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Can Angel Rise From
The Dead ...Again?
originally
posted 2-13-04
Ain't
It Cool News reports that the WB has chosen not to renew
Angel for a sixth season. Instead, the network dangles
the hope that Joss Whedon and his capable crew will create
television movies periodically to check in on the Fang Gang.
This statement
has appeared on the WB website:
For
the last seven years Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have
been cornerstones of our network. The sum total of the work
done on those shows has produced some of the proudest moments
in our history. Like some of the great series that are leaving
the air this year, including Frasier and Friends, the cast,
crew, writers and producers of Angel deserve to be able to
wrap up the series in a way befitting a classic television
series and that is why we went to Joss to let him know that
this would be the last year of the series on The WB. We have
discussed continuing the Angel legacy with special movie events
next year, which is still on the table. In a perfect world,
all of these details would be completed before this information
went to the press so that we could be definitive about the
show's ongoing future. But in any case, we did not want to
contemplate this being the last year of Angel without giving
the show the option of crafting their own destiny for this
character and for this series. David Boreanaz continues to
be one of the finest, classiest and friendliest actors we
have had the pleasure to work with and we hope that the relationship
furthers from here. The same can be said for all the actors
and producers on the show.
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While
it might be satisfying to let Joss take a shot at some telefilms,
this news comes as a bit of a shock -- especially appearing
on the same page as a headline celebrating the show's 100th
episode. But that's network thinking for you.
Particularly
surprising is the consensus that the show had actually been
doing better, reinvigorated by the premise tinkering which
had placed the vampire champion in charge of the series' longest-running
nemesis, the legal firm of Wolfram & Hart.
So what
will the production team do? Try to bring back Sarah Michelle
Gellar for a huge send-off? Accept the offer of telefilms?
Or just flip the WB a big bird and see what else is out there
for them? We'll try to stay on top of it.
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