Whedon signs up Dushku for new Fox show

Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has signed up actress Eliza Dushku to star in a new TV drama series called Dollhouse.

The show will be spread over seven episodes to be aired next year. It will centre around a group of people who are "imprinted with personality packages" so that they can change their identities with different talents.

After the individuals are sent on tasks they have their memories erased and return to live in a guarded laboratory called the 'Dollhouse'.

Buffy alumnus Dushku said of her role: "She's fierce and she's hot, but she's also so complex, and she's going to be so tripped out because she's in this world, which I can identify with, where there are people who can click a button and succeed in making you be what they want you to be. It's this whole mind trip of objectification.

"It's going to have sex and heartbreak and violence and hilarity. That, to me, is a hot show."

She also spoke of her joy to work with Whedon again, adding: "I've always said from the Buffy days, 'I'll follow that guy anywhere'. I just had to find him and pluck him out of his supposed retirement from television."