The end of the season is upon and so are renewals and cancellations. Upfronts are beginning in the next couple weeks, where official announcements on shows like Terminator: TSCC, Chuck, Dollhouse, and others will learn their fates. NBC has announced some definite returns, including Southland, Parks and Recreation, Heroes, and 30 Rock. ABC has also announced a few more obvious renewals, including Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, and Lost.
Tonight is the season finale of Dollhouse. Last week, Alan Tudyk finally arrived, and he was magical. Playing the reclusive Alpha, someone who has been referenced throughout the series as a perpetrator of violence against Dolls and those who work in the Dollhouse, he breaks into the Dollhouse with Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett). While Ballard is captured and taken for questioning, Alpha finds Echo (Eliza Dushku) and escapes with her, after she remembers him (through an imprint). This series keeps getting better as we get deeper into it, and hopefully fans will have a chance to see "Epitaph One", which Fox has not picked up to air.
Tudyk really got in shape for the role and put on muscle, something he blamed on a particular scene in the first episode of the show when he spoke to Entertainment Weekly:
"They cast a damn body double that looks like the Hulk! Joss showed me the first episode where you see Alpha from behind and I was like, 'Oh my God. I’ve got a lot of work to do.'"
Lost gave us the first half of a two part season finale (the other airing Wednesday, April 13). Juliet, Sawyer, and Kate left on a submarine with some of the Dharma initiative, leaving the island forever. Sayid, Jack, and two of the others (Ellie and Richard) to seek out a hydrogen bomb. Next week is rumored to be a "game changer", and while that's extremely cliche, Lost has given us some shocking moments in the past. With only one episode left before the last season of this series, who knows what we'll be given next week to simmer over for, oh, 8 months.
Dr. House is addicted to Vicodin (duh) and started hallucinating, so to detox, he found himself in the arms and living room of Dr. Lisa Cuddy. After years of mounting sexual tension, it seems as though the two have finally done the horizontal mambo. We just have to wait to see how this changes or complicates their relationship in hte setting of the hospital. Oh, House, turning ever so soapish in your old age. The season finale of House is Monday, May 11, on Fox.
ABC will debut The Goode Family (created by Mike Judge), a half hour animated show that is about a family who always tries to do good, ranging from living a hyper-green lifestyle to being extremely politically correct. Judge's King of the Hill will go off the air this year after 13 seasons, so it's nice to see he has found a home for a new project. The Goode Family will premiere on Wednesday, May 27, at 9 PM.
