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Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer Returns to Airwaves

Buffy Cast with Joss WhedonJoss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series (1997-2003), starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, returns to American airwaves in January 2010 on MTV’s sister network, Logo.

The re-runs of the well-loved Buffy show will begin with a marathon on New Year’s Day from 6am till 12am ET — a full 18 hours of the cult hit show before it joins the Logo line-up. Episodes will air on weeknights at 6pm & 7pm, and again at 2am & 3am, starting on January 4th.

It will also air on weekend time slots, weekend mornings, and Friday primetime at 9pm & 10pm.

Creator Joss Whedon recently mentioned in an interview with the Chicago Tribune that his newly-canceled series, Dollhouse, would not be shown in re-runs but instead be available on the Hulu website (which is owned by Fox’s parent company, News Corp.) Apparently, his old series is set to be re-run on TV more often than his most recent one.

This may be a positive or negative thing for fans of the classic series. As we mentioned before, the Kuzuis (who own the rights to the Buffy franchise; Whedon sold it to them when he was a virtually unknown writer) plan to relaunch the Buffy universe without any involvement from its original creator. This exposure could either help the plans for the new series or, hopefully, just remind the world of what it was that Joss Whedon actually delivered in his vision of the Buffy universe that made it the classic series it is today.

In the meantime, Joss Whedon, along with a few others who regularly wrote on the show (including Jane Espenson), will continue to tell stories in the original Buffy universe through Dark Horse comics’ “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight” series which picked up exactly where the WB/UPN show ended. Originally planned for only 25 issues, the comics success has prompted Whedon to announce that it will continue into Season Nine.

The Angel spin-off also continued as “Angel: After the Fall” under IDW Publishing, a series written by Brian Lynch with input from Joss Whedon and considered to be a canonical continuation of the TV show. After the 17-issue (4 volumes in trade paperbacks) series ended, the story continued as “Angel: Aftermath”. Although the new Angel comics are written without any further contributions from Whedon, actress Juliet Landau (Drusilla) recently co-wrote a two-issue story about her character with After the Fall writer Brian Lynch. She also made an appearance at the Silver Snail comic and collectibles store in Toronto (Canada) for a signing to promote the story arc. (The Buffy comics, on the other hand, continue to be written by and overseen by Joss Whedon himself.)

Credit: Sitcoms Online

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