Last year at ComicCon there was a load of buzz about the muted buffy spin off Ripper being nearly signed and sealed… Then… Nothing… So, what’s the status at the moment. Well, due to Dollhouse being picked up, pretty much up in the air still…
From Digital Spy who spoke to Anthony Head recently:
“The latest is that I was over in LA last year at about this time. I bumped into Julie Gardner from BBC Wales who said ‘has anything ever happened to that?’ And at the same time I had …

This is awesome news!
Angel alumni Amy Acker (say that fast 5 time in a row!) is setting up residency in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse as Dr. Claire Saunders. Dr. Saunders is described as “The dolls doctor with an an acid wit” (usually aimed at the Dolls programming genius/computer geek, Topher.)
Amy proved her acting range in Angel with the incredible switch from the shy and geeky Fred to the awesomely powerful demon Illyria. Should be a great addition to the rest of the cast. There’s still a few spaces in the Dollhouse …

Variety has another casting update for Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Adelle DeWitt, the Dollhouse’s ruthless but protective boss is being played by British actress, Olivia Williams. You may have seen as Bruce Willis’s wife in The Sixth Sense, and playing opposite Bill Murray in Rushmore. Should be a really good addition to the cast.
For info on the rest of the Dollhouse casting so far, click here.

Hollywood Reporter has a small casting update on Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse. Dollhouse, follows a group of people known as actives or ‘dolls’ who have had their personalities wiped clean to allow them to be imprinted with new personas. They are then hired out for various tasks (some legal, some not so legal). At the end of the job, they are mind-wiped again into a child-like state, and housed together in a hidden futuristic dormitory/laboratory nicknamed “The Dollhouse”.
The Cast So Far:

Eliza Dushku plays the lead character, Echo. She is a ‘doll’ …

Much as it’d be entertaining to see a huge rumble between The Operative, Jean Luc and Gandalf… (or The Operative, Proffesor X and Magneto for that matter…) Really, this post was to say congratulations to Chiwetel Ejiofor for beating both Ian McKellen’s King Lear, and Patrick Stewart’s Macbeth in the Olivier Awards this weekend!
Chiwetel Ejiofor, who played The Operative in Joss Whedon’s Serenity beat 2 of the uk’s thepiest of thespian’s to take the Best Actor Olivier for his performance in Othello at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
Shiny!
More …

Joss Whedon’s returning to TV! - WOO and indeed HOOOOO!
As any regular reader will know know, here at Geektown we’re HUGE fans of Joss’s, and we say any news that he’s coming back to the small screen can only be good.
So what is it?
Well, it’s not in the Buffyverse. It does however, star a buffy alumni - The lovely Eliza Dushku.
It’s called ‘Dollhouse‘:
“Dollhouse stars Dushku as Echo, one of a group of secret agents living in a futuristic dorm. Each has the ability to be …