In a Q&A posted to The Hollywood Reporter’s “The Live Feed” blog by James Hibberd, Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly spoke on a broad variety of topics, including but not limited to a number of projects that Blog@ readers hold dear.  Some highlights:

• Calling the show “a keeper,” Reilly strongly implied but stopped short of actually confirming the network’s plans to renew Fringe next season.  He added about ratings, “I would not expect it to take off after ‘Idol,’ but I do think it will tick up another level.”
• Whedon’s Dollhouse also rated a few comments, with Reilly telling The Hollywood Reporter “Joss Whedon does a certain kind of show. He’s right in the zone again on that. It’s the kind of show that we know has a core passionate audience.”  He said that the show will, at minimum, be given 13 episodes to “play out” and a compatible lead-in, as it’ll go on the air right after Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
• Reilly did concede, though, that both Fringe and Dollhouse remain “tough sells” to advertisers.
• Regarding Cleveland, the new animated comedy centering around Family Guy’s Cleveland Brown, which was referred to internally and by the press as a spinoff (including by Cleveland himself during a recent episode of Family Guy), Reilly issued a tweak of the language, saying, “It’s not a spinoff. It’s really become its own show … with, frankly, a sweeter tone than Family Guy.” (No word on whether he would frequently find his house damaged and himself sliding down the side of the broken building in a bathtub in the show.)
• Reilly also revealed the the Virtuality pilot from Battlestar Galactica mastermind Ronald D. Moore, has been cut from two hours back to one.

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