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| Alyson Hannigan appeared on That 70's Show on February 18th. Kelso makes an inept attempt to fix Fez up with Suzy, a co-cadet at the police academy. Alyson also appeared on the show again on the 25th. In this episode Eric and Donna freak out when she realizes that she's missed taking a birth control pill. And Kelso and Fez aren't speaking., and Suzy tries to bring them back together. Hopefully Alyson will be back more for episodes in the current season 6 in America. There is an article at Zap2it, 'Hannigan plays good cop on 'that 70's show' about Alyson's appearance on the show so click here to view the article. www.that70sshow.com |
| Gellar Talks Scooby 2- Sarah Michelle Gellar, who reprises the role of Daphine in the upcoming Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, told SCI FI Wire that she's acting with new husband Freddie Prinze Jr. (Fred), but doesn't take the role home at night. "We often play cartoon at home, yes," she joked during an interview on the film's Vancouver, B.C, set last summer. "No, it's pretty easy. I wouldn't reccomend it. I think working with your partner is incredibly difficult, no matter what industry you're in, whether you're both writers for a similar magazine or whatever job you are." |
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| EUROTRIP- When the German pen pal that a high school student, Scott Thomas (Mechlowicz), has been using to help him get an "A" in German (by translating his homework over the internet) for years suggests that they meet, the boy's reactions to freak out, thinking that "Meike" is a) a guy and b) some sort of of older sexual stalker, looking for a boyfriend. When he discovers to his delight that his pen pal is actually cute fraulein (Boehrs), he and his best friend, Copper (Pitts), who tries to con his summer internship boss into thinking he's still in ASmerica, fly to Europe, accompanied by twins Jenny (Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Wester), after graduation to meet her, in an exciting and sometimes wacky trip across Europe (London to Paris to Amsterdam), headed for Berlin. Starring: Scott Mechlowicz, Jacob Pitts, Michelel Trachtenberg :), Travis Wester, Jessica Boehrs. Interviews- There is an interview with Michelle and Scott about the movie at CHUD. There is also an interview with Michelle about the movie, her other projects, buffy stuff etc. at TeenHollywood.com. |
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| Below is parts of the exclusive interview with J. August Richards about the cancellation of Angel. The original interview can be found on his offical website, http://www.jaugustrichards.com Rana: How do you feel about the decision? J: Well, First, I am gonna miss coming to work with the people, whom I grown close to over the years, and I work with everyday. I am going to miss my character whom I have grown to love and thirdly and i'm going to miss the world wide Angel fans and family that has supported us. Rana: Is there anything you would like to say to your fans regarding the cancellation of the show? J: Yes, thank you for supporting us, specifically me for the four years I have been on the show. I feel so grateful for that and having met so many of my fans around the world has truely been an amazing experience. Thanks for everything and I don't want to sound final because I don't feel this is final. The show is not airing next season but I don't feel its over. Rana: Would you work with any of your cast members on another show? J: In a heartbeat! |
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| Multiple nominations for vampire show in top sci-fi awards- In an ironic twist, the just-cancelled vampire show has been nominated in four categories of the prestigious Saturn Awards. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was nominated in three categoiries. Both series were nominated in the important Best Network Television Series, alongside Alias, CSI, Smallville and Enterprise. David Borneanaz and Sarah Michelle Gellar also won nominations in the Best Actor/Actress in a Tv Series cetegories. The list also included ex-Buffy star Eliza Dushku, for her new series Tru Calling. Amy Acker and Charisma Carpenter both appeared on the list for Best Supporting Actress, while best Supporting Actor saw Alexis Denisof and James Marsters nominated, the latter for both Buffy and Angel. The awards are organised by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and are now in their thirteenth year. Saturn Awards Nominations |
| International Horror Guild- The international horror guild are now in it's tenth year and this year Angel has been nominated for an award in the Televsion catergory, alongside Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me,, The Dead Zone, and Carnivale. |
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| Alyson Hannigan on making her West End debut- In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Alyson says she is petrified about appearing on the stage version of When Harry Met Sally, but keen to get up there. "I might as well start big,right? Skip the baby steps and take a huge leap," she jokes. Alyson is quick to answer critics that bemoan the current trend of Americans starring in West End. "First of all, this play takes place in New York so I think it's better with Americans. And, you know, a lot of you English people come to America. I think it's give and take, and it's a good sign. To come here is something that people view as a great thing in your career. I do understand that it's becoming more and more popular, but I don't care if you hate me for doing it. I wanted to come to prove myself that I could do it." She's also keen to alley fears that the play won't be as good as the original film. "I can see why people think it shouldn't be tampered with because the movie was so wonderful," she says. "I think it's going to be one of those things that's going to have a life of its own for years and years and years. Like The Producers. It really works on stage." Indeed, Alyson has avoided watching the movie since being cast. "I don't want to make the wrong choice just to be different from what Meg Ryan did, but, at the same time, I'm not doing an impersonation." When Harry Met Sally, currently in previews ( 10th Feb.), opens at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket on 20th February for a run of sixteen weeks. When Harry Met Sally |
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| A Stake Through The Heart of Quality Television- For many, Friday the 13th is a day of superstition. It is a day where one should watch over shoulders and remain ever vigilant lest something dreadful happens upon them. And last Friday, 13th February 2004, something vile transpired within the hallowed land of signals, coaxial cable and pizza-sized satellite receivers. This was the day the five-year-old program Angel died at the hands of a merciless troll (read "television executive") at the WB network. The news was sudden and unmistakably savage. Was this not the same Angel that had just received praise in the media for reaching its milestone 100th episode the prior week? The show described as the "hit spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer"? Surely it was. Futher investigation of the WB's own website found that this newly cancelled series had improved its ratings over the last season's by a monstrous 36%. Equally shocking to learn, the cancelled show was the second highest rated show on the network (behind Smallville) amongst the coveted demographic aged 18-34. Obviously the logic was lacking behind this curse. |
| a letter from joss whedon- My precious little interweb fanlings...once again you are privileged to witness the delightful spectacle of my total mastery of -- ecgghk! Sorry. Something in my throat. Anyhoo, this is Joss. I made an episode. "A Hole in The World." Why this?, why now? Well, a lot of it has to do with Fred. And with our Ms. Acker, who portrays her. I tohught of a storty that would really let her shine, let people see beyond the cute, run-on sentency Texan we all know and love. And you know what love means, kids: PAIN! Yes, I wanted some quality pain for my cast, and as I focused on Fred and her position on the team I realized that she is at the center of it in a way. She is, simply, the only thing that EVERYONE agrees on. Even Spike. And so Fred in pain, Fred in peril, brings out the best (and worst) in every single character, and gives me a chance to do what I always set out to do when I make an episode: remember why I love all these characters. Which means I (and you, unless you don't watch) get to see sides of the characters, ALL the characters, that I haven't explored before. Wes, Gunn, Spike, Lorne, Eve, and Angel himself all showed me colours I didn't even know they were carrying. And Fred... let's just say I'm proud to be working with these actors. It's not pretty, being the guy who followed the puppet episode. But i'm excited about this piece. It came from the part of my brain we generally label "the heart." -Joss Whedon |
| Angel Fate Seems Grim- David Fury, excutive producer of The WB's cancelled vampire series Angel, told SCI FI Wire that he was doubtful the show will migrate to the UPN next year, though he confirmed that talks are underway. "There were and are conversations going on with UPN," Fury said in an interview at the Wolfram & Hart Annual Revue fan charity ball on Feb.21. Fury added, "But in likelihood they don't have the financial wherewithal to continue the series. It's less expensive than Buffy was for them, but trying to bring a show that's...going to be going into a sixth season, it's not really financially responsible for them to pick up a show that doesn't really have much of a future beyond one more season." UPN picked up two more seasons of Angel's predecessor series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after The WB cancelled it. |
| Bell Recounts Angel Staking- Jeff Bell, co-executive producer of The WB's cancelled vampire series Angel, told SCI FI Wire that the cast and crew responded in different ways when he, co-creater Joss Whedon and other writer-producers arrived on the Paramount Pictures lot to break the news. "Most of our people deal with pain through humour," Bell said in an interview. "So there were a lot of horrible jokes, there were some tears and there was also a feeling of 'What are you going to do?' The writing's been on the wall. We've escaped it the last couple of years and not it's finally caught up with us." Bell added, "So the reaction is all over the place. There's loss. When I first heard the news from Joss I thought, 'Oh, that's too bad.' Then, when we went over to tell the crew, I found myself profoundly sad. It really didn't hit until we were over on the set. That day, Friday, was a bust. We came in on Monday to work and there was a really strange sense of humour in the office because we were all reeling." Though Whedon is making what Bell reffered to as "courtesy calls" to the UPN and other possible outlets, Bell doubts Angel will carry on as a weekly series. "I think it's a long shot," he said. "If it happens, fantastic. I think we're all treating it like 'Ok, this is it,' in terms of how you have to deal with the emotional reality of it. If there's a reprieve, we'll turn around. But right now I think we're all feeling like it's over." |
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| Bell Previews Angel- Jeff Bell...recently told SCI FI Wire that upcoming episodes will focus on Lindsey (Christian Kane) and Connor (Vincent Kartheiser). The episodes, "Underneath" and "Origin," were already in production when the WB made its fateful announcement about Angel's fate. "Lindsey showed up and then disappeared quite quickly and we get to place where we think, 'You know what? We need information,' " Bell said in an interview. "And so we bust Lindsey out of hell. It's sort of The Great Escape, with our guys going in and trying to find Lindsey so we can find out what he knows about us being at Wolfram & Hart. So we've got Lindsey and Eve (Sarah Thompson) front and centre on that, and we also bring in a new character. Adam Baldwin is going to do a few episodes for us as a representative of Wolfram & Hart. He'll be a contrast to Eve. It's male-female, big-small." Bell then revealed that "Origin" will feature the return of Angel's son Connor. "Vincent has agreed to come in and do a new episode for us, and we're going to see the result of the deal that Angel made at the end of last season," Bell said. "It'll be fun to have Connor show up as a happy, healthy and well-adjusted kid, the kid he oculd never be in season four. And for Angel ther will be the pain of knowing this is his son, but that nobody else can know that." |
| Dushku's Bad Luck With Bags- Actress Eliza Dushku, star of Tru Calling, has taken to buying cheap luggage after having her expensive Louis Vuitton bags stolen twice during her travels in the past year. The former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star admits she feels like the ultimate thieves' target following her spate of bad luck. She says, "It was a tough year for my luggage because I've had my luggage stolen twice this year. I went to Miami with a bunch of friends about six months ago and we checked out of the hotel, and they say sometimes people watch you get in your car." "We stopped to get something to eat for two minutes and we came back and the window was smashed out and all my luggage was gone. So that was a really big bummer because I had been shopping and brought all my cute stuff at South Beach too." "And then I was robbed and mugged in Seattle. These guys really set me up...like this shady limo company. They took me to this spot off the highway. They were supposed to dribe me to Vancouver because my flight was delayed. It was a whole mess. They stole my luggage again. It's really harsh because now I'm like bag lady and I have duty free bags when I'm on a plane." |
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| Happy N' Ever After- Sarah Michelle Gellar Talks about her Prinze: In an interview with Teen Hollywood.com, Sarah Michelle Gellar has said that she and husband Freddie Prince Jr. will never work together again. The pair are currently adding their voices to animation Happily N'Ever After. "It difficult to live with someone and come to work too," Sarah told the site. "I wouldn't recommend it. Luckily in this situation, we were doing a big action, fun, cartoon movie." "It wasn't serious and I didn't go home every night wondering, 'How ever will I say my one line tomorrow?' "It was a little bit easier and freer, but I don't think you'll ever be seeing the big drama story between us." Sarah and Freddie previously worked together on I Know What You Did Last Summer; She's All That and the two Scooby Doo movies. The couples' decision not to work together again calls into question the possibility of a third Scooby Doo film. However, the couple hopes that it will mean they are kept out of the celebrity magazines and tabloids. "We're rarely in those magazines. Isn't it great?" "Neither of us are very public and we're both very focused on our marriage and our work and we don't want to live this high-profile Hollywood couple style thing." "We live very quietly and neither of us wants to change that." |
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| Gellar Open To Angel Gig- Sarah Michelle Gellar told SCI FI Wire the reasons she reluctantly pulled out of appearing in the Buffy spinoff Angel earlier this season and left open the possibility that she might still make an appearance, if asked, before Angel winds up its fifth and final season this year on the WB. Gellar, speaking for the first time about the issue, said in an interview that she had to bow out of a planned guest appearance on Angel when her aunt died last year. Gellar spoke to SCI FI Wire during a break in the filming of her new project, the supernatural horror film The Grudge, in Tokyo. Her Angel decision was " a really common misconception that people have written a lot about," Gellar said. "They had asked me to do Angel, and it was a very bad time in my personal life. There was a lot going on in my family. I had to back out. And you sort of never hear the second side of the story. You never hear why I didn't do it. And then all of a sudden, people get really angry, and nobody asks why it didn't work for you." At the time, reports suggest Gellar had pulled out because she wanted to distance herself from the Buffy franchise. As for whether she will guest star in Angel's season-ending episodes, much as Angel star David Borneanaz did on Buffy when it was wrapped its seven-year run last spring, Gellar said it hinges in part of schedule. She's finishing the final weeks of 42 days of shooting on The Grudge, with at least none more shooting days to go. The final Angel series episodes are in production now. "A lot has been written recently, 'Oh, is she going to do it? Is she not oging to do it?' " Gellar said. "Well, to be truthful, I don't know if I'm even going to make it home before they finish. But no one's contacted me. I'll be totally honest. And it depends. I think. I go back and forth on the idea, especially because Angel had such a hard time, in my opinion, always getting out from Buffy's shadow. And it never got to stand on its own. And I would hate for it to go out being about Buffy. It'll all depend on if i'm home in time and what the ideas are." Buffy and Angel creator Joss Whedon has said he'd welcome an appearance by Gellar. For her part, she said she's open to it, explaining, "If everything falls into place, and it feels like the right thing at the time for the right people." |
| IGN FilmForce Exclusive: Angel Producers Confirm UPN Decision- "Too expensive," says network. March 03,2004- In response to a news report at SyFy Portal, sources within Mutant Enemy have confirmed to IGM FilmForce that the UPN network has passed on the option to pick up Angel. No official statement has yet been released from either Mutant Enermy or UPN but from all indictions, the series will end with episode 22 of this season. |
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| UPN Passes on ANGEL- Friday, 05 March 2004 Earlier in the week, Sy Fy Portal had a report that UPN likely wasn't going to pick up ANGEL, which was recently cancelled by the WB. "The show is just too far in its lifespan to really make decent money on it," said a source from Viacom, which owns UPN. "It was a mistake for UPN to grab BUFFY so late, and it ended up costing (the network) money. ROSWELL is another example of how it just isn't feasible for UPN at this time." On Thursday, IGN FilmForce confirmed the report by contacting Mutant Enemy, ANGEL'S producing company. Neither Mutant Enemy nor 20th Century Fox have released a statement yet, but all signs point to this being the last season of the show. It's still possible, however, that the WB could air tv movies based on the show. Both SupportAngel and Saving Angel are asking that you no longer send postcards and gestures of support to UPN. However, both sites recommend alternate courses of action. |
| News Bites 8/3/2004-MediasharX Back From Hell? ANGEL might return form the dead, according to poster over at City of Angel: "My friend flukie (inside info guy) has informed me that the WB has signed Angel up for a 6th season provided that the rating increase and the pleas to keep Angel alive are massing over the 2 million mark so the WB will consider Angel to be its most important asset." Take that with a grain of salt. |
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| Save 'Angel' campaign takes flight- LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- "Angel" acolytes are nothing if not devoted, determined and organized. Fans of Joss Whedon's soon-to-be-cancelled WB Network srama series sprung into action last month once it became official that the spawn of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" would get the big spike in May. The "Save Angel" postcards and full page ads have been flowing into The Hollywood Reporter and other publications for weeks, but "Angel" fans distinguished themselves from past fanfueled salvage initiatives last week by hiring (at $700 a day) a billboard truck to drive around Los Angeles and park at strategic locations (including THR'S Wilshire Boulevard offices, Warner Bros. and the WB, Paramount, UPN, HBO and 20th Century Fox) for maxium impact and, of course, free media exposure. ("We will follow 'Angel' to hell...or another network," the billboard promises.) Theresa Fortier, one of the instigators of the http://www.Saving Angel.org Web site, said the group has raised some $22,000 from several hundred donors in just a few weeks. The truck will crusie around for at least another week, and more print ads are likely to be placed. "We've made it clear to (donors) that what we're doing wouldn't necessarily save the show, but if no one was gonna go broke, we'd appreciate whatever they could give," Fortier said. "We just want it known that we're concerned that the end seems near for quality TV drama. We don't want to lose the one last tie we have to Joss Whedon universe." |
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| Gellar Not In Angel End- Sarah Michelle Gellar will not be resurrecting Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the finale of The WB spinoff series Angel after all, TV Guide Online reported. Gellar was reportedly asked to appear in the second-to-last episode, airing May 5, but was working on her upcoming supernatural movie The grudge while that hour was being shot, the site reported. Gellar was free to appear in the finale, which airs May 19, but Angel executive producer Joss Whedon told the site that he didn't want the send-off to "revolve around a guest star." "We will deal with the issue of Buffy and how much she means to Angel and Spike, but I want to end the show with the people who've been in the trenches together, the characters who have lived - and occasionally died - together: the regulars." The May 5 episode will reportedly resolve the Angel-Spike-buffy triangle, though Gellar won't appear, producers told the site. "Angel and Spike arrive at an understanding. That's all I'll say about that," executive producer Jeffrey Bell told TV Guide. "And without her being involved, Buffy's character has come to some sort of understanding, too." |
| Actresses returning to ANGEL- Moviehole, quoting a Joss Whedon interview in TV Guide, reports that several past BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ANGEL actresses will be appearing on the latter show before it winds down its last season on the WB. Julie Benz will be back as Darla, Angel's lover and the mother of his son Connor, and Juliet Landau returns as Drusilla both presumably in flashback sequences (though in ANGEL'S world, you never know). In addition, Michelle Trachtenberg will appear, reprising her role of Buffy's sister Dawn, and there's a chance Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar, will make an appearance. "If she's available, she'll do it," Gellar's manager says. So does that mean some resolution of the war for Buffy's affections between Angel (David Borneanaz) and Spike (James Marsters)? "The question of Angel vs. Spike looms large in Buffy's mind and in the minds of fans," says Whedon. "But i'm not saying whether or not I have decided to answer it...Angel and Spike will ultimately feel some kind of resolve about their conflict over Buffy, [but] it won't be all about that." "The whole point of ANGEL is the idea of the fight and how it never stops," Whedon continues. "The finale was always meant to be open-ended in some respect. That doesn't mean I won't kill everybody, but I might not [explain] why." |
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| Seth on Scooby Doo- Oz actor on reuniting with Sarah Michelle Gellar for Scooby Doo 2. Actoer Seth Green, who played teen wolf Oz over three seasons of Buffy has been talking up his latest film role. Green is once again sharing a screen with Buffy co-star Sarah Michelle Gellar in the forthcoming movie Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. He plays Patrick, the curator of the museum housing the costumes of the ghosts and monsters that the Mystery Inc. gang have unmasked. When a bad guy steals the costumes and starts bringing them to life, the curator is a prime suspect. Green recently spoke about his role to About.com. Asked if he found it different working with Sarah Michelle Gellar on Scooby Doo 2 than on Buffy, he said.. "In the last few years with her getting married and her getting a real sense of comfort with who she is as a person, she's much happier. She just seems to radiate a sense of comfort in her own skin and that's great. "I've known her since I was nine years old and I have the utmost respect and admiration for her. I think she's a really talented actress. I think she's handled herself very gracefully through everything that she's had to experience in the last six or seven years. It was great. It was really nice to see her." His friendship with Gellar and other members of the cast also made it easy to slot into the role of Patrick. "It makes a huge difference because there's a lot of guesswork taken out, " he said. "I've known Sarah forever and I was in Freddie's first movie. Linda I was a fan of but never met her before and Matthew and I have known each other in passing. But, I've always wanted to work with him. I was really excited because the first few scenes I got to work with him set the tone right off." |
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| Cartoon Network Figures on Figures- Thursday, 25 March 2004 Seth Green (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, AUSTIN POWERS) will executive produce a stop motion series for Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. The as yet untitled series, greenlit for twenty episodes, will spotlight as Green describes " 'Saturday Night Live' with toys instead of actors." The show is the brainchild of Green and Wizard Entertainment editorial director Matthew Senriech and is slated to join Adult Swim in October. In related news, Green is in negotiations to reprise his role as eldest son Chris on Seth McFarlane's FAMILY GUY for new episodes to begin in 2005 on Cartoon Network. |
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| Want Anthony Stewart Head news? Well I got some right here: Anthony Head: Slaying em' in the aisles 19/3/04 Giles Alert- Anthony Stewart Head to star in BBC1 drama 22/3/04 |
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| Celeste In The City- Bespectacled, frizzy-haired college grad Celeste Blodgett (Majandra Delfino, "Roswell") lands a job at a top newspaper, and bis farewell to her family in Maine to tackle life in the Big Apple. Soon after arriving, she's dismayed to discover that she's not a reporter after all, but a fact-checker. Also, her "great" apartment turns out ot be a rat infested dump. The only bright spot is her neighbour Kyle (Ethan Embry), who's handsome, charming and handy around the house. He's also an interior designer, which leads naive Celeste to assume he's gay. Before long, Celeste decides to go along with her mother's wishes and looks up her cousin Dana (Nicholas Brendon, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"). He, as it turns out, is gay, hasn't told his parents about it, and has abandoned the name Blodgett for the more fashionable Harrison. "I was just really uncomfortable in my clothes, how tight they were. They're not what I'm used to wearing. My hair was down to here." He points to a spot in the middle of his forehead. "I had eyeliner on. I just wanted to leave." Make-over artist: Nicholas Brendon goes for laughs in 'Celeste In The City' 12/3/04 |
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| Buffy The Vampire Slayer Apocalypse Memories- There is a new novel out for Buffy fans based on the very end of Buffy. It is written by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz. It's the end of the world as they know it.. and Buffy and Co have one last shot which just might save the day. Trouble is, it needs Willow to cast a spell, a spell they already know could have disastrous side effects. And the last time Willow did that it was she herself who very nearly brought about the apocalypse.. You can find an extract from the book at the BBC site. |
| Watcher's Guide Number Three- It's finally here! If you go to Amazon.com you will find the new Wacher's Guide: Volume 3 there. You can't buy it at the moment but you can look at the pretty picture of the cover AND you can pre-order the book. |
| Guardian Unlimited Politics, Lucy Mangan, Saturday March 13, 2004- The Guardian It's always fun to watch a member of officialdom dipping a tentative toe into the shallows of a popular culture, particularly as no one ever sees fit to warn them of the quicksands beneath before they roll up their trousers and start splashing about. This week it was the turn of Ofsted's head David Bell, who in a speech to mark International Women's Day on Monday, recommended Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a valuable role model for girls. Let's be clear about this. Buffy is a great TV show. It may even be one that lasts down the ages, and not just because an age is now defined by the MTV generation in term of picoseconds. It's fast, it's funny, it brought Wicca lesbians into homes from Poughkeepsie to Peoria, and it gave gainful employment to David Boreanaz, despite the fact that at some point in the late 90's his neck became disconcertingly thicker than his head. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREAT, GREAT, GREAT article. Definately is worth it to read the whole article here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Last line of the article)- And then we can enjoy Buffy for what she really is - ass-kicking entertainment. |
| Scooby 2 Scares Off Box Office Zombies- Monday March 29,2004: Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed has bounded into first place at the US box office. The sequel to the 2002 film made an estimated $30.7m, beating off a number of new realeases and pushing last week's number one, Dawn of the Dead, down to fourth spot. Scooby-Doo 2 made nowhere near as much as the original film, which took in $54.1m on its opening, in June 2002. However, it performed better than industry expectations and producer Chuck Roven pronounced himself "very happy" with the performance. "We think we have good word of mouth," he told Varity. |
| What Buffy did next- (28 March 2004) Sarah Michelle Gellar buried Buffy and never looked back. She tells Martyn Palmer about life, love and Scooby-Doo 2. The day after she finished filming Buffy The Vampire Slayer for the very last time, Sarah Michelle Gellar started work on Scooby-Doo 2. It was, she says, the best to try and keep busy. After eight years, and seven groundbreaking seasons, Gellar called things quit with an understandably heavy heart but an overwhelming belief that the time was right to finally move on. But even now, a year later, she hasn't really taken it in. "I finally finished Buffy on April 15 and started Scooby on April 16 and everyone kept saying, 'you don't have time to mourn, you don't have time to understand...' But I thought, 'you know, it's better this way..' "I got to pack up and go somewhere new and different, but familiar at the same time. I was with the guys from the first Scooby movie and it was a fun experience. And that was a good thing coming straight after Buffy, just what I needed. But i'm not sure that I've grasped the fact that I really have left Buffy behind." To read more of this SMG article go to http://www.sundayherald.com/ |
| Watcher: The Path of Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: (Written by Amy Berner.) "Funny thing about black and white - you mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray." - Lilah, HABEAS CORPSES Amidst the recent death of Fred and the appearance of Illyria, there is another event that you'd think might get a little more attraction. In SHELLS, Weslet stabbed Gunn. Calmly. Without remorse. And yet, nobody was really all that suprised by this, were they? I wasn't. Shocked and saddened, yes, but not truly surprised. But, taking a step back, I have to wonder why that is. Why aren't we surprised? How is it that a character can be that brutal to former friend and comrade-in-arms without a huge outcry from fans? The fact that the wound wasn't fatal doesn't explain this away. A part of it is certainly our anger at Gunn for making the incredibly poor judgement call when his legal knowledge was reinstalled. Actions have consequences. If they didn't... Well, it wouldn't be a Joss Whedon show, would it? This has always been one of the main tenets of his shows. But that isn't the whole story. A big chunk of our lack of surprise comes from our watching Wesley's development of the years. Mos of the attention might be paid to the undead on ANGEL, but for my money, the most fascinating character on the show is Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. Haven't seen an article like this for a while. I mean it's not everday someone writes an article on Wesley. Besides it's a great article and it's worth reading the rest so if you can be bothered to read the rest go to this site url: http://darkworlds.com/hs/art_13555.html |
| Gellar Wanted To Kick Ass- Sarah Michelle Gellar says her ambition is to appear in a martial arts movie. The Buffy and Scooby Doo star says she would have loved a role in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. The 26-year-old also says she'll make the move to theatre one day. She said: "I would absolutely love to tread the boards of London. That's something I will do. Maybe not this year, but it's on the horizon, definately." Gellar admits she's still coming to terms with the end of Buffy. "Ever day I ask myself did I do the right thing? There are so many I miss about the show. I can go to gym every day and do all the physcial action stuff, but I miss it for so many other reasons." Cinema fans can see her in Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. The sequel meant she got to work with husband Freddie Prinze Jr. "There was no making out. What people don't realise ist hat when we go to work we're actors and when we go home, we're a couple," she said. The movie sees the monster huntind gang of Mystery Inc. lose their cool when they're confronted with a masked villain wreaking mayhem. For Gellar, who plays purple-loving Daphne, it was another chance to do what she loves best - kick some serious butt. The star is an expert in gymnastics, sword-fighting and Tae Kwon Do and says her ambition is to appear in a martial arts movie. "My favourite is a Korean movie called Hero, which has horseback fighting and fight scenes on water. It's just amazing." Gellar has just returned from a three month trip to Tokyo shooting The Grudge, and says she fell in love with Far Eastern Culture. As for future projects, she says: "I've achieved more in my 26 years than I ever thought I would and so now I can choose to so film, TV or theatre because I want to work with someone, or I want to go an exotic location. I really can't wait to go to work." |
| Boreanaz in Firefly? Will the broody one be in Joss's sci fi movie? Firefly star Gina Torres has said that David Boreanaz may step aboard good ship Serenity for the Firefly movie. According to website Dark Horizons, the actress was speaking at the Sci Fi Slam convention in Pasadena. Hasving guested in Angel ( as gorgeous and threatening Jasmine), the actress is no stranger to the charms of Angel, and expressed her regret that the hsow was ending, before continuing, "I is not lost, because Joss wants to get David to do Serenity." She also cheerfully confirmed that Ron Glass (Shepherd Book) would be returning for the movie - the only cast member of the original series not already confirmed. |
| MediasharX: News Bites Wind in the Willow: E!Online's Kirstin is reporting that Alyson Hannigan may be available ro make an appearance in the ANGEL finale, as she will be taking a break form her play to film a pilot in L.A Kirstin surmises that Willow's most likely BUFFY RVS character to appear in the finale since Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle Gellar got into a "pissing match" over her potential appearance in the finale. Of course, this could all just be masterfull rumor mill work from Mutant Enemy, too. (Or it could be just a misunderstanding of information.) |
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| Whedon Says 'Keep Writing'- Angel creator and executive producer Joss Whedon, during a Friday call-on interview on KROQ'S "Kevin adn Bacon" radio show, praised fan-led efforts to save The WB's staked vampire series and implored listeners to keep writing, according to a report on the SaveAngel.org web site. "I think all the noise is that's been made by the fans does help," Whedon said."'Because we're talking about different venues for not just Angel but the Buffyverse in general. Spinoffs or TV movies or whatever it is, the more interest that's shown, whether or not show itself, as it is now, gets to come back, that registors with people." Whedon suggested that the show's followers write to "everybody," most especially 20th Century Fox Televison Productions. He added that the show's upcoming finale will provide closure should it truly bring the series to an end, but that it would "leave enough stuff open that, should there be another season, there's plenty more to do." He added, "Our stories aren't [all] told yet, not quite yet." |
| Angel soundtrack planned- Score CD could be on the way soon, says composer. Angel composer Robert J. Kral has revealed that a CD of music from the show is currently being planned. "Jacquie Perryman at 20th Century Fox was behind the idea of an album from the start (several years ago) and, finally, Fox has told us they would like to do an album," Rob revealed to us. "Currently I am reworking some cues [to make them] album length, and fans are able to request musc through Buffydownunder.com, an Australian site that I have frequented a lot." Rob has composed the score for almost 100 episodes of Angel, since the show began five years ago. Whilst the news of a possible CD is great news for Angel fans, we must stress that the project is still at a very early stage, and a formal deal has yet to be finalised. |
| 100 Greatest Musicals- I found out on a website which had a list of 100 greatest musicals that Buffy's musical 'Once More With Feeling' came in at number 13! How 'lucky' is that! Not unlucky at all! Woohoo! |
| 'Angel's' Darla Is 'Long Shot' for Hallmark- LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) -Julie Benz has lost count of the number of times she's died and come back as the vampire Darla since her introduction in the pilot for "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," and her subsequent appaearances on that show and its spin-off, The WB's "Angel". "I think i've died four or five times. The first couple of times, they had a big party for me, and everybody was very sad, but towards the end, it's like, 'Uh, again? She'll be back.' I don't even get a goodbye party anymore. "I'm such a fatalist. Each and every time I died, I thought that was it. I cried on set." As "Angel" heads towards its final goodbye, in its fifth-season finale on May 19, fans can look forward to yet another visit by Darla, in the May 5 episode, called 'The Girl In Question." "It was reunion time again," Benz says, "seeing all the crew and the cast, just hanging out, being there. Part of me is very sad the show's ending, but it had a great run. We were lucky to last this long." To read more and to find out about "Long Shot" click on the heading above. |
| Dark Mirror- Angel and co are in deep trouble when they find themselves confronted by perfect replicas of themselves - enemies who know their every move, their every thought, their every weakness... In his two hundred years or more on Earth, Angel has seen his share of imitators. Some have been kindly, misguided people intrigued by the business of being a private investigator. Others have been not-so-kindly if eqaually misguided people drawn by the lure of the undead unlife. But he's never encountered a true double, until now. Enter Angel the Second. And Fred 2.0. And Wesley Redux. And so on. A steady parade of perfect clones arrive at Angel investigations, none of them looking for help,. They want the original models dead. And if Angel, Lorne and others can't band together to find out where the replicas are coming from and why, a murder spree that starts in their bloody lobby might spread to the entire city. But how do you defeat an opponent who knows your thoughts, battle plans, your darkest fear? How is Angel going to defeat himself? |
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| Alyson's backstage bypass- Unexpected visitor causes concern for Hannigan. Alyson Hannigan loves meeting her audience, but one over-enthusiastic fan discovered that it's always best to make an appointment after an incident at the weekend. According to the Mirror newspaper, an intruder slipped backstage after a performance of Alyson's play. When Harry Met Sally, and tried to get into her dressing room. The 'fan' bypassed security, only to discover that Alyson wasn't actually in there. |
| Buffy/Angel TV Film Possible? The WB has approached Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel creator Joss Whedon about doing at least a movie-of-the-week or two- and possibly as many as six-next season, thanks in large part to a fan campaign organized by Saving Angel, E! Online's Watch With Kirstin column reported. But the columnist added that, despite Herculean efforts by fans to save the canceled vampire show, Angel won't be coming as a regular series, either on the frog network or on UPN or Fox, which has both passed. 'I think a Buffy movie is more likely to happen now," Angel cast member James Marsters (Spike) told the columnist. "And they may be given better budgets, seeing this kind of interest, because there's a feeling that there's a guaranteed audience. So the effort that i've seen, it is in vain." Meanwhile, E!Online reported that The WB executives have decided to review an episode of Fox's canceled fantasy series Wonderfalls along with pilots, which means it is in running for a fall-season pickup. More Information: Angel mini movies? (BBC) First ANGEL Movie May Hit in September (Mediasharx) |
| News from February 18th, 2004 to April 16th,2004. |