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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2610839" data-attributes="member: 11760">There have been plenty of times that Hollywood wanted to go with a more youthful version of a franchise. Attempted adaptations of genre material into mainstream Hollywood projects are rife with such stories.By the time a new Buffyverse TV series were to get on the air, it would be the 2006-2007 TV season, at earliest. More realistically, it'd be a spring 2007 replacement series (just like Buffy was, so long ago) or 2007-2008 TV season show. Three years after Angel went off the air is an eternity in TV land, especially with the huge glut of genre shows on TV this year, thanks to the runaway success of Lost, which looks unlikely to crash and burn this year.While I can certainly see an Angel/Illyria TV movie for, say, Sci-Fi, I don't see executives greenlighting a new series with any sort of real links to a show that aired three or more years ago, and probably on a different network. Network execs aren't in the business of selling someone else's DVDs.More likely, I can see them saying "yes, well, we like the Buffy vibe, and you could certainly have those folks on as guest stars during sweeps, but we'd like to start fresh." Joss' ending to Buffy works brilliantly in this regard, as the possibilities for a world of Potentials becoming Slayers without Watchers or with the help of neuvo Watchers who don't have the support of a world-spanning organization are endless.</blockquote>

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