Yes, Dollhouse may have lowered the bar for “success” for Fox’s Sci-Fi shows, but even with that in mind, the audience for last night’s Virtuality airing suggests that the show will never make it to series.
https://gizmodo.com/did-dollhouse-redefine-success-for-sf-tv-5302907
Suggesting that Fox execs knew what they were doing by jettisoning the show in the Friday night death slot – or, perhaps, that they created a self-fulfilling prophecy by doing so – the former pilot for Ron Moore‘s new show turned “two hour movie event” drew only 1.8 million viewers and tied with ABC’s The Goode Family for the title of least-watched show on network television for the night (By comparison, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was cancelled with an audience twice that size).
It’ll be interesting to see the DVR numbers for Virtuality in a few weeks – we wouldn’t be surprised if it gets a Transformers-related bump, although nowhere near enough to have made the show make sense as an ongoing series.
Fox’s ‘Virtuality’ tanks [THR Live Feed]
