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#1253848 - 03/08/09 11:09 AM Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX?
slave4britney Offline
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Eliza Dushku has a Chris Brown/Rihanna relationship with FOX. They keep treating her so bad and she keeps coming back for more abuse. Let's take a look...

TRU CALLING (2003) - UPN was set to give Eliza Dushku her own Buffy/Faith spinoff but she got greedy and went over to FOX because they were the bigger network. However, FOX put the show on TV's toughest timeslot: Thursdays @ 8. FOX than cancelled the Season 2 after 6 episodes, and didn't premiere it till almost a year after the first finale.

NURSES (2006) - FOX put Eliza as the lead in the Grey's Anatomy ripoff and PROMISED her it was going to be picked up. However, when May upfronts came around the show was nowhere in sight. Another slap in the face.

Dollhouse (2009) - After giving the poor girl a development deal and promising they will give her a show (it actually took 2 years for them to make good with their promise) in a good timeslot (Mondays @ 8) they cast the show to Fridays @ 9. Ridiculous.

Eliza PLEASE don't go back to FOX. I would have loved her as the female lead of BONES opposite David Boreanaz. Would have been perfect.

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#1253878 - 03/08/09 11:24 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: slave4britney]
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I'm a huge fan of Eliza and so I will watch anything she is in. I really enjoyed Tru Calling, and was very upset when they cancelled it. I agree that FOX never gives her a break. If I were her, I would drop FOX in a second and begin auditioning for the other networks.

She is a talented actress and I wish she could have taken this project to another network. I'm hoping she goes to the CW. Fans would flock to watch her. Maybe Dawn could re-open the idea of a Buffy/Faith spin off lol
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#1253938 - 03/08/09 11:38 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: CW_Chick]
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I think she has a talent holding contract with FOX. So that's why she has been in a few FOX projects. I don't know how long it is, but if there's more to go, she'll probably get casted again after Dollhouse is over.

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#1253948 - 03/08/09 11:38 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: CW_Chick]
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I have a feeling that CW is going to be cancelled in a year or two. It's making absolutely NO MONEY. Plus their budgets are super low. All of Echo's adventures would be IN THE Dollhouse. Reminds me of the Buffy episodes where characters are trapped in Buffy's House or the Magic Shop. LOL

None of the networks know how to launch shows anymore, every single new flops! I like how Eliza sticks with the Sci-Fi genre, but for her to have a successful TV career (so she can branch off into a big movie star a la Katie Heigl) she may have to do a crime drama ala CSI or something. I don't know. I want her to be a household name.
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#1253958 - 03/08/09 11:46 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: slave4britney]
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I don't know, but I do not see Katherine Heigl as a household name. That woman thinks she is the next Meryl Streep after she filmed 27 Dresses, which to be honest, I didn't like at all. Her character on Grey's annoys me to death too lol

I also like the fact that Eliza is sticking to sci-fi, but I think she could do alot more with her talents. I'm sure she will be cast in another FOX project, but with the recent history of her shows on that network, I doubt they will treat it right.
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#1253998 - 03/08/09 12:38 PM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: TValicious]
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Originally Posted By: TValicious
I think she has a talent holding contract with FOX. So that's why she has been in a few FOX projects. I don't know how long it is, but if there's more to go, she'll probably get casted again after Dollhouse is over.


Yup, I thought it was for a few years too. The same happened with Justin Hartley and the CW, they have him in a talent deal yet they can't cast him in anything except for the Green Arrow on Smallville.

I can't wait for Eliza to get out of her deal with Fox, because seriously they are bringing the poor girl down.
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#1254248 - 03/08/09 03:18 PM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: Freyja]
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It doesn't help she keeps starring in direct-to-DVD horror movies like the lame ALPHABET KILLER and OPEN GRAVES. I wish I was that girl's manager. She's making AT LEAST $75,000/episode on Dollhouse. 1 episode is more than enough for a YEAR RENT for a VERY NICE condo in LA. Not sure why she keeps doing all these lame movies. Does she even read the script?
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#1255638 - 03/09/09 08:11 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: slave4britney]
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I loved her in Bring it On she could have had a pretty good teen movie star after that. But she followed it up with The New Guy and Wrong Turn(I kind of liked this one).

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#1255758 - 03/09/09 08:24 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: abcguy]
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Maybe she'll have better luck now that she's producing, which she is on Dollhouse and she's also planning a project about gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, to star her brother and producing partner Nate.
http://www.whedon.info/Eliza-Dushku-Dollhouse-Tv-Series,30472.html

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#1256328 - 03/09/09 11:01 AM Re: Why does Eliza Dushku keep going back to FOX? [Re: Vogs]
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Thanks for posting that Vogs, I never knew about that project hug
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