Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE FOX TV series - FANSITE - Watching Dollhouse

Cool, someone else getting some focus. Hopefully Fox will follow suit! The LA Times take a look at Tahmoh Penikett, who portrays Paul Ballard in “Dollhouse”, one of their “faces to watch” for 2009.

The actor will also have to dodge Whedon fans’ anxiety over “Dollhouse.” Rife with rewrites and reshoots, the series’ troubled production has been documented online by those who remember all too well the doomed trajectory of Whedon’s last show, “Firefly,” but Penikett is too excited to care.

“I don’t like panicking,” he said while relaxing over an Americano in Century City’s Clementine cafe. “I’m also old enough now where I try not to stress over things too much.”

In the first episode of “Dollhouse,” Paul is revealed to be a lethal combination of loner and relentless cop. Penikett couldn’t resist.

“I’ve been wanting to play someone darker. Helo’s got his demons, but ultimately he’s the most moral, ethical, family-man hero there is,” Penikett said. “Paul, you question right off the bat. He’s divorced, doesn’t have a lot of friends, messed up career-wise a few times and very self-righteous. I immediately wanted to play around with this guy.”

“I knew ‘Battlestar’ would go on for a while. You could feel it,” Penikett said.

He added that the feeling was the same on “Dollhouse” — even while he was having a tough time keeping track of his character’s now-jumbled story. “One of the writers told me they had to make a chart for Paul’s arc to keep it all straight,” he said. “We just shot Episode 9, and I’m only now beginning to figure things out.”

They’re all good things, he added quickly with a laugh. But patience will be key.

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Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible) has admitted that he’d jump at the chance to appear on Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse”.

Asked about appearing in Dollhouse, Harris laughed. “Wow! Well, you know, I’m in CBS’ corner right now because of How I Met Your Mother, so I don’t know that I’d be able to, but I think it’s produced by 20th Century Fox, so, you know, they’re sort of cousins,” he said. “That would be fun! All right. I’ll ask Joss! I like being a cousin in the Whedon family, so whatever he wants me to do. Except porn.”

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Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori and Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly speak a bit about their “Dollhouse” scheduling choices:

CI: Many people were surprised that you didn’t put Whedon’s “Dollhouse” in one of those post-”Idol” spots, instead opting for the relatively sleepy zone of Fridays. Why put such a buzzed-about show on that night?

Liguori: It’s a night where there’s not a hell of a lot of competition. So we’re able to get the show on there. We’re able to allow the show to grow. The expectations may be slightly lower for its performance.

Reilly: By nature, this show has a particular kind of audience. That’s just what Joss does. You could say, why “Lie to Me” [on Wednesdays] after “Idol”? I think that’s a broader show. You don’t want to put in something with more of a sci-fi bent.

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CI: On Mondays, you’ve had “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” which has struggled for traction in its second season and is about to move to Fridays to join “Dollhouse.” Why’s “Sarah Connor” so ratings-challenged?

Reilly: Overall, the numbers are not where we hoped they’d be. And yet it has a very, very loyal core audience. Ultimately, moving it to Fridays, pairing it with “Dollhouse,” felt like a cohesive strategy, two very compatible shows. Hopefully the Joss loyalists will show up.

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Dollhouse actor Eliza Dushku makes the cover of the next issue of SFX Magazine:

Surely a better sell would be to also feature some of the other talent on the show?

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Mark Sheppard has been speaking to iFMagazine about his role on Dollhouse:

 I’m on DOLLHOUSE. I play a wonderful character named Tanaka who interacts with Tahmoh Penikett character.

iF: Do you have a recurring on DOLLHOUSE?

SHEPPARD: I’m actually doing my second episode as we speak.
iF: How did DOLLHOUSE happen?

SHEPPARD: Joss wrote a role into DOLLHOUSE, and it sort of ended up in my lap, and I was “absolutely,” I would love the opportunity to come and play with him again.

He also talks about his roles on “Leverage”, “BSG”, “Medium”, “Firefly” and a bunch of other stuff. Follow the link to read whole article.