2% budget cut for Dollhouse.
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UPDATED: Saturday, February 28, 2009 01:41
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In an effort to reduce cost, 20th Century Fox Television has asked that 2% be cut from many of their series, including from Joss Whedon's new series, Dollhouse. "Everyone understands that revenues are down and these steps are necessary to protect our business," a studio spokesman tells TVWeek.
Cross-posted from Shiny Universe.
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Oh my God! 2%! There goes the series.
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Traveler
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My questions is simplu, "Why not cut 2% from Fringe or House?"
Sheesh!
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LOL...though, you never know with the FOX Execs. I'm sure the various productions are saying that they can't lose any percentages. If that's the case, then it'll likely come down to who has the most leverage.
This sort of begs the question of which series will win over the other when it comes down to a budgetary fight to the death.
House vs. Dollhouse?
Bones vs. Dollhouse?
Prison Break vs. Dollhouse?
Sarah Connor vs. Dollhouse?
Fringe vs. Dollhouse?
etc.
What do you think?
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Not seeing any Dollhouse episodes yet, I don't know how much special effects they are going to use.I suspect they series with the higher budget on the effects is going to have to reduce these. This means more reliance on the writers. Imagination costs less. If the writers for Sarah Connors come up with stories requiering fewer rooms with computer banks and less exploding vehicles they would more then reduce their budget by 2%. I also feel Sarah Connors is getting to complex. To many story lines. Bring some to an end and reduce the personnel. Dollhouse appears to be not to far in the future, so sets will more then likely be contemporary. No need to create a spacecraft or other special sets. Will have to wait and see. Most everything for this season is probably already produced. It will be next season that shows any difference.
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Same thing happened over at ABC-they cut Nathan's series, Castle, to 10 episodes from 13. And not only his series, but the other new one too (the name escapes me right now).
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There's also a rumor going around that the Screen Actors Guild might strike. That will definitely do some serious damage to any new series that are trying to build an audience.
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I...just don't see that this is a good time to strike anyway, in this economic climate, I mean.
The sensible Chrisisall
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Originally posted by BlackCatLady:
My questions is simplu, "Why not cut 2% from Fringe or House?"
Sheesh!
Uh, because it'd be stupid to cut the budgets on their highest rated shows.
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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The SAG is still taking about a strike? No kidding?
If that happens, it will kill a lot of new shows. And so many people can give a rats a$$ about an actors strike.
Definetly not a good time for SAG strike....
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