Fox has picked up a 7 episode order of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, Variety reports. Joss Whedon is best known for his work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, where Eliza Dushku starred as Faith. She has since starred in roles in Tru Calling and Bring It On. The show will center around Dushku’s character, Echo, and follows a top secret world of people programmed with different personalities, abilities, and memories depending on their mission.
“It was a mistake!” Whedon said. “I sat down with her to talk about her options, and acted all sage, saying things backwards like Yoda and laying out what I thought she should do. But in the course of doing it, I accidentally made one up. I told it to her, and she said, ‘That’s exactly what I want to do.'”
“It’s exciting to know that my voice and who I am as Eliza is going to be in this show every single week,” Dushku, who will also serve as a producer, said. “I’m ready to take control of the person I want to be in this business.”
“He’s got an unbelievably loyal following, and that’s an earned brand,” Peter Liguori, Fox Entertainment chairman, said. “So much of it is based on Joss’ love of what he does and the genius of how he does it.”
In the event of a strike, the series would not be written until after the strike’s over.