Short of a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion movie, this is just about the best news you
could ask for: Eliza Dushku and Joss Whedon are reteaming for a new series! (Told ya it
would be worth tearing yourself away from the candy corn to drop by The Ausiello
Report.) Here are the five things you have to know about the show, and I mean now:

1. It\'s a one-hour drama produced by 20th Century Fox to air on Fox. The first of the seven
episodes to which the network has committed could premiere as early as spring.

2. It\'s called Dollhouse because that\'s the nickname of the high-tech lab where a group of
human chalkboards are kept between assignments.

3. Human chalkboards?! Yes! What else would you call characters like Dushku\'s Echo
who can be given new memories, skills and even personalities, then stripped of them just
as quickly, leaving them virtual children.

4. Whedon is the creator, head writer and executive producer, and perhaps in part
because Dushku convinced him to do the show, she\'s getting a producer credit. (Fellow
Buffyverse alum Tim Minear is also on board.)

5. I just got off the phone with both of them!

First things first: How in the hellmouth did Dushku get her Buffy and Angel boss to do it? In
a word, food. Shortly after she signed a development deal with Fox in August, "I called the
one man that I knew I wanted to do [a series] with and had to have to have the best show
possible" and invited him to lunch, she says. "And he was seduced!"

Actually, hypnotized, Whedon counters. "Eliza was wearing a hat with a big spiraling
wheel on it, and she kept saying, \'Look into the wheel. You want to make television. You
want it to be about me… \' It sounds hokey, but it really worked."

And how. Not only did Dushku get Whedon to agree to work on the project, but what she
calls their "contagious, freaky, awesome energy" at that very get-together inspired him to
create it. "I came up with [the concept] at lunch completely spontaneously, based on my
conversation with Eliza," he insists. "It wasn\'t [an idea] that I was nurturing or that I
tailored or I tried to retro-fit to her."

So what is the concept, exactly? Explains Whedon: "Dollhouse is a suspense drama
about a girl who can have any personality except her own." So it\'s part Alias and part
Quantum Leap, "because Echo is literally changing who she is," he continues. "She gets
into people\'s lives a little bit."

Even Dushku\'s. "I relate so much to this character," she marvels. "Echo is essentially the
story of my life. I\'ve lived a crazy life the past 16 years, traveling around the world and then tripping and falling into this business. Everyone wants you to transform and be a different
person every week."

Great chemistry and intriguing premise notwithstanding, you\'d think that after Fox snuffed
Whedon\'s Firefly and hung up on Dushku\'s Tru Calling, one or both of them would have
been more than a little hesitant to get back into bed with the network. "Honestly? Walking
back into that building was pretty damn strange," Whedon admits. But "I always had a
good relationship with [20th Century Fox], and on the network end, it\'s a completely new
bunch of people, and from what I’ve seen, a fairly impressive bunch."

Dushku seconds that emotion. "I really get the sense that they\'re committed to [this show]… It feels right."

Besides, as Whedon notes, "I told them I was interested in writing a pilot, and they gave
me seven episodes. They’ve already shown more support for it than I have."

Now it\'s your turn to show the comeback kids some love. And, like Dushku, I don\'t think
you\'ll let them down. "We have the best fans in the business [in the] the Buffy and
Whedon universe," she says. "It’s going to be pandemonium when this [news] hits." And
it\'s only just begun. —

Source: TVGuide.com

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