Link Tank: TV Blog Coalition Roundup for April 18-20

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Holy Joss Whedon! This week, I had everyone buzzing with my advance review of the "brilliant" and "gripping" pilot script for Joss Whedon's new FOX drama Dollhouse.

I also had an advance review of the second season finale of Torchwood on BBC America, reviewed the US premiere of Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, and shared gleeful news about Amy Acker joining the cast of the aforementioned Dollhouse.

What else? I celebrated Rob Thomas' decision to leave the 90210 spin-off pilot and focus on his other (superior) projects at ABC, pondered the mini-Arrested Development reunion going on with Mitch Hurwitz's new animated comedy pilot, and wondered if I was well and truly over The Office.

Elsewhere in the sophisticated TV-obsessed section of the blogosphere, members of the TV Blog Coalition were discussing the following items...

Buzz combed through photos to speculate about upcoming storylines on Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty, and more. (BuzzSugar)
This week, Sandie posted the first part from our Alex O'Loughlin interview during our Moonlight set visit. (Daemon's TV)
Reality TV certainly was in rare form this week, and even the last hurrah of Rob & Big¡Viva Hollywood!. (Mikey Likes TV)
Marcia faced a post-strike TV slump and wondered if there is such a thing as "viewer's block." (Pop Vultures)
Forever a fairy tale kind of girl, Rae was only too happy to take an early look at ABC Family's modern fairy tale, Princess, and share what Kip Pardue and Nora Zehetner to say about filming the movie. (RTVW)
Take Scooter McGavin's Television Trivia Quiz for a chance to win, well, there are no actual prizes. (Scooter McGavin's 9th Green)
You're allowed to fall in love with Burn Notice now that USA Network is re-running an encore of the First Season in anticipation of Season 2, but Jeffrey Donovan/Michael Weston will forever be Vance's, so back off! (Tapeworthy)
Maggie willingly relived the trauma of high school by exposing herself to MTV's new reality show The Paper, which is set in a real-life high school. (TiFaux)
Tube Talk got to take part in an interview with Bones star David Boreanaz that turned tense when another reporter called Bones a bubble show. (Tube Talk)
Show ABC that you care about quality scripted television and that not all of their shows have to include dancing, a bachelor or a nanny! Pledge your support for Eli Stone. [the TV Addict]
In honor of Tax Day, Raoul paid tribute to TV's greatest accountants. (TV Filter)

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Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

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What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season ...

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In Defense of Downton Abbey (Or, Don't Believe Everything You Read)

The proof of the pudding, as they say, is in the eating. Which means, if I can get on my soapbox for a minute, that in order to judge something, one ought to experience it first hand. One can't know how the pudding has turned out until one actually tastes it. I was asked last week--while I was on vacation with my wife--for an interview by a journalist from The Daily Mail, who got in touch to talk to me about PBS' upcoming launch of ITV's period drama Downton Abbey , which stars Hugh Bonneville, Dame Maggie Smith, Dan Stevens, Elizabeth McGovern, and a host of others. (It launches on Sunday evening as part of PBS' Masterpiece Classic ; my advance review of the first season can be read here , while my interview with Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and stars Dan Stevens and Hugh Bonneville can be read here .) Normally, I would have refused, just based on the fact that I was traveling and wasn't working, but I love Downton Abbey and am so enchanted with the proj...

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