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Q: What happened to "Dollhouse?"

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Adam Thomlison / TV Media

Obsessive geeks and even his socially well-adjusted fans were all disappointed to hear that Joss Whedon's latest TV series, "Dollhouse," has been cancelled.

Fox made the announcement just a few weeks ago, halfway through the season they nearly didn't give it in the first place.

"I'm grateful that we got to put it on, and then come back and put it on again," Whedon said on his website, Whedonesque.com, about the show and its last-minute revival for a second season.

The good news is that the network has promised to air all 13 episodes of the second season, which puts the season finale on schedule for Jan. 22, 2010.

This is an act of kindness by the network that killed his cult-favourite series "Firefly" abruptly mid-season, forcing fans to buy the DVD set (which they did in droves) to catch the final few episodes, which had already been produced.

"I'm off to pursue Internet ventures/binge drinking," Whedon said. "Possibly that relaxation thing I've read so much about."

But the aforementioned obsessive geeks made it clear they wouldn't go quietly. They're already clamoring for a comic-book continuation of the series (which Whedon did with all three of his previous television series - "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel" and "Firefly") or maybe even moving it to the Internet (Whedon produced a 'Net-only film, "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," last year.

As is the case with painters as well as much of Whedon's other work, it seems "Dollhouse" is more famous in death. New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, and many other magazines ran major stories about its demise, social-media service Twitter was full of talk about the show, and shortly after the cancellation Amazon.com put the first season of Dollhouse at number 22 in its list of the top DVD releases of 2009.

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