Updated: Dollhouse producer Tim Minear explains about the 13 episodes

from SCI FI Wire by Wire Staff

Fox announced that it will air the season finale of Joss Whedon's Fox sci-fi series Dollhouse at 9 p.m. ET/PT on May 8, the 12th episode, titled "Omega." Which is raising questions among fans about the status of a supposed 13th episode, titled "Epitaph One."

Update: Tim Minear, consulting producer of Dollhouse, clarifies that the season finale of Fox's Dollhouse was always intended to be "Omega," the 12th of the original episodes ordered (not counting the original pilot, which was scrapped and cannibalized for parts). "Epitaph One," meanwhile, was a stand-alone episode that was never intended to be part of the original 13, but rather was created to fulfill the DVD deal for 13 episodes once the pilot was no longer useable.