For those not paying attention, it looks like somebody in Hollywood went ahead and officially declared January of 2010 as “Joss Whedon Month.”

First, Mr. Whedon’s fledgling series, Dollhouse, returns to FOX tomorrow night, January 8, with a series finale planned for January 22 (Thanks for the big run, FOX!).

Secondly, Joss will be honored on Saturday, January 24 by the Producers Guild of America for the award-winning science-fiction and fantasy storyteller’s body of work as a producer, writer, director and creator of the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse; his script work on Toy Story, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Alien Resurrection and Titan A.E.; and his made-for-the-Internet musical superhero spoof Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog.

And, if that’s still not enough Joss Whedon for you, then you might want to pick yourself up a copy of The Write Environment’s one-on-one DVD interview with…(wait for it)…Joss Whedon.

Created, hosted and executive produced by screenwriter Jeffrey Berman (Hallmark’s The Last Rainmaker), the Whedon interview is one of a series of DVD chats with writers like Sam Simon (The Simpsons), Tim Kring (Heroes), Damon Lindelof (Lost) and others, all produced by Berman under his Write Environment banner.

And, despite some incredibly uncreative questions (How do you face the blank page?) Whedon is both creative and instructive in his answers, discussing his work space; his work day; story structure; the difference between TV and movies; building mythologies; story mechanics; serialized television; comedy; killing off characters; learning from actors; dealing with executives and a wide range of other topics.

Joss is terrific and I can’t imagine that anyone, whether an audience-member or an industry insider, not learning something from Joss’ thoughtful side of this recorded conversation.

And I call it a “recorded conversation” because, like a lot of productions helmed by writers, Jeffrey Berman’s Write Environment series can’t really be called filmmaking. The production values are strictly prosumer. The lighting is unnecessarily harsh and blown-out (Get that crew some gels!), the principals wear zero make-up (Yikes!) and some of the editing is jump-cut choppy in a good way that’s irritating and intrusive.

It’s not hard to imagine a visually oriented content creator like Joss Whedon looking at the finished project and wondering how his dynamic interview got wrapped up in compromised production values not seen since the Writers Guild Strike Line viral videos.

But why go out on a negative?

Let’s give Jeffrey Berman an A for his efforts to showcase the writer’s point of view in TV and film production and let’s give Joss Whedon an A-plus for having a point of view that’s well worth listening to….if not seeing.

For more on The Writer Environment’s interview series of DVDs, go here.