As The Sarah Connor Chronicles hits DVD and Blu-ray next Monday, Thomas Dekker spills the beans on the show's cancellation and Joss Whedon’s “failure” with Doll House...

“I’m sure I’m not supposed to say this, but that’s how I live my life,” says Thomas Dekker, with a metaphorical can of worms in one hand and a can opener in the other. He’s on the phone from his home in LA talking about the cancellation of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

“I think what happened was that we were doing far better overseas than we were in the States. Brian Austin Green just got back from Japan, and he told me that we were the number one-selling DVD ever in Japan for our first season. The problem was that it was a Warner Bros/Fox show and only Warner Bros was making any international money. So Warners really wanted the show to keep going with DVD and international sales doing just peachy, but Fox was the one that had to keep buying it and we weren’t getting good numbers in the States. Fox wasn’t seeing any of that money and Dollhouse was cheaper.”

The decision to cancel Sarah Connor seems particularly harsh when the struggling Dollhouse was handed another season to prove itself. “Dollhouse is a piece of shit,” fires off an uncompromising Dekker. “Joss Whedon was a really big fan of our show, that’s why he asked to have them paired together. He’s very close with [Sarah Connor creator] Josh Friedman and what Josh was telling me, and through Summer Glau who’d done Firefly with him, was that even Joss was not happy with Dollhouse. Basically, he said you try some ideas and sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. And in his mind he considered Dollhouse a bit of a failure, artistically speaking.”

Back to The Sarah Connor Chronicles - and the finale raises questions, as the show ended on a cliffhanger... “They’re talking of doing a two-hour TV or DVD movie but I don’t know when that would happen,” reveals Dekker. “Our third season – I know where it was going – would have been fucking amazing. It would’ve been so cool!”