.
martinpe said,

Why am I not surprised with Fox?
The1Russter said,

I’ve been watching DH this season so I could understand what is happening by the time Summer made her appearance as Bennett. Now they they decide to hold any more episodes until December, makes the whole point of watching it pointless. I’ll forget everything by the time the show airs in December, and I’m not going to waste time downloading DH or watching it again on the internet. I’d share a few choice words on my opinion about FOX, but I don’t want to end up banned from this website. To put it simply @*^V#$-%* FOX!
jr said,

Fox is lazy
So_Gorramn_Cute said,

Why don’t they just come right out and say it? FOX HATES SUMMER GLAU I’ve been sayig it. F’ Fox is RIGHT!
Brian_R said,

I’m not going to say anything about FOX here. (I’ll save my comments for the Forum and Wiki)

What I will say is: I’ll be glad to see Summer on Dec. 4th, as an early Christmas Gift. To see her smile, hear her unique voice and her laugh and all her Glau-ness will be nothing less than superb.

Merry Christmas early Summer… (HoHoHo)
Alex said,

Fox is once again pulling its usual stuff. They will probably cancel Dollhouse just like they cancelled Firefly and TSCC. I hate fox with a passion.
Ban_D said,

@Alex: yep, always the same story it seems.
Maybe the decisionmakers would ‘need a treatment’?
Rezan said,

What??? That means we have to wait until 4/12??
DAMN FOX!!!
David L. Craig said,

Look at it this way, y’all. Josh now knows he needs to be putting his next project together and pray like anything he can sell the concept to a different group.
So_Gorramn_Cute said,

Maybe just Maybe a certain DVD movie WILL come to fruition?
K.W. Wilson said,

Well said Brian R!

Though I WILL say something about Fox… I am putting THEM on Hiatus after tonight until 12/4.

Turnabout as they say…
TheGoldenHood said,

The acting world is a TOUGH one. My best advice for Summer at this point is to return to school and get an Associates or Bachleor’s Degree in something she really enjoys while acting on the side. She once admitted to never attending college except for extra-curricular classes so now should be the time. This is what I am doing as a failed actor, myself.
Estefferson Torres said,

Oh my Summer! I thought to see Bennett this month yet… Now i’ll have to wait till december?

But i’ll wait because of Summer!!!
martin said,

summer needs to wash her hands with doing programmes for FOX, anything summer appears in, FOX seems to play and mess around with it. im sure other networks would be delighted to have such a wondeful actress.
PMGStubbs said,

this is horrible news, i’ll remain positive and say it’ll be worth waiting for if we do eventually get to see Summer as Bennett but it will be agnonising. Fox do themselves no favours with us at all.
Rodrigo Sotero said,

Brian_R is right, but it’s not easy (to me, FOR SURE. To other ppl also, i guess) to get over it. FUX is messing with us, all the time. This last event is an undeniable proof of this…¬¬
One Inch Man said,

It’s really not that bad guys.
Fox has bent over backwards to help this show from the very start. It would be irresponsible of Fox to air Dollhouse during sweeps and would lose them *a lot* of money.
Their only mistake really was not making it perfectly clear in the initial press release, rather than hinting heavily at their intentions as they did.
Just consider, given the ratings Dollhouse has had from the start, if it were any other show it would have been pulled from the schedule and production shut down before Summer even had the chance to set foot on set.
Fox have really done Summer a fans a big favour keeping it alive long enough for her to be in it, let alone promising to air her episodes too.
I’m not trying to cause an argument, I just want to point out the reality of the situation in this case.
I still hate what Fox did to Firefly but they really have, for the most part, done everything right as far as DH is concerned.
Just my thoughts on the matter.
formytots0128 said,

Thanks for the info, Cristelle.

I am just thankful that we get to see Summer in December and then her “Deadly Honeymoon” movie early next year. I hope that “Good Morning Rabbit” pilot gets on the air soon too.

I am not surprised at all by how Fox managed the Dollhouse episodes. They did a similar programming change to TSCC by putting it on mid season hiatus. This really killed the show along w/ the move to Friday nights. I am sure that they will fail to remind the fans of the show when the new DH episodes will air. They must still have the same management working there when TSCC got cancelled. Same MO (method of operation).
One_Angry_V said,

Jeez, when I think FOX can’t make more stupid things than they’d already done, they prove me wrong. Really sad news, since I wanted to see Summer’s DH episodes so much it hurt.
Dwnldz_5 said,

Sad news. But as long as Fox don’t change their mind about showing those episodes, I’m happy.
Devo said,

You guy got to turn these lemons into lemonade.

Sure, we all know whats coming, no S3 of DH. Episode 5 is pushed back until December, thank you Fox…

But on the bright side we will get 2 hours back-to-back of Summer Glau on Television again.

And for the record, it is not just Fox. Look what happened to Kings… Ian McShane rocked the house, and it was canceled.

Network TV is just bad. Be thankful we got cable.
Alexis said,

Fox strikes again.