Now THIS is the kind of thing I always thought an Active might be hired for. In the fourth episode of Dollhouse, Echo (Eliza Dushku) will be hired as an expert safe-cracker! While I chalked up the third episode as disappointing compared to the excitement offered in Episode 2, I think this week’s episode, Gray Hour, will prove to be just as entertaining as Episode 2.

It looks like maybe that Friday night timeslot is depressing the Dollhouse ratings after all. Dollhouse made a huge jump in viewership for its premiere episode, Ghost, once time-shifted numbers were taken into account this week. The numbers show that its rating jumped 30 percent and went from a 2.0 in the adult demographic up to a 2.6.

As quickly and as mysteriously as it began, the Fox “Dollhouse” alternate-reality game known as “Dollplay” has come to a close. The game asked players to “Save Hazel,” a woman trapped in some sort of container that has connections to the company behind the Dollhouse. Find out from embedded blogger Joanna Griekspoor how a dedicated group of gamers did just that — saved Hazel.

Dollhouse fans, there’s some interesting news coming out of the Whedonverse that I had to share with you. It turns out that NASA wants to rename a new section of its International Space Station — apparently “Node 3″ wasn’t cool enough — and a name Joss Whedon fans know and love is leading the vote right now.

The Dollhouse saga continues tonight on Fox! Echo (Elizah Dushku) and Sierra (Dichen Lachman) will help protect a pop singer tonight in the third episode of the season. Plus, from the looks of it, Agent Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett) will have a slightly bigger role in tonight’s episode. That has to excite plenty of fans — and is tonight the night Echo and Agent Ballard fight?

We will have a live chat starting at 9 p.m. EST, and that chat will last throughout the night, so make sure you head here first to chat with other Dollhouse fans.

It’s rare that Eliza Dushku gets to be, well, Eliza Dushku. But on this particular Thursday afternoon, dressed in a pair of yoga pants, eating Trader Joe’s chili out of the can and hanging out at home with her two dogs, she’s at her most comfortable. Find out what Eliza tells USA Today about “Dollhouse” and “ending on a strong note.”

CraveOnline.com sat down with “Dollhouse” creator Joss Whedon, and thankfully for us, they asked more than just surface questions. We all know now that Joss created the show after a luncheon with Eliza Dushku. Now find out how Joss creates these sprawling TV shows. The man doesn’t create a character or two. He creates an entire world; or more accurately given “Firefly,” he creates entire universes.

As “Dollhouse” fans prepare to say hello to one Whedonite alum, is another Joss Whedon veteran bowing out early? Unless Amy Acker plans on juggling two series, that could be exactly what she is doing. Zap2It.com reports that Acker has accepted a role in a new ABC pilot.

The cast of Fox Dollhouse were asked, “If you were an Active, which skills would you want to be imprinted with?” Find out what Eliza Dushku, Tahmoh Penikett, Harry Lennix and the rest of the Dollhouse cast would choose if they were real-life dolls. Find out what they said and then let us know what you’d choose!

“Dollhouse” fans, the mystery is solved. We can now definitively tell you that Alan Tudyk is the mysterious rogue doll Alpha (or Alfa based on the correct NATO spelling) in Joss Whedon’s latest gem of a TV show. We first brought you this story Feb. 15 when we continued our series exploring who the mysterious actor playing Alpha might be. We brought you two names — Alan Tudyk and Michael Muhney. It turns out we didn’t have to explore much more than that because the second post nailed it.