Dollhouse

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Dollhouse

Dollhouse is perhaps closest in spirit to Sherlock, in that it was eventually turned into a series despite a complete overhaul at the pilot stage. At the time, creator Joss Whedon announced that Fox had problems with the tone, pacing and complexity of the original pilot, and a more traditional zip-bang introductory episode was made in its place. Interestingly, one of the reasons given for the Sherlock pilot’s failure was that it wasn’t complex enough. That’s either a stinging indictment of the average American viewer’s intelligence, or an indication that the Sherlock pilot is just incredibly stupid. Maybe we’ll never know.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/may/28/sherlock-holmes-best-pilots-never