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Loki45 -> RE: dollhouse dominatrix (6/15/2009 10:06:02 PM)
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ORIGINAL: EchoMirage
strange numbering?
Yeah. It was in an article I read. This explains it much better than I could:
"On April 9, 2009, actress Felicia Day posted on Twitter that she had received word the 13th episode of the first season of Dollhouse, in which she guest-stars, would not air. Whedon rebutted speculation that Fox was as yet set to cancel the show however, and producer Tim Minear explained that the "missing" 13th episode (which is entitled "Epitaph One") would be on the DVD release of the season. The reason Minear gave for the episode's being dropped from the broadcast run was that the Fox network was counting the original first episode ("Echo"), which went unaired, as part of the original 13-episode order; in contrast, the Fox production company was required by contract to have a minimum of 13 completed episodes for international and DVD releases. [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_%28TV_series%29#cite_note-The_Live_Feed-32][/link]According to both Minear and Whedon, the producers felt that the original first episode, having been subsequently scrapped entirely and had its footage reused for other episodes throughout the season, should not be counted as a completed episode as part of their own 13-episode orders for international and DVD distribution but rather as a DVD extra, and thus Whedon produced a new 13th episode on a lower budget to fulfill the contractual requirements for the international broadcasts. The episode will be screened at Comic-Con."
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