Sarah Connor Chronicles

Question: With Sarah Connor Chronicles canceled, please tell me there is a possibility of Summer Glau making an appearance on Dollhouse! –Jenn
Ausiello: The noise you’re about to hear is the sound of the Whedonverse exploding. Joss confirms to me exclusively that, well, he’s one step ahead of you. “If anybody thinks [bringing Summer onto Dollhouse] hasn’t occurred to me already then they have not met me,” he says. “I mentioned it to her before [SCC] was canceled. I was like, ‘You know, we should get you in the ‘house.’ But first we have to come up with something that works.” And casting her as a doll would not work, insists Whedon. “Summer would be perfect to play an active, but she’s done that [type of role] a lot,” he says. “I’d rather see her play someone who talks too much. The most fun I have is when I get somebody who’s good and comfortable at doing something, and then I make them do something else. Summer said to me, ‘I would like to play a normal girl before I die of extreme old age.’” Got any ideas? Head to the comments section!

Any hope fans had that Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles would somehow come back for a third season are officially dead. The FOX upfront presentation where the network revealed its 2009-2010 schedule didn’t include Terminator, and now there’s no chance of it coming back.

The show’s ratings weren’t much worse than those of the other Friday night sci-fi series, Dollhouse, which got picked up, but still, there’s apparently only room for one poorly-rated sci–fi series with a diehard fan base.

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The Word From on High: So what’s the latest word from Fox on the show’s future? Josh Friedman, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ show runner and executive producer, tell us that the latest news from the network is this: “They have given me no signs in either direction. I actually haven’t spoken with Fox in weeks. They said they’re going to make all their decisions when they get the pilots in, and I don’t think they have any of their pilots in yet. Things are just starting to come in from the other shows.”

Never Give Up, Never Give In: Definitely hang in there, fans, because Josh believes there is every hope that the show will get picked up. As he tells us about Fox’s executives and programming bosses (aka the powers that be), “They’re all people, too, and they hear what goes on [with stuff like Save One Show]. I don’t think it’s a futile effort at all for people to continue to fight for the show.”

The Drop-Dead Date: When will we know for sure? Says Josh, “My experience with them in the past is they make their decision on the day that they have to make their decision and not a day before that.” And that day? That’s May 18, the day of the Fox upfront, so mark your calendars, Terminator fans! We’ll be in New York that day to get the word live, so check back early and often for the latest updates on Terminator’s fate!

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On tonight’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles season finale, it’s what you may call judgment day, as the Connors will finally come face to face with the CEO of ZeiraCorp as well as the shape-shifting terminator, (Shirley Manson) Catherine Weaver. The promo promised the confrontation would “shake John (Thomas Dekker) to the core and change his reality forever.”

Elsewhere on the episode called “Born to Run,” Ellis (Richard T. Jones) will guide Weaver to the family and a priest, Father Armando Bonilla (guest star Carlos Sanz), will be involved in the Connors side. Unconfirmed spoilers have also hinted that a major character, a male, will be killed off in the finale, while a woman in John’s life will leave him and another betray him.

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Question: There’s a rumor that Warner Bros. tore down all the Sarah Connor Chronicles sets, which typically means a cancellation announcement is coming. What are you hearing? –Val
Ausiello: The SCC sets have not been struck, a Warner Bros. insider maintains. They’ve simply been “shuffled around.” (Hopefully not from the soundstage to the landfill).