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A Thursday conference call with Joss Whedon yielded much news about the coming season of Fox's sci-fi adventure dramedy "Dollhouse." Among the revelations:

* Ray Wise runs a Dollhouse. Wise (“Twin Peaks,” “Reaper”) and Summer Glau (“Firefly,” “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) will play another city's Adelle and Topher, respectively. (This reminds me that fans got to visit Wolfram and Hart’s Rome office in the fifth season of “Angel.”) Wise first appears in 2.6 and could recur. Glau's character we know will play Bennett, who has a history with Echo.

* Felicia Day was originally supposed to kick off season two in 2019 before we flashed back to 2009, but the future sequence was excised at some point in August or thereabout. (Which would explain why the first shot of season two isn’t terribly interesting on a visual level.) "It had originally been my intention to start in that era, and then come back, but I just had too much information in my first episode," Whedon said. "What we're talking about doing is perhaps revisiting that timeline toward the end of the 13 in a similar fashion.”

* Echo this season is “building herself,” according to Whedon, by accessing not-really-deleted personalities she’s been programmed with in the past. “Then a lot of this season is going to be her attempt to put together some kind of team, even though she has trouble articulating it at first.”

* Miracle Laurie, who played Mellie/November, will be back “early on” (though not in 2.1). (I think November’s body’s true owner was revealed to be someone named Mad Costly – because Paul paid so much for her freedom.)

* We’ll get to see “The Attic,” a “creepy” storage facility where parts the Dollhouse doesn’t need anymore are stored.

* Amy Acker, busy with ABC’s “Happy Town,” will appear in the “Dollhouse” opener and two more episodes this season.

* Sierra and Victor will bone like bunnies.

Find all of scifiwire’s report on the conference call here.

“Dollhouse’s” second season premiere airs Sept. 25 on Fox. You can find my review of it here.

Download “Epitaph One,” “Dollhouse’s” best, unaired episode for $1.99 here.

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