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As a fan of Joss Whedon's shows I've grown to become used to disapointment. Well as we headed into this weekend it became known that talks to determine if the much maligned show was going to be cancelled or not, most of us cynics figured it to be a lost cause and went back to our work.

Something changed.

The other night a story hit reddit about how dollhouse's chances apparently were trending upwards. That Joss would have to agree to a slashed budget but that things looked much brighter than the near-certain cancellation we were expecting. So here I sit monitoring twitter and finding what might be confirmation about the show being renewed. With the official announcement one way or another happening on Monday the 'net will be all a buzz one way or another come monday.

But the news aside what does this mean? At least for the future of media production in this and other nations? Dollhouse's ratings numbers have been pretty low even for a show relegated to the Friday night slot, yet it's DVR and Online Stream numbers had been strong, but few expected this to really make up the difference needed for renewal or even that Fox's executives would be looking too closely at said numbers.

As a fan who was brought into this frenzy after Firefly, the idea of the renewal feels big. Even if the tag cloud seems to not understand that a 2nd hand indication does not mean that something is confirmed.

This should be an interesting few weeks.