Ich kann gar nicht alle Quellen aufzählen, die grad von den Upfronts berichten. Ein kurzer Breakdown:

# According to Joss Whedon, Fox has ordered 13 episodes of Dollhouse.
# Fox has tentatively skedded “Dollhouse” on Mondays at 8 p.m., in front of “24”.
# the first pics from Dollhouse, courtesy of FOX. That photo with the cast transformed to “dolls” is creepy!
# Joss Whedon zur Frage, warum Craft und Fain Showrunner sein werden:

"Actually, I never confirmed a 13 episode order. But I will tomorrow. (which is in one minute -- oh. It's now.) I've spoken with the Fox brass and it's all going to be pretty exciting. As you shall read...

As for running the show, yes of course I'm running it, it's my baby, but one needs co-runners, cohorts, cohabitants, a Sundance (or two) to my Butch, a Tango to my Cash, A the-guy-with-the-nose-in-Weekend-at-Bernie's to my the-guy-from-Pretty-in-Pink-in-Weekend-at-Bernies. And those of you who underestimate Liz and Sarah remind me of the demons of the week who laughed at tiny Buffy.

The only thing that excites me as much as our staff is our cast. Seeing them work just makes ideas blossom from our writer minds (SPOILER ALERT for The Fountain) like little clovery flowers out of conquistadors (END Of SPOILER ALERT and seriously, you should see that movie. It rocks.) And Eliza can't turn off the awesome. I mean it. The army is sending in tanks.

See you on the internet. Then on TV, in theaters, and of couse in the funny papers. It's a good year. Bye-ee! -j."
# There's a two minute sneak peek of Dollhouse due to be released shortly. It's entitled "Who Are You?". ("Shortly" means: "now"!)

Abgesehen davon, dass er das Verbrechen namens "The Fountain" gut findet (neben BSG), klingt das alles ziemlich toll. Der Trailer ist irre. Und dieses Interview ist auch klasse:

Then I went into a state of blank panic. Oh, wait, all of my writers have jobs. So I went upstairs and I laid out seven notebooks, and every night I'd go up and put my seven notebooks all in a row, and I'd look and see what do we need to get from here to here. I even had to take them to New York. I thought, oh, I'd just rip off the page. 'No, you can't rip off the page. You'd kill the magic.' So I brought them to Kevin Reilly and I laid them out on his coffee table, and he said, "This is great. I love all of them." I said, "Great. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm on strike."

Auch schön, was Kevin Reilly, der neue Fox-Entertainement-Chef und die größte Hoffnung darauf, dass Dollhouse anders als Firefly leben wird, meinte:

"He had me at 'hello,' " Reilly said, admitting that the first time Whedon visited the network, "I was kinda drunk with the surprise of it all. He laid out the whole concept, but I think it was one of those things where I heard every other word of it."

Dem Kerl verdanken wir aus seiner NBC-Zeit noch die The Office-Wideraufnahme trotz miserabler Quoten in der ersten Staffel. Heute ist wie erwartet großer feel good-Tag. Morgen gibt's dann vielleicht ne detaillierte Aufarbeitung der vielen Schocks.