Cinefantastique Online

In an article about the major networks recent practise of putting shows on air without a pilot episode, Hollywood Reporter notes that several shows have gone through awkward growing pains during the recent season, making changes that normally would have been made after a pilot was shot but before the show went to series. Some shows have bit the dust; others have been revamped, including the latest effort from Joss Whedon:

ABC’s “In the Motherhood” and “The Goode Family” and Fox’s “Dollhouse” — are on tap for midseason. Two of them — the Joss Whedon/Eliza Dushku thriller “Dollhouse” and the globe-trotting adventure “Philanthropist” — have undergone extensive revamps, with “Dollhouse” getting a time slot downgrade to low-rated Friday night.

Over at CBS, three shows that began with pilots are being renewed for mid-season, while only one of six non-pilot series will come back, the horror-themed HARPER’S ISLAND, a take-off on TEN LITTLE INDIANS, set on an island where an unsolved series of murders took place several years ago.