Thomas Dekker talks 'Sarah Connor Chronicles' post cancellation

The TV Addict: How do you feel about being here in Toronto right now instead of the Warner Bros. lot shooting season three of the show?

Thomas Dekker: I definitely miss the show a lot. In fact, it sort of catches me off guard how much I miss the show sometimes. I really miss the people I got to work with everyday and the environment of knowing where you were working on a daily basis. And of course, the story. I loved the story and I knew where the third season was going and I thought it was just so cool. I love that Josh [Executive Producer Josh Friedman] had the balls to make everybody kind of wait, and be patient. Unfortunately I guess people really weren’t that willing to be patient.

Since you brought it up, just how cool was season three going to be?

I’ve divulged too much in the past [so I have to be careful as to not piss off Josh] but I mean it was going to be really interesting because there were questions in the future like is Sarah Connor at the age she would be in the future or is she already dead? I know which one that is, and it was the more interesting of the two to me. Plus what is she doing in the past? Also my sort of relationship with Allison and finding Cameron would play a large part in the season, do I go with the robot I know or do I go with the human that doesn’t know me? The fact that Danny Dyson became a very important part of it was also very exciting because it harkened back directly to the second film.

Has there been any talk of continuing the story in a different form, a comic book perhaps?

They’ve spoken about doing a TV movie. Well, not a TV movie, but kind of like a direct-to-DVD movie [Think: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA's THE PLAN]. Obviously it’s difficult because the show is based on a movie and they just had one come out, so it’s kind of hard to make a movie with our show because everyone has kind of forgotten about us. But they’re hoping, at least when I spoke to [Producer] James Middleton that’s where they are with it.

When did you find out that TERMINATOR had been officially terminated?

Obviously we’d seen the ratings and we had an inkling about it. But it was tricky, because the show was so popular overseas. In the end, it really came down to DOLLHOUSE or us and that was sort of what happened. I think we were too expensive and DOLLHOUSE was a lot cheaper.

So pretty much your salary cost us another season?!

[Laughs] It wasn’t my salary let me tell you that much! But I think that it ultimately did come down to money.

Where were you when you found out?

I ultimately found out while I was shooting Nightmare on Elm Street, I got a text from Josh that was typically Josh, “Show’s cancelled. Call me.” And that was that.

What inspired you to take to the internet and post a video on YouTube video?

I was in Chicago doing the movie and we were shooting nightshifts. Having just woken up, I was surfing the net just to see how people were reacting to the show and I found myself really touched by videos, blogs and all these things that random people of all ages and groups had done to try and save the show. It was nice to get the affirmation that people wanted more of something we worked so hard on. So I just kind of thought it would be funny of me to ask FOX to give me my job for another year. I really just wanted to make something to let them [the fans] know that we knew they were trying and we appreciated it and appreciate them. The best part was that a lot of people though that I was drunk, stoned or f*cked up. Which tends to happen a lot of my stuff. I can assure you, I have many moments of non-sobriety but that wasn’t one of them. It’s actually really funny that I sort of come off as a crack head even though I’m not.

Looking back, to you have a favourite episode?

I’d say the bit that really just summed up the whole show to me was the ending montage of “Adam Raised a Cain,” where it’s the song that little Savannah Weaver was singing with John Henry, and they’re burying Derek and Sarah’s been arrested. i just think that that is a testament to the beauty of the show. It was a piece that was so poetic to me and one that you don’t normally see in a sci fi television vehicle. Moments like that made me very proud. And obviously I loved our last episode ‘Born to Run.”

Is there anything, be it a performance or an episode, that you would love the ability to travel back in time and change?

I wish I wasn’t so fat by the end of the season. But other than that, no. You know, I think all of us are pretty satisfied and proud. Even the episode that got kind of dissed or whatever, like the 20’s episode [Self Made Man], which was more experimental — I liked and thought it was high concept sci fi.

Garret Dillahunt is on what seems to be 15 different shows this fall, Summer [Glau] has jumped to Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE, what’s next for you?

I’m doing movies right now, which is nothing against TV, but I’ve done a lot of TV and I’m really trying to branch out and I’m having a really good time with that. I did an indie called All About Evil, then Nightmare on Elm Street and next up is another indie that I start in two weeks but can’t disclose what it is yet. But it’s with a filmmaker that I’ve wanted to work with for my entire life, so I’m really excited. So yeah, I’m getting to do all this stuff, but it’s not the family like TERMINATOR. I miss the family

Source: thetvaddict.com

Great interview, damn I really miss that show!.

I still think FOX could have gotten rid of any number of their crappy reality shows to carve out a budget and keep TSCC alive.

Doubtful the DVD movie will happen but it would be awesome!.

I wonder if we'll see Lena Headey in any more t.v. projects, or whether she's going to stick to movies only after this.

TSCC's Summer Glau thanks the fans

Dear Friends,

Here is my long overdue thank you note to anyone and every person who has watched our pride and joy Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles… Now that our season is done and I somehow feel far away, I want to say that it wouldn’t have been possible without faithful viewers; and it wouldn’t have been fun to make without such sincere interest from you…

I choose to post my note on Cristelle’s website so that I could also thank her for the beautiful work she has done, on my behalf, for this site. I come here to reminisce from time to time because she has posted so many of my best memories. Thank you Cristelle…

Anyway, I just want to say that acting for anyone who enjoys it is a privilege. Thank you all for helping make that possible. I am devastated that our show will not be back (Jameron forever!!!), but I can’t say that I’m ungrateful for the opportunity to be part of something so special. I’m really proud of what our team put together and eternally thankful to all of you for embracing what we were trying to do…

I love Josh very much and thank him. He pushed to make me part of this cast and created a series that was unique and beautiful. James Middleton held us together, staying with us everyday on set and talking us through every step… John Wirth and Jill Danton are all- stars that I pray I work with again….ALL of our writers. Toni, thank you for giving me Allison from Palmdale…

I was just going through my scripts this morning… (I thought it was time). I picked up-

“Born To Run”

written by Josh Friedman

I’m going to miss that so much. I’m really sad…

You know I’m not good at posting things but this is my effort. I’m not very brilliant, witty or poetic like my mentors (you know who they are) but I love you, S

Source: summer-glau.net

I've got 3 words for you Summer. Joss. Whedon. Dollhouse. ;)

Also I have to say that is a very nice site indeed compliments to the webmaster. I may just visit it from time to time to see what Summer is doing next.

Final few words from TTSCC's Josh Friedman

By now most of you have heard the news that T:SCC is cancelled. I received a call earlier today from Peter Roth at Warner Bros. and I appreciate both his personal and professional support throughout this show’s life. I know a lot of you are angry about the cancellation and want to find a place to direct your anger and to that I say do yourself a favor and find a way to move past it. Every network wants a big fat hit, especially one with a brand name behind it, and Fox was/is no different. They supported the show, they supported my vision of the show, and they gave it plenty of time to find an audience.

And what an audience we found: passionate, intelligent, kind of nuts in a good way. My only complaint about the T:SCC fans is that there aren’t ten million of them. But I prefer to be happy for the ones we had instead of lamenting the ones we didn’t.

Good shows are cancelled every year; smart shows, worthy shows, shows which move their viewers to write blogs and have viewing parties and create action figures and bury executives’ email accounts under thousands of messages. I miss Deadwood and The Wire and Arrested Development but thank God that I still have Rescue Me and The Office and a recently renewed Party Down written by ex-T:SCC writer John Enbom.

Bad shows are cancelled, too. And certainly there are those who did not like what we did and had their own vision for what a Terminator TV show should be. It’s easy to look at low ratings or cancellation as “failure” and for those who believe we’ve gone about this all wrong I’m sure today’s news will only serve to confirm a world view that I would never try to change. We’ve written the show as best we can, executed it to the best of our abilities, and sent it out in the world knowing that we worked out asses off to do something that wouldn’t be a waste of anybody’s forty-three minutes.

Thanks to a brave and talented cast, a feature crew working on a TV schedule, and everyone else who I could list but won’t because they know who they are. Mostly I’d like to thank those of you who’ve supported us and fought for us and given up hours of your life to watch our show. At the end of the day, that’s what it’s about. The watching.

Hope we do it again soon.

Josh Friedman

Reading that helped to dull the ache a little, but I think the anger (and general bitterness) I'm still feeling will take a bit longer to get over.

And frankly seeing the new shows FOX has to offer in the fall didn't really help the situation one bit.

I'm curious to see what Josh Friedman will do next (hopefully something not involving FOX). Like I said the bitterness is gonna take a while.

Source: FOX blog

'Sarah Connor Chronicles' will not be back

Sources confirm that not only has FOX officially passed on renewing Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, it’s even dead as far as Warner Brothers is concerned and they are no longer shopping it to other networks.

While this is hardly a surprise and some web sites have been reporting this cancellation for literally months now, given FOX’s surprise (to us and pretty much everyone but Joss Whedon’s Biggest Fan) renewal of Dollhouse on Friday, some might have still been hopeful.

I’m sure the fandoms will be in a tizzy over this, especially with the Dollhouse renewal, but it is what it is. By the way, the notion from some of the fans that we were ever out to get TSCC or Dollhouse, or any other show (OK, Bill might have it in for CW’s Privileged, but that’s another story) was always ludicrous. We thought it would be canceled, and it was, but we thought Dollhouse would be canceled and it wasn’t. And we’re not at all unhappy Dollhouse will be back. Confused perhaps, but not unhappy. We’d have been thrilled if TSCC pulled off the miracle too. But it didn’t.

Souce: tvbythenumbers.com

That's all folks. I had a feeling this would be the result. Especially after reading the news on Dollhouse earlier this week.

I knew only one show would survive FOX's budget cuts (and since Joss Whedon proved he could do it with less money he won).

Despite knowing all that I was still holding on to the very slim hope that FOX would change it's mind.

But instead they once again proved that they don't know what to do with a good show when they have it.

Figures just when the show gets really good, it gets the axe and my bad luck with shows I love continues *sigh*. It was great while it lasted. Thank goodness for fan fiction and dvds!.

I think Summer Glau should knock on Mr. Whedon's door and get herself a part in his show, and while we are at it maybe he could give Lena Heady one too.

'Sarah Connor Chronicles' rumor control

April 16, 2009 - The next few weeks look to be tense ones for fans of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. On the heels of EW.com's Michael Ausiello reporting the show is cancelled, those associated with the series say this is still not the case. FOX announces their 2009-2010 schedule on May 18th at the Upfronts, and it continues to look like we won't know the official announcement until that week.

Like so much else they days, the rebuttals to the cancellation stories are coming via Twitter. io9.com points out a recent Twitter update by Terminator writer Ashley Edward Miller, who says, "Time for Ausiello's semi-annual SCC termination report. False again. (Remember "sets were destroyed" report? Now you know context, people)." Miller is referring both to times in the past when Ausiello believed the show was not continuing (including mid-way through Season 2) and also reports unrelated to him saying the proof that the show was cancelled was that the sets have been torn down.

Fans of the show know this was a dubious statement, given the only permanent sets the show had recently were for Catherine Weaver's office, and based on the events of the Season 2 finale, those probably wouldn't be needed again.

Terminator showrunner Josh Friedman meanwhile Twittered, "Waiting for Michael Ausiello to tell me what I'm supposed to do now with my career."

As for where Season 3 could go, a new interview with Brian Austin Green sheds some light on that. [Spoiler Warning for those who haven't seen the last two episodes of Terminator - though if so, what are you doing reading this article? Some fan you are!]

Green tells Comic Book Resources, "The third season is going to be incredible, if it happens. There were no intentions of this being a series finale. It was absolutely a season finale. There's a plan where this can go and it's so good."

Season 2's stunning conclusion had John Connor travel to the future, where he encountered Green's character, Derek Reese, who had been killed in the present - along with John's father, Kyle Reese himself. Green elaborates, "You have this episode where John Connor travels to a future where John Connor never existed. I don't know if people completely get it because we work on a string theory, which we've dealt with during the season.

We dealt with that with Jessie, in the future that she came from there was Charles Fisher, who tortured everyone. In the future I came from, he never existed. I don't remember him. We were still together within these parallel futures but they were still different and they still had their own paths. This is the same concept. For John Connor to travel to a future where he never existed, where Kyle Reese never left, where Derek and Kyle are still fighting side by side, where Allison (the human Cameron was based on) is still very much present, what becomes of John? What better situation for somebody to grow up in and become the future leader than that? Than to be fighting in what he's been trying to prevent? Not just being the top dog, being listened to for everything, but having to actually listen and follow." Green also explains that he's in second position on the pilot he's filmed, The CW's Body Politic, meaning if that series is picked up while Terminator is also renewed, he stays with Terminator and the other series recasts his role. Green reveals Josh Friedman came to him and explained how Derek would be killed in episode 21 of Season 2, and also how he'd be back in episode 22, thanks to John's time travel adventure – the fact that he was also filming a pilot helped add to the illusion that he was definitely off the show, but that was never the case.

The actor had a lot of praise for the shocking manner in which Derek was killed, telling CBR, "I love the way he went out. I love that Josh made the choice that he did. He wanted him to go out like a warrior, like a fighter. There wasn't this big, long, drawn-out thing where everyone's crying saying, 'Derek no, stay with us, don't go.' I'm not pounding on my chest, bleeding and coughing. That's the reality of war. When people die in war it's not glamorous, it's not very heartfelt. For the most part it's immediate, it's loss and you move on. I love the fact that Sarah, being a warrior, did just that. She took his wallet, took his gun and moved on because it's what you have to do. I think it was really brave and really exciting."

Alright my fellow Sarah Connor fans, let's try to keep hope alive here and cross our fingers... because we all need that third season, right? This show is too awesome to die.

Source: IGN.com

Oh the confusion!. 0_o

'Sarah Connor Chronicles' won't be back

Resist the urge to nuke the messenger, but multiple sources are telling me that Fox will not be renewing Terminator: The Summer Glau Sarah Connor Chronicles for a third season.

"It's done," maintains a source close to the show. "Everyone has pretty much known for a couple of weeks." Adds a network insider: "Consider it canceled."

The one bright spot? Despite horrific ratings, Fox isn't ready to declare SCC dead and buried -- at least not officially. "No decision has been made yet," insists a network rep. "We will be announcing our fall schedule on May 18."

Rough translation: It won't be back.

Oh, I just thought of one other bright spot: At least the show went out on top creatively. Last Friday's finale was an action-packed, closure-filled triumph. The only thing left unresolved is what Summer Glau will do for an encore. I'm thinking 24 should hire her as next season's Big Bad.

Source: EW.com

I don't know about the rest of you, but I choose to live in a world of denial until FOX releases the official word at the end of May.

Fox renews 'Dollhouse' axes 'Sarah Connor Chronicles'

The Fox network is just a step away from shaking up its Friday lineup for the 2009-10 season, canning one show and considering a move to a new night for a second.

Let's hit the good news first. Airlock Alpha has learned that Fox is looking to give its struggling "Dollhouse" a second season, to see if it can grow some legs on a new night. Fox had originally intended "Dollhouse" to air Mondays with "24," but Fox instead decided to move "House" to that spot to replace "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," and to create sort of a genre theme night on Fridays.

The audience for "Dollhouse" are not exactly where Fox had hoped they would be, however, critical reaction to later episodes following its February premiere has grown more positive toward the series as it has had the chance to flesh itself out. Showrunner Joss Whedon had said ahead of its premiere that he had gone back to retool certain aspects of the show, including using a new premiere episode than what was originally planned, eventually canning what would have been the premiere.

The move seems to be an easy one for Fox. While the audience hasn't been as large as expected, it has instead remained stable. It's not a number that Fox uses, but "Dollhouse" carries a BlipNetwork Stability Index Rating of 92.0, better than every other network genre show currently on television outside of "Reaper" on The CW, which has a 94.7. A Stability Index Rating is the comparison of the show's highest overnight rating and its average overnight rating to see how much of its overall audience a show has retained.

Other factors in favor of the show continuing is that it's not as expensive as other Fox shows. Much of its upfront costs, including the construction of the elaborate set that is the dollhouse itself, were covered by funds that normally would've paid for a pilot (no pilot was made for "Dollhouse"). Also, while Whedon's Mutant Enemy Productions and star Eliza Dushku's Boston Diva Productions are tied to the series, 20th Century Fox Television is still the primary production company involved, which means its licensing fee is not as steep as it would be if the show was produced by another studio.

That, along with ratings, is one of the aspects killing "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." That show is set to end its second season April 10 after a 22-episode run, but its sophomore season has been nothing but a complete struggle.

After a so-so debut on Mondays and never finding its grip after that with audiences, Fox teetered on canceling the show until surprisingly deciding to give it a full-season pickup and moving it to Fridays as a lead-in to "Dollhouse." Rumors were that Warner Bros. Television, which produces the show, slashed its licensing fee to prompt a pickup as a way to help it promote its upcoming "Terminator: Salvation," which premieres May 21.

Once "Salvation" premieres, it seems Warner Bros. will have little use to keep "Sarah Connor" on the air, and likely will not continue to provide a licensing fee discount for a third season. That almost assuredly will allow Fox to make the move it normally would've done before New Year's, and that's cancel the show.

Last year, "Sarah Connor" had the worst Stability Index Rating of all network genre shows, mostly from its inflated series premiere following the National Football League playoffs. This year, it's Stability Index Rating is stronger, but out of 14 network genre show tracked by Airlock Alpha this season, "Sarah Connor" is ranked 13th. Only "Life On Mars" had a worse Stability Index Rating, mostly from its freefall following its move from Thursdays against "Eleventh Hour" to Wednesdays following "Lost."

Of course, none of this has been confirmed by Fox, so it should be treated as any rumor would, meaning information can change, or could even be wrong.

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. "Dollhouse" airs Fridays at 9 p.m. ET on Fox.

Source: airlockalpha.com


I had a feeling this would happen, of course as the article says nothing is set in stone yet as these rumors have been circling around for a while. We'll have to wait for the official word from FOX at the end of May.

Personally, I'm really hoping they give Sarah Connor Chronicles another shot as well, because it is a really great show.

And it still has a lot of unrealized potential, but like Dollhouse it needs to be in a better time slot, and a better night in terms of it's schedule.

So I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the survival of both. And let's face it. It's not like FOX has something better to replace it with.

April Fools with TSCC and Dollhouse

It seems that when it comes to April Fools not even t.v. stars can escape the pranks.

The lovely people at FOX tried to prank the main cast of Sarah Connor Chronicles.

I thought it started out well, but kind of fizzled out in the end, and just became incredibly lame. I agree with Thomas who's idea was this?.



MAJOR DOLLHOUSE SPOILER ALERT



Hmmm....FOX has a weird definition of the word "prank". Personally I think this works better:



Even Bones got it right:



Note to the folks at FOX, sometimes classic works best ;D.

TTSCC & Dollhouse when promos go bad

Ok, FOX CANNOT be serious this whole trailer is the epitome of cheese.

I certainly hope it improves, or the promos alone are the thing that will lead to the demise of these 2 great shows.

'Sarah Connor Chronicles' back to serial format

The experiment to create more standalone adventures within the universe of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" is over.

The push by Fox to move away from serialized episodes following the first season is no longer existent as producers try to find that magic captured in the first season of the series.

"I think that initially, when we started the second season, kind of one of the requests of sort of the powers that be was that we did more singular episodes," star Thomas Dekker told SciFi Wire. "That's why they invented the wall with all the names on it so that we would be able to do a mission an episode. But that involved a lot of Terminators coming back, and to me, that's always irritated our writers. And now they have permission to be more serialized again, and more science-fiction, so that's happening less."

Many fans had complained that it was too easy for travel back and forth in time, and that in essence, it was creating a lot of story holes and challenging what might have otherwise been a strong season so far for the series.

"Sarah Connor" really needs some sort of boost in the ratings, as it has struggled in its sophomore season. Some have blamed its timeslot, which has it competing with Monday Night Football on cable, while others point out that many second-year shows with shortened production schedules because of last year's Writers Guild of America strike have suffered terribly, including "Pushing Daisies," which has already been denied a full season season by ABC.

"Sarah Connor" nearly faced its own trip to termination with Fox on the verge of canceling the series, before deciding to pair it up with the new Joss Whedon series "Dollhouse" next month.

One reprieve may be all this series gets as Fox is looking for much better numbers, at least closer to what it received in the first season, if it's going to live to see a third year.

It had been rumored at Comic-Con in San Diego that one of the main characters were going to die by executive producer Josh Friedman. When Cromartie, played by Garrett Dillahunt, was finally killed (and later resurrected), many fans believed that was the death Friedman had talked about. Dekker, however, says it's not it.

His character did die," Dekker said of Cromartie. "But then when he's back, maybe he's not the one who dies. I can't really say who. It's so cryptic. Somebody still has to die. Yes, there's still a major death, I think."

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" returns to Fox Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. ET.

Source: SyfyPortal.com

Hmmm....isn't this an interesting development so Sarah Connor Chronicles is going to be more serialized while Joss Whedon's Dollhouse will have more standalone storylines.

Someone at Fox needs to go back and chek Joss's resume again, 'cause I think they have that backwards. Joss is the master of serialized t.v. why make him do individual stories?.

Hopefully that's something that will be remedied once Dollhouse garners a decent fan-base.

As for that last paragraph of the article, all I have to say is I knew it!.

I knew Chromarti was not the big death Josh Friedman keeps teasing us with.

My money is still on Agent Ellison...or possibly Derek Reece.

TSCC 2009 promo

Well, since the fall finale of Sarah Connor Chronicles aired this passed Monday, we've now got a long wait unit February 13th of next year.

In the mean time enjoy this brand new awesome trailer courtesy of the sarahconnorsociety



Looks like we're in for a whole lot of surprises. I love this show! :).

Btw. can someone please tell me who the actor uttering the famous phrase of "come with me if you wanna live" is?.

He looks so familiar but I just can't place him.

TTSCC 2x13 "Earthlings Welcome Here" promo

Ooh, looks good!. I've been waiting for a Riley vs Cameron smack-down :D. It's also the last episode of this year.

Come February 13th 2009 the show will be moving to it's new night at 8pm on FOX (where as I've mentioned it will be a lead in to Joss Whedon's Dollhouse).

And yes the 13th happens to be a Friday, let's hope that for once it won't be a bad omen.

TTSCC 2x12 Alpine Fields clips

Here's an early sneek peak at tomorrow's episode. Looks like there's gonna be plenty of action.

Lena Headey "The Broken" trailer

If you just can't get enough of Lena Headey on Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronices or just in general then check out this international trailer (I guess the U.S. one is not out as of yet) for her new psychological thriller "The Broken".

She plays a woman whose life descends into nightmare after she sees an apparent double of herself driving by in her own car.



Nice to see Lena doing a horror movie she's done a lot of other genres, but I think this is a first for her (not counting The Cave because I don't know what the hell that was) .

I don't know about the rest of you but after seeing that trailer I'm sold! (what can I say, I love psychological flicks).

TSCC The Women of Terminator Featurette

Awesome. That is all.

TV Addict has faith in TSCC and Dollhouse's Friday time slot

Despite naysayers who fear FOX has dumped Joss Whedon's latest series into a show-killing Friday night timeslot, this TV Addict believes the move may be the best thing to have happened to DOLLHOUSE since star Eliza Dushku’s parents procreated.

Crazy? Perhaps. But hear me out.

Now granted, Fridays on FOX don’t historically have the best track-record (see: FIREFLY, DARK ANGEL, VANISHED… ). But a lot has changed since the ill-fated launch of FIREFLY, Whedon’s space saga, in the fall of 2002, including what network execs expect of a new show. Thanks to television’s increasingly-fragmented audience, the rise of numerous cable channels, increased awareness of non-conventional viewers (who watch via DVR or even outlets such as Hulu.com), networks have been forced to accept that numbers which may have put a show on death row only a few short years ago are now greeted with lively cheers.

Just ask GOSSIP GIRL, whose deafening buzz hasn’t exactly translated into big numbers. Or Josh Friedman, creator of TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES, whose show has avoided being axed despite the fact that the heroine shoots more bullets in an average episode than the series has viewers.

It also helps that, contrary to popular opinion, FOX executives aren’t stupid, as evidenced when scheduling guru Preston Beckman told TVWeek’s Josef Adalian that while DOLLHOUSE and TERMINATOR don’t have an easy road ahead of them, “We can afford to let these shows run their course. We can give them 12 or 13 weeks to find an audience.”

Perhaps finally having learned from history that shows which began with small numbers can turn into hits both modest (ONE TREE HILL) or mega (CHEERS, SEINFELD, DALLAS), the networks seem to be showing a bit more patience than in seasons past, as evidenced by the full-season pickups of KATH & KIM or LIFE. This is, obviously, in part a response to an undeniable economic reality: It’s more cost-effective to try and turn and morph an existing show into a hit than to start from scratch with a new program.

It’s also worth noting that while Friday’s are now the equivalent of a dead zone, it wasn't all that long ago that CBS ruled the airwaves by programming DALLAS and FALCON CREST while FOX gave nerds everywhere a viable excuse to stay home on Friday nights with the X-FILES.

Which is why, this TV Addict is about to make a very bold and some might say fool-hearted prediction: Not only will TERMINATOR and DOLLHOUSE thrive on Friday nights, but each will be around when the 2009 fall season is rolled out.

But, um, just in case… it wouldn't hurt to go out and buy weebles to send FOX executives should a Save Our Show campaign prove necessary.

Source-TV Addict

I really hope that prediction comes true.

TSCC episode 2x09 "Complications" promo

TTSCC creator Josh Friedman happy to be paired with Whedon

The following story contains spoiler information about last night's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Before Season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles premiered, executive producer Josh Friedman teased a big death — saying when it hit your screen, you'd certainly know it.

This reporter's money was on Agent Ellison, or perhaps Dean Winters' EMT. For some reason, never did it enter my mind that Team Connor would actually get the upper hand on Cromartie and thus terminate the terminator who has taunted them for so long.

"Cromartie kind of forced their hand," series scribe Dan Thomsen explains. "He was a good terminator and got to his prey" — and thus had to be dealt with. So, is Shirley Manson's Weaver now the only big baddie? Or might another tin can be on its way to track the Connors? "How and when Skynet gets its information for sending assets into our time is very interesting to me," says Thomsen. With Cromartie gone, "We'll see what the next move is."

Thomsen, along with Friedman and (for the blink of an eye) Cromartie's portrayer, Garret Dillahunt, conversed with press and fans in a Fox-sponsored Mooby chat room on Monday night, after the big death had been delivered to East Coast viewers. While there was a certain irony in a futuristic show brokering an interaction via a venue that (as one person put it) "looked like a circa-1995 AOL chat room," the patient onlooker was able to glean a few scooplets from the show runner and his scribe.

On Terminator's Midseason Move to Fridays, Leading into Dollhouse
"I'm happy to be with Joss Whedon," said Friedman, "and now we'll see how fervent our fans are. Which is to say: Will you stay home?"

On Sarah Connor Possibly Visiting the Dollhouse
"The crossover I'd like... is for Joss to come over and write my show for a week, so I can go to Hawaii," Friedman joked.

On Friedman's Plan to Fix Heroes — Since Everybody Has One, After All
"How would I improve Heroes? Bring back Bryan Fuller [who's currently exec-producing Pushing Daisies]."

On Sage Sarah Connor Not Expounding As Much
"I love the monologues, but we curtailed them mainly because they were affecting the way we edited the opening and closing of the episodes," explained Friedman. "Funny, when we did the voiceovers, everyone complained!"

On Newcomer Jesse
"Stephanie [Jacobson] will be around for a while," said Friedman. "She's got some work to do."

On John's Budding Romance with a High-School Girl
"I think John's an idiot to be involved with Riley (played by Leven Rambin)," Friedman admitted, "but he's got his reasons."

On the Belief that a Robot (Cameron) Shouldn't Hook Up with a Human (John)
"But it's Summer Glau!" Thomsen argued.

The one question that both men repeatedly and effectively dodged throughout the fast-moving exchange: "What happened in the basement?" It's a reference to a lingering plot thread from Season 1. Theories range from Cameron used the cellar to interrogate prisoners (while listening to Chopin!) to a larger story in which Brian Austin Green's Derek might ultimately betray the Connors. All Friedman and Thomsen would say is this: "We talk a lot about the basement in the writers room."

Source-tvguide.com

Ah, the million dollar question LOL, well you've got one viewer who definitely will (stay home that is). And Joss Whedon running TSCC?. That would be interesting!.

TTSCC nominated for a People's Choice Award!

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TTSCC 2x08 Scenemaker clip

If you're like me and simply can't wait for tonight's episode check out this spoiler-y behind the scenes clip.



Looks like John continues to get a bigger back bone, but unfortunately that very thing continues to get him into trouble.

At least the fans can't complain about him being a whiny teenager anymore. Now he's just the dumb teenager *lol*.