7 (-) Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season 108,978 -.-% 108,978 $2,123,981 $2,123,981 1
17 (4) Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 57,959 -66.6% 231,538 $1,825,129 $7,353,620 2
23 (21) True Blood: The Complete First Season 49,570 12.3% 1,270,466 $1,847,970 $44,150,954 12

So two of the three this week are headlined by New Zealanders.

Dollhouse fell out of the top 30, and TB went UP a little, and is at #11 in revenue.

24 is just hanging on the revenue list.
49 24 – Season Seven 554,524 $17,995,618 5/19/2009

Seriously, the fact that it was #2 TV and #11 overall is amazing considering the fact that even folks in the Whedonverse are torn over the show.

Shouldn’t we all be more worried that “Fast and Furious” almost outsold everything else in the top ten combined?!

It’s over a week and no one is excited. But, seriously, what does GI Joe have to do with anything? It’s not competing with Dollhouse. The only person who seems to think it is is you. The reason some might question your humor is because it is completely misplaced.

Jennifer, you are not the first person to question the comedy value of my witchy blog-writing voice. And I haven’t even hit you with my dead-on personification of Rupert Murdoch that made a world-famous sci-fi writer pound out misspelled hateful insults at me on the internet.

But I must stand by my general point. G.I. Joe contains all the entertainment values Dollhouse actually contains, and it relieves you of the obligation to go on the internet and expend your life force making tangled excuses for its performance. Because G.I. Joe ROCKS!! Everyone loves it!

There’s KK and way more! Does anyone here object to Sienna Miller in a black leather catsuit firing a machine gun? And it introduces America to Byung-Hun Lee, one of the stars of The Good, The Bad and The Weird, a legitimately terrific Korean shoot ‘em up that’s just been released on DVD here. Richard, you seem like a smart guy, if you’re looking for something fun give that a shot.

You guys are all excited about $1.8 million in DVD sales over a month! G.I. Joe made $6 million MONDAY!! SOMEBODY agrees with me!

Enter the Terror Drome! Fight the nanobites! Climb into your accelerator suit and run at super-speed to your nearest theater to see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra TODAY!! That’s a direct order from General Hawk! This is Private Natalie Smythe-Prentiss, special assistant to Corporal Courtney “Cover Girl” Kreiger, special assistant to General Hawk, over and out!!

And it’s nice to see Ray Park and Gerald Okamura, two excellent martial artists, in the movie. Ray was great in Star Wars and Ballistic. Haven’t seen Gerald since “Big Trouble in Little China”, one of my favs.

Unfortunately I may have to wait for this movie to come out in DVD since I’m broke at the moment.

On topic, I don’t think Dollhouse will make any great number of DVD sales. The show just isn’t up to the likes of Firefly. It’s OK, but it’s no Firefly.

On the other hand, I’ve only see TV ads(they looked pretty slick) for DollHouse about 2 weeks before the release date. And hardly any web advertising. If sales can remain steady, the studio should see a good profit since they feel the need to spend a lot on advertising.

Call your friends at 20th Century Fox Studios and have them set you straight.

So I wouldn’t necessarily assume Fox is looking at these figures thinking “We better cancel this, there’s no way we’re going to make enough money from DVD sales to make it worth it.” A second season that’s consistently good should gain higher sales than the first season, and it may even mean the first season sells better in the long run anyway as the show picks up fans.

The real test will be the second season. I think Fox will, barring a massive collapse in ratings, show the entire 13, and will base the future of the show on that, not season one.

However, Austin Powers didn’t make that much money the first time around either, so you never know. Certainly it would not be a big risk to make another, but no one is chomping at the bit to do so. So maybe one day, but don’t hold anyone’s breath on it.

As for DH, much like ratings, next week will be interesting. Will the second week drop be large, normal, or tiny? What it won’t do is increase. That’s not happening, because no one is running around screaming at their friends and family to rush out and get DH like they did with Firefly. But coming in second in DVD sales when you are a miserably rated TV show ain’t bad. Certainly FOX will recoup their investment from Season Two, and that’s all they really care about. The show will be made cheaply, and it will sell several million dollars worth of discs, at least, so it’s got that going for it, which is nice.

Me, I’m not particularly into it. I’m a Whedon fanatic, and I enjoyed the show much more the second time around on DVD, but it’s simply not fantastic. It’s good, and it’s much better than most television, but it’s not something I’m jumping up and down over. So I take the numbers for what they are: decent. They aren’t poor, and they aren’t off the charts. They are decent. Next week, as it is for a show’s ratings, will be interesting. Because if FOX could budget something north of 10 in DVD sales, then that back nine probably will happen. Ten million in DVD sales will alone cover the cost of production, without even factoring in ad sales and net profits.

Again, Dollhouse isn’t exactly the show I had hoped it would be, and it’s not the one I would have picked to trumpet a new business model, but right now it still looks to me like making a profit off a Friday show is all broadcast nets can ask for right now, and DH will liklely do that.

@JBF

I have full confidence in Dollhouse eventually rising to the top also!

Considering the fact Dollhouse has already killed several shows,i.e., The Robot Show, Kings and retroactively wiped out Firefly as well as DH will totally nuke Caprica next Spring, jumping ahead of BSG should present no problem.

:;

~Lanie~

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra! Look for me in line to see it again!

In its own way, G.I. Joe is, like Dollhouse, a study in moral complexity. Sometimes when unscrupulous producers can’t really figure out what they’re trying to say, they load up the show with beautiful girls and start killing people. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.

And G.I. Joe works!!!

Natalie, why would I spend $10 to watch a two hour toy commercial? They should be paying me.

I know (think?) you are mostly joking, Natalie, but the sales charts on the-numbers.com are a week behind. This chart is for sales ending August 2nd. A week before GI Joe came out.

G.I. Joe is also about a bunch of people who work out of a secret base and get in lots of fights. But G.I. Joe is upfront about the fact that it makes no sense. So, unlike with Dollhouse, you can sit back and watch the gratuitous violence and look at the pretty girls (lots of them, even a supermodel!) without trying to figure out the important message about human identity that is supposedly being imparted.

There are other advantages as well. Once you are done watching G.I. Joe, you don’t have to download it six times on Hulu to deceive the world about how many people like G.I. Joe. You don’t have to bombard Paramount’s switchboard with messages telling them you’ll never watch a Paramount movie again unless they keep showing G.I. Joe. Because lots of people like G.I. Joe. So you can just watch it and then live your life. You don’t have to take on a second career trying to keep G.I. Joe from being canceled.

G.I. Joe is the number one movie in America!! No, it won’t get nominated for any awards. But then again, neither was Dollhouse. It just seems like a happier existence for everyone. Think about it, won’t you?

G.I. Joe, in theaters everywhere!!!

What is the studio’s take of a $30 DVD sale? Ten dollars? Fifteen? This doesn’t seem like an amount of many that’s going to give Dollhouse its own set of rules regarding the ratings required to survive. That was the fanbase’s hope, right?

1st week sales
Gossip Girls 92,196 units
One Tree Hill 97,239 units
Supernatural 104,979 units
Smallville 202,000 units

And what sales in units they were at when they fell off the list.

Gossip Girl 135,719
One Tree Hill 141,709
Supernatural 180,606
Smallville 336,760

When all of the CW offerings beat you, that can’t be that good (though in all fairness the CW does do better then many shows, probably due to the fact that parts of the country dont get the CW).

I am without a doubt a Browncoat, but I am not one of those that are living in the world of denial that thinks the show or a second movie is going to happen. Its not that Joss or the cast wouldn’t love to do it but the funding is never going to happen. I honestly wish it would, but realistically I know better. So instead I do my best to support the BDH current and future projects such as Dollhouse, Chuck, V, Goners and Castle.

It’s doubtful that 5,000 copies were sold. I’d estimate only 20% were bought online, no idea how many were actually purchased on the day at Comic Con.

I have bought SO many copies of the DVD that I’ve lost count! I know for sure it’s more than twenty, because I use my fingers and toes to count that high, but after that, who knows?! Let’s see: I have a DVD playing at all times in my bedroom, obviously! And one in my kitchen! I have another DVD playing in the bathroom, for two reasons: one, because Joss came up with Dollhouse in the bathroom, which makes it the most awesome of all the rooms! And two because when I’m in the bathtub watching the DVD it’s like I’m naked with Joss and Eliza and all of them! Then I have another DVD playing in my car! Some people might think it’s unsafe to keep my eyes on the TV there instead of the road, but those people are fools! After all, I’ve only been in 3 accidents since getting that DVD player in my car!

As someone who wants to make sure the ratings grow, grow, grow, I’ve also bought LOTS of copies for other people! I made sure my local library has a copy! I sent all 2 of my friends a copy! I think it’s ideal to reach kids when they’re young, so I’ve tried approaching small children at playgrounds, but you’d be surprised to learn that sometimes their parents don’t like that! I’ve randomly left copies around outside, knowing that someone would come along and pick it up and go home and watch it and become a Joss fan for life! There are SO many places where a conscientious Joss fan can go to spread the word of Joss, and I’ve just begun the fight!

Dollhouse returns in 45 days! Watch it or else!

Anybody have a clue how the 2nd season of Knots Landing did?