Short Dr Horrible video segment on Extra

I did not miss Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, and neither should you. It’s absolutely magnificent, the whole cast is outstanding, and my fellow ACME alum Felicia Day is sensational. I want the soundtrack, and I want it NOW! Shane Nickerson said that it’s probably the best thing he’s ever seen that was made for the Internet, and better than most sitcoms. I totally agree, and wish Shane would stop saying these things before I get a chance to say them.

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There is an opportunity for fans to ask Felicia Day (Penny) questions during a chat session this morning (you will have to hurry if you want to ask a question, it starts in less than an hour):

July 4– WhedonAge.com, a fan community for the works of writer-director Joss Whedon, hosts a live chat with Felicia Day, actress and creator of the award-winning online series The Guild, on Sunday, July 20, 2008.

Ms. Day appears as the love interest in Whedon’s three-part musical superhero satire, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog(www.DrHorrible.com) which ends the free webcast of its episodes that day. 

The chat will begin at 10AM PDT (12PM CDT/1PM EDT/5PM UTC) for registered users, in a Q&A  format with Felicia for one hour, after which fans can discuss the Dr. Horrible series with each other. It can be reached at www.WhedonAge.com

The site’s members will have the opportunity to submit questions in advance, in case they are unable to join the live chat event. Instructions for accessing the chat service will be available on the site.

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Neil Patrick Harris talks Chicago Tribune’s “The Watcher”, Maureen Ryan about Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

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“I got an e-mail from Joss that said, ‘Gang, we broke the Internet.’ That’s all it said. Which is awesome,” said “Dr. Horrible” star Neil Patrick Harris, who I talked to at a CBS party on Friday.

Even Whedon was surprised by “Dr. Horrible’s” runaway success, which he created with his brothers Jed and Zack and Maurissa Tancharoen.

“We had this home-baked idea that we love and we’re proud of,” Whedon told USA Today. “We made this on the understanding that we’d never make a dime. But it’s blown up beyond our expectations.”

“[W]e were just hoping it would build over time, people would start to spread the world and people would enjoy it,” Jed Whedon said in an interview with the fan site DoctorHorrible.net. “We didn’t expect everybody to try and see it at once.”

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“Once I actually downloaded Jed singing the [unfinished] tracks, I had trouble not listening to it,” Harris said. “I listened to it all the time. Partly because I had to sing it, partly just because I think the songs are really, really catchy… I’ve watched the three parts probably seven or eight times each. And I was in it! I gain nothing by doing that except I think that they’re really clever.”

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“Joss has some strange, giant master plan that includes much more than a sequel,” Harris said. “Joss thinks on a great many levels, so when he was pitching it to us, he said, ‘And this will take over the world, and there will be sequels and musicals on stage and feature films and we’ll get our own television network and they’ll name awards after us’ and things like that.”

But Harris, who returns to work on the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother” in three weeks, added that there were no concrete plans in the immediate future to film another “Dr. Horrible” episode (Web-isode? Minisode? Horri-sode?)

“I think we’re all giggling like little schoolgirls for about a week or so, then he’ll figure out what he wants to do next,” Harris said. “You’ll probably have to ask him.”

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