Buffy the Vampire Slayer is Officially Over

tstoneman writes "Say it ain't so! Yahoo has an article says how SMG herself confirmed the rumors of the series demise. Even though it is clearly in its twilight, it's still one of the vest best shows on TV. It however points to the fact that a spin-off will emerge, hopefully one that is more successful than Angel."

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Re:The way to continue....

[Snowspinner]

Dushku is already committed to a pilot on a Fox show, making that unlikely.

Re:Buffy who?

[satanami69]

OMG, you must see Old School. She's in hot pink underwear, on a bed laying on her stomache. Best ass shot without any flesh in a long time.

Plus last weeks episode with her in the wifebeater. Oh yeah.

The show is not dead...

[Eggman27]

...it's just resting - I think it'll go for a walk!

To sort of refute the henny-penny doom-mongers and nay-sayers, while SMG's tenure on the show is definitely over, the series is by no means on its last legs. A quick look to one of the many spoiler sites (Spoiler Slayer, Wendy's Spoiler Zone, to name a couple), shows that there are already plans for a spin-off. And while it won't be quite the same without SMG or Eliz Dushku (who has signed on for a Fox pilot for next season), there's still some unexplored territory there.

I realize there are some for "Buffy" is not their cup of tea, but for those who call the show 'bad', I would wager that they haven't seen any of the scores of decent episodes in the series.

Re:How about Willow?

[Piquan]

Ripper was put on hold indefinitely some time ago. A lot of us thought it dead, but it's mostly on hold from what I can tell. Here's something I sent to some friends a while ago:

Regarding the series "Ripper", exploring Giles's past:

It's not dead yet. I found this on the BBC website:

Buffy News 05 August 2002
Head talks film/Ripper

The Scooby Gang prepare to sing Tony Head has revealed yet more on the future of Buffy and Ripper.

"Joss wants to make a movie," Tony told the ET Online website. "I'd love to make a movie. I don't think Sarah does at the moment, but who knows what is going to happen in two years' time. Joss' imagination is so wild, fertile and unstoppable, you know whatever it is going to be is cool."

As for Ripper, Tony suspects it won't now be happening until at least 2003.

"[It's] somewhere down the line. Joss really wants to do it. Jane Espenson has already written one script, and they are talking about putting six scripts together. [With Firefly, Joss] has quite a bit on his plate right now. It suits me because I have a fair amount on mine. I think possibly [it will happen] sometime next year."

To get something more recent, say, 18 November, from Zap2It:

"It's still there, it hasn't gone away... I had lunch with [BBC2 head] Jane Root just before I came back. [I]... couldn't resist the opportunity to say, had she heard anything about 'Ripper' and what were her feelings.

"She said she basically knew as much as I did, which was that Joss is just up against it. With these three balls up in the air [Buffy, Angel and Firefly], there's absolutely no point in throwing another one up there. I guess one would fall, and there's no need for that.

"Ultimately, along the line, everything can find its place and its time and succeed. Jane thinks we're still going to do it. I haven't even bothered to talk to Joss about it. The last he said, he really wants to do it. He's got three or four scripts he's got in progress with Jane Espenson."

I guess I'm jonesing for more Joss these days.

Whedon's "The Fray" is a sequel.

[Sans_A_Cause]

If you haven't seen it, Whedon wrote a comics series for Dark Horse called "The Fray", which was basically a Slayer in the future. Perhaps that could be on tap for a sequel series?