Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free

Last month we told you how The CW had given a green light for a pilot for a new show called The Graysons, which would be the story of Dick Grayson and his life before he became Robin, The Boy Wonder, Batman’s sidekick. Now it looks like the network and Warner Brothers have scrapped those plans.

Variety is using the word “forced” when it describes why the project came to a stop. Seems that The CW and Warner Brothers never had clearance to go ahead with the show in the first place, and Batman Begins/Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan wasn’t too thrilled with having a Batman-based Television show on the air while he’s also doing the movies (though he had nothing to do with the show being pulled).

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Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free

Last night, we received a press release with a bunch of mid-season start dates, including Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, which is scheduled to begin on Friday, February 13, 2009.

I’m sorry, but WTF? Is Fox trying to once again screw over Joss and his compatriots (such as has been done with his previous TV opus Firefly) by giving it the Friday night death slot?

Either this show is a piece of crap (and given its show-runner, I tend to doubt it) or Fox has no faith in it and is already writing the planned excuses for its inevitable failure.

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