The Known Dollhouse Schedule
Note: As of Wednesday, October 21, the below no longer is accurate, as per the announcement of Dollhouse going on hiatus for the November sweeps period.
It’s time once again for people to become confused about the future of Dollhouse and it’s airing schedule, due to there being no episode this Friday. So here’s what we know right now regarding the coming months.
- This week, and this one week only, Dollhouse is preempted by a postseason Major League Baseball game. This has been known for months and is entirely expected.
- Dollhouse returns next Friday, October 23, with “Belonging”, a Sierra-centric episode written by Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon, and directed by Jonathan Frakes.
- The following Friday, October 30, is “The Public Eye” the first of a two parter and the first episode featuring guest star Summer Glau.
- As far as we know, the second part of that story, “The Left Hand” airs the following Friday, November 6. I don’t recall offhand if this is specifically listed somewhere, but I haven’t heard otherwise either.
- November is sweeps, and FOX’s scheduler recently told The Hollywood Reporter that there might need to be some preemption in favor of more popular programs in order to boost ratings for the month. Of course, if Dollhouse’s own ratings improve enough, all bets are off on that count. (This is the same article in which it was said that FOX intends to air all 13 episodes of its current order for Dollhouse.)
- In FOX’s just-announced holiday schedule, there is a new Dollhouse episode listed for December 18, and back-to-back encore presentations (read: reruns) on Christmas Day, December 25. I’ll link this once I actually see it posted somewhere.
That we have a sense of December and not a sense of November doesn’t mean anything at this point, because it’s simply that FOX just announced their holiday schedule.
Also, the fact that said schedule announcement didn’t mention episodes on other Fridays in December doesn’t mean anything either. Since the holiday schedule announcement only discusses nights where there are holiday-themed programs airing, or other special events such as Fall finale episodes, it only needed to mention December 18 (when Dollhouse’s lead-ins have holiday episodes) and December 25 (which is Christmas itself).
As far as I know, that’s where the known Dollhouse schedule currently stands. As of this particular moment, it’s apparently relatively stable. Mainly, the wait is for the network’s decision on November (the month, not the Active).
None of this, of course, means to be complacent about continuing to avail yourselves of sites such as Activate Dollhouse, Why I Watch, Is DOLLHOUSE Back Yet? (disclosure: that one’s mine) and others, or about generally continuing to support and promote the show.
If you’re a Nielsen family, live is best, DVR second best. And all viewers should be buying episodes on iTunes or Amazon and re-watching via Hulu or FOX.com itself.
Buy A Birthday b!X Photo
After a heady comparison between SmugMug and Zenfolio, last week I moved my photography sales from a self-hosted solution to the latter service and a new domain. And so The One True b!X | Photos awaits your order.
While I lose the ability to check each and every order with my own eyes (the self-hosted solution used a local shop to produce the prints), prospective customers now have a much wider range of print sizes from which to choose. They also now have several framing options. In addition, orders to the UK and Europe now are supported as well, although for those customers fewer print sizes, and no framing options, are available.
This switch also means that photographs now are separated out into six categories: animals, buildings, landscapes, objects, people, and plant life. There are some surprises within each category, so be sure to explore, but hopefully this addresses a long-standing request to make it easier for customers to hone in on specific wants.
To celebrate the relaunch of my photography sales, as well as my upcoming birthday, the coupon code “bixphotosrelaunch” will save you $5 off any order until the end of the month.
The Worst Pseudoscientific Ideas
The Age of American Unreason (Powells)
by Susan Jacoby
Forgotten in their original form but not gone, the worst pseudoscientific ideas emanating from the late nineteenth century are constantly being marketed under new brand names in the United States. Social Darwinism has never died: it manifested itself as a bulwark of eugenics until the Second World War; in the tedious midcentury “objectivist” philosophy of Ayn Rand; and, most recently, in the form of market economy worship that presents itself not as political opinion but as a summa of objective facts. All of the theories included in the general category of social Darwinism may be summed up in the immortal line uttered by the hero of Rand’s The Fountainhead (1943): “The only good which men can do to one another and the only statement of their proper relationship is — ‘Hands off!’” Rand was an atheist, but Americans have managed to translate her social Darwinism into the language of faith: according to a recent poll, a majority mistakenly believe that “God helps those that help themselves” is a line from the Bible.
It is useful to recall that intellectualism was not always synonymous with liberalism, especially economic liberalism, in the American mind. The irreconcilable conflict between evolutionism and biblical literalism would probably have been sufficient to engender a permanent fundamentalist antagonism towards all intellectuals and scientists who disputed any part of the creation story in Genesis. But the fact that so many prominent intellectuals once used Darwinian evolution as an argument against all social reform provided yet another reason for populist fundamentalists to dismiss not only the theory of evolution but the rich intellectuals who seemed to be its most ardent proponents. [William Jennings] Bryan would no doubt have been astonished had anyone told him 1896, when he made his “Cross of Gold” speech, that by the end of the twentieth century, many Americans who shared his religious beliefs would ally themselves with the political party favoring the interests of the rich — and that the Social Gospel, enjoining Christians to help their fellow man, would be replaced by the conviction that the Lord helps those who help themselves (and that the Bible tells us so).
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Proper Types
Taken in April of 2008, during one of my only two photo excursions with members of a local Flickr group. The typewriter pictured was, and for all I know still is, part of the decor at Proper Eats in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland.
Despite the fair number of decent photographs I’ve taken on those two photo walks, my general dislike of large group activities, and my tendency to view myself unfavorably when surrounded by more knowledgeable photograpers, has kept me from going out on another. In fact, it’s been quite a long time even since I last added any photos to the group (or any group’s) Flickr pool.
That said, Proper Types has proven to be one of my best-selling photographs, so in terms both creative and commercial that last excursion certainly was not a waste of anyone’s time. Unsurprisingly, sales of Proper Types have tended to skew towards people for whom, in some fashion, writing is an (a)vocation.
Second in an occasional series highlighting photographs available as prints for purchase. Buy a Proper Types print.
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