° After what seemed like an unusually long wait, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Virgin1) finally got the call for another season; a 13 episode order with a chance for 9 more if all goes well. I think that's a very fair decision. While personally I'm still not convinced the show has a great deal of depth to it - "like butter scraped over too much bread", as Bilbo Baggins might say - there's certainly still some mileage to be had out of it, and there's no reason to assume the show can't improve now some of the initial kinks have been ironed out. Let's just hope David from Beverly Hills 90210 gets ironed out soon too, because seriously...Brian Austen Green? No, no, no, no.
° When Dollhouse was first revealed as Joss Whedon's new project, I was surprisingly subdued about it all. A huge part of me was geeking out purely for the love of Joss, but everything else about the project sounded slightly unappealing. I'm not sure how I feel about Eliza Dushku when she's not Faith, I'm not a great fan of the former-Angel scribes Fain and Craft, and the premise in general seemed a little bit too stuff for my liking. Well, all has changed. The reasons...
Olivia Williams and Amy Acker join Joss Whedon's Dollhouse
The two final pieces to round off quite the motley crew, and I think they're both fantastic casting. Olivia Williams is tremendous and will bring a real mature presence to the show, and as for Amy Acker...well, what can I say? It's great that she'll be working on a show on which the showrunner is as besotted with her as we all are. As I write this, filming should have actually started...eek!
° Good old Beeb. Bowing to the pressure of quite frankly insane fan interest, the BBC have crowned Being Human the winner of their BBC Three pilot season and ordered a 6 episode season. That's good news. In fact, I think it's actually the first time I've ever been excited to see a British drama series come to fruition. I expect it'll be a new experience for many of us.
° Let's talk Lost. It was supposed to return to Sky One for the second half of Season 4 this Sunday (27th April) and now it's not. Instead the show will return on Sunday May 4th, meaning that we will be running a full ten days behind US pace. It's a move that will divide hardcore fans, but personally I'm with Sky 100%. In another piece of intelligent scheduling, Sky are merely trying to spare us the horror of yet another mid-season interruption, one that actually would have been due the week before the finale(!). Those things are a freakin' nightmare for everyone, and I for one applaud Sky for having the foresight to realise that.
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