This was posted on Save Angel on 12/26.  Hope you can join us.

Save Angel is very pleased to announce that Blackout author Keith R.A.
DeCandido will be joining us for a live Q & A on Saturday January 20th
to discuss his book. Below is the book description:
THE DARK IS COMING. . . .

New York City in 1977 is vampire heaven. Serial killer Son of Sam is
often blamed for their hits, and a citywide blackout gives them free
reign of the streets, allowing them to get away with murder. Spike and
his beloved Drusilla are in the Big Apple taking advantage of the
situation, as is Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood, who has hunkered down with
her son, Robin, in a Times Square apartment where she thinks they'll
be safe.

But no matter where she goes, Nikki has to watch her back. Spike has
only one thing on his mind: to slay a slayer. Adding to Spike's list
of challenges is a corrupt local vampire community that catches wind
of his presence, and when they start messing with him, things get
bloody interesting.

Spike. Nikki Wood. New York City in 1977. It doesn't get much more
exciting than that. Read this terrific book and spend some time with
our special guest as he answers your questions.

The Q & A will start at 3:00 PM EST (8:00 PM GMT)

Visit DeCandido.net: http://sff.net/people/krad//

Please sign a new petition started by Save Angel member LStevens that
will be sent to Fox.  She will then print the petition and mail it.
In other words, she'll be doing the work.  All we have to do is write
a short message about why we want to see the return of the
Buffy/Angelverse.  Let's get to it.

http://www.petitiononline.com/nfa5pp08/petition.html

A thread has been started on Save Angel for submitting questions to
Keith R.A. DeCandido for the 1/20 live Q & A.

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6375&st=0&#entry60290

Hope you can join us!

Save Angel is very pleased to announce that Blackout author Keith R.A.
DeCandido will be joining us for a live Q & A on Saturday January 20th
to discuss his book. Below is the book description:

THE DARK IS COMING. . . .

New York City in 1977 is vampire heaven. Serial killer Son of Sam is
often blamed for their hits, and a citywide blackout gives them free
reign of the streets, allowing them to get away with murder. Spike and
his beloved Drusilla are in the Big Apple taking advantage of the
situation, as is Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood, who has hunkered down with
her son, Robin, in a Times Square apartment where she thinks they'll
be safe.

But no matter where she goes, Nikki has to watch her back. Spike has
only one thing on his mind: to slay a slayer. Adding to Spike's list
of challenges is a corrupt local vampire community that catches wind
of his presence, and when they start messing with him, things get
bloody interesting.

Spike. Nikki Wood. New York City in 1977. It doesn't get much more
exciting than that. Read this terrific book and spend some time with
our special guest as he answers your questions.

The Q & A will start at 3:00 PM EST (8:00 PM GMT)

Visit DeCandido.net: http://sff.net/people/krad//

From MaidenGreen:

Have a Favorite TV Show? Come in and Chat! Save Angel Chats!

Starting in Januray 2007 Saveangel.org will be hosting a series of
chats on our favorite TV shows a few times a month.  Everyone is
welcome! We will meet in the chatroom, discuss the show designated
for that night, have some fun, and enjoy the comraderie! We'll even
have Buffy and Angel nights, where we'll talk about certain seasons,
episodes, or discs (Like disc 1 of BTVS S5, etc.)!

The first new Bones of 2007 will air on Wednesday January 24th at 8pm.
Our first chat will be about episode 2.12 " The Man in the Cell" on
Thursday January 25th at 10PM EST/7PM PST/8PM MT/9PM CT.  Mark Your
Calendars, then log in to the home page, click on the Chat Room and
come on in and join us!

Other series that have been suggested as chat night possibilities are:
Lost
Veronic Mars
Heroes

Any other suggestions for chat topics, add them to the thread located
in the Television Section and we'll figure out a schedule and post the
days, times, and topics!  Come Join Us!

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6323

If you plan on contributing to the message books that we will be
sending to Joss Whedon and 20th Century Fox, please do so by December
14th.

To contribute to the message book to 20th Century Fox, visit the
Raising the Stakes forum:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5960

To contibute to the message book to Joss, visit the Raising the Bar forum:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=21&t=6140&st=0

Remember, to participate there are no postcards to print or stamps to
buy.  All you have to do is care a lot and write a little.

From MaidenGreen:

Hello Buffy/Angelverse Fans!

Well, it's been a while since I started a thread with those words! :)
We have some extremely exciting news for all our devotes site members!

deathknight_3 has provided a connection whereby we can get a Memory
Book into Joss' very hands. Through a familial connection, it looks as
though Dan Ackroyd will take a look at the Press Book and a Memory
Book filled with letters from YOU Guys and - providing he is satisfied
there are no obscenities or anything else inappropriate - will then
see that the books get into Joss Whedon's very hands.

For those of you who want to know what was in the original Press
Prospectus, check out point #1 at:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5243

Isn't that something?

So what we need from all of you is a letter asking Joss to spearhead
an Angel Feature Film.

Universal Studios has stated they were pleased with the way Serenity
performed on screen, and Joss shouldn't have to duel with FOX to get
the rights to Angel and his gang or to get them on the small screen.
Maybe we'll even see some Buffyverse characters in the film! And such
a venture would be a nice way to say farewell to the Angel/Buffyverse.

Time is of the essence. We want to get this book to Joss within a very
short period of time, so write your letters as soon as possible and
post them here. Be respectful, don't use foul language, don't berate
The WB or FOX. Simply tell Joss how much you loved Angel, and how much
you would love to see the aftermath of the backalley fight AND his
vision for the much-missed ATS S6 in a feature film.

Please be swift with your offerings, and we'll get the book to him
within the next month or so.

Thank you SOOO much to everyone for your enduring loyalty to this
site, to all your hard work on past campaigns, and for continuing to
share your Angel/Buffy love with all of us here. The Whedonverse was a
truly rich world, and we are fortunate to have been visitors there for
however brief a time.

Write your message in this thread:
  http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=6140&st=0&#entry59451
located in the Raising the Bar Forum

From gman:

The FX Network is known for taking chances on such edgy shows as The
Shield, Nip/Tuck, and Rescue Me. That makes it a natural as our next
target for the Spike the Volume Campaign.

Write to both:

Mr. John Landgraf
President & General Manager
FX Network
PO Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213-0900

and

Mr. Chuck Saftler
Senior VP of Programming & Acquisitions
FX Network
PO Box 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90213-0900

If you wish to send an e-mail to FX, the e-mail address is
user@...


If you plan on writing a message in the booklet that we'll be sending
to 20th Century Fox in support of tv and/or dvd movies, please do so
by November 4th.  It could be as little as one or two paragraphs in
support of Joss, Spike, Willow, Faith or any other character you'd
like to see again. After 12 great seasons of Buffy and Angel it
shouldn't be difficult to write a positive message as to why you want
to see more Whedon again.  And if it is difficult, do it anyway. :)

Here is that thread:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5960

Save Angel News Letter
Volume 4 Issue 6

Editorial

Here we are, at the start of another lackluster TV season, full of
grim resignation at the offerings before us. Now, that is not to say
that there is nothing to look forward to.  Lost, Bones, Eureka and
Battlestar Galactica still will grace the airwaves.......but don't you
miss Joss?

Isn't his incisive wit absent from such heavy-handed programs such as
the current Survivor upmty zillion: Race Wars? We are facing more
seasons of mean-spirited TV.  Simon Crowel's Cruel Insults To Wanna Be
Singers, and the EVER POPULAR Let's Eat Things That Give us
Unspeakable Diseases For Cash Show.

Of course, who would want to be left out of the season premiere of
Bachelor: Rich Guys Who Will Be On The Show But Actually Not Marry Anyone?

"Yes, yes," you are saying. "Heard it all before."

Would you like to know why you are being ignored? Would you like to
know what you can do?

The truth is there has been a subtle change at the advertising level.
The Big networks would love for you to over look the very significant
news that THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY ADVERTISERS ARE NOT
SIGNING UP WITH SHOWS. THEY ARE WAITING TO INVEST THEIR MONEY.

Why? Because the TV industry has lost it's grip on the pulse of the TV
watching public. People are staying away in droves from shows like
those described above and advertisers can not afford to spend their
dollars on a public that doesn't 1) see their ad 2) crave their
product because they saw their ad.

They have placed ads with proven winners like Supernatural,
Smallville, Lost, Criminal Minds, Bones, Eureka and others. The time
is ripe for us to make a difference. Despite the passage of time,
Saveangel.org is still focusing attention on reviving our favorite
shows in some form.

Right now, we are putting together a book to send to 20th Century Fox
Television. This book will contain letters that you will write and
post in the thread (supplied further down). The letters will then be
printed out and bound in a book and sent to 20th Century Fox
Television executives. The letters are asked to be upbeat
reminiscences about what the shows have meant to you. Feel Free to
plug Buffy, Angel or Firefly or all three if you like.

What Do We Expect This To Accomplish?

We want them to remember the good times when their programs were
critically acclaimed. When Emmy Nominations were something they had a
chance of winning. We want to remind them that there is still interest
and money to be made in the Jossverse Franchise.

[URL=http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5960&st=10&#entry59001]h\
ttp://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?s...=10&#entry59001[/URL]

This is the URL you need in order to participate in this campaign.
Please. Take 5 minutes and return to the site by clicking on the url
and add your voices to ours as we continue to campaign for those
things we'd all like to see returned to the air.


Take A Letter, Cordelia:


From gman:

Our next target in the Spike the Volume campaign is the Sci-Fi
Channel.  Sci-Fi is the home of original series such as Battlestar
Galactica, Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka and original TV
movies and miniseries. Let them know how much you would like to see
Joss Whedon-produced movies about Spike and other Buffy/Angel characters.

Write to:

Ms. Bonnie Hammer, President
NBC Universal/Sci-Fi Channel
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112

and

Mark Stern
Executive VP Original Programming
NBC Universal/Sci-Fi Channel
100 Universal City Plaza
Building 1440, 14th Floor
Universal City, CA 91608

mark.stern@...

Site News:

Contest!

From MaidenGreen:

Hi, everyone!
On behalf of saveangel.org, I'm announcing our first - at least first
as far as I can remember - site contest!  And to be eligible to enter,
all you have to do is be a site member!  Cool, huh?

[b]Contest:[/b]
[b][color=blue]Write an episode/short story featuring Illyria.[/color][/b]
As the newest member of the Fang Gang, Illyria was a character in need
of fleshing out.  The WB's stupid decision to cancel ATS effectively
ended our chance to see what Illyria might have become and where her
character would have gone in season 6.  Now, we're asking for
[b]your[/b] creative ideas on what her first adventure, post-alley
fight, might have been.

[b]Contest Parameters:[/b]
[b]1[/b]. Write an episode/story about Illyria, but include the ATS
cast members.  Use some of these ATS episodes as examples:
[b]Cordelia-centric episodes[/b] [i]Rm w/ a vu[/i], [i]That Vision
Thing[/i], or [i]Birthday[/i],
[b]Gunn-centric[/b] [i]War Zone[/i], [i]That Old Gang of Mine[/i],
[i]Double or Nothing[/i],
[b]Wesley-centric[/b] [i]Guise Will Be Guise[/i], [i]Billy[/i], or
[i]Lineage[/i],
[b]Fred-centric[/b] [i]Supersymmetry[/i], [i]A Hole in the World[/i],
[i]Shells[/i],
[b]Lorne-centric[/b] [i]Happy Aniversary[/i], [i]Life of the Party[/i]
[b]Connor-centric[/b] [i]A New World[/i], [i]Habeas Corpses[/i],
[b]Spike-centric[/b] [i]Just Rewards[/i], [i]Hell Bound[/i]

You get the idea.  The rest of the cast are involved, but the central
thrust of the story is character-centric!

[b]2[/b]. The episode/short story shouldn't be too long, so don't
write a book.   :lol:  (Take a look at Endorill's fan fiction.  They
are written as episodes, so you'll get a good idea of the length.)

[b]3[/b].  Try to keep your character's actions and speech true to the
series.  Spike isn't Wesley, though they're both English, so there are
things Spike would say that Wesley wouldn't.  We all know these
characters so well, but make sure you aren't having Angel act
un-Angel-like, or Fred, un-Fred-like.  And try to keep the major
parameters set forth by Joss and the ATS writers.  For example: Angel
is the team leader, Wesley the brains and chief researcher, Gunn the
fighter, etc.  Illyria?  Well, that's for [b]you[/b] to decide how her
character would evolve and change.

[b]4[/b]. Try and complete your sentences and use Spell Check, so we
go with the flow and not become confused by unknowable words because
of spelling.  We want to understand and enjoy every sentence and word
of your creation!

[b]5[/b]. All [b]completed[/b] entries need to be placed in the fan
fiction forum of this site by [b]December 1st[/b], and should contain
the words [b]Contest Entry[/b] in the [i]Topic Description[/i] space
under your title.  That gives you nearly 3 months to complete your
work of fiction!  (After your completed story is posted, you will be
able to edit your work up until December 1st, when the post will be
locked.)

[b]6[/b]. Winners will be determined partially by your fellow board
members, and finally by the staff of saveangel.org.

[b]7[/b]. [color=red][b]The winner will recieve an Angel Season 5
action figure![/b][/color]

This contest is just for fun, not for publication and won't be graded,
so enjoy yourselves and have fun creating something about the series
we all loved!  Every entry will be treated with respect by the board
members (pay attention, everyone) and [b]derogatory or snide comments
will not be tolerated[/b].  We want everyone to create something, so
share your thoughts about Illyria and enjoy yourselves!

[SIZE=7][b]So, let the creating begin![/b][/SIZE]

There is some great new fiction out there:

Go Ask Malice

Robert Joseph Levy's Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary is now available
on Amazon.com. I just ordered it and as you all can imagine, very
excited.

For a description from the site:

[URL=http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5857]http://www.saveange\
l.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5857[/URL]

Afterimage

Pierce Askegren's novel is set in the Buffyverse before Angel becomes
Angelus. Classic Buffy!

For the full description:
[URL=http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5895]http://www.saveange\
l.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5895[/URL]

Blackout
By Keith R.A. Decandido

Ever wonder what really happened in N.Y.C. in 1977? Beside the awful
dance of death with Slayer Nicki Wood, Spike discovers other fun and
games in the Big Apple (that equates with temptation, right?)

Read more:

[URL=http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5998]http://www.saveange\
l.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5998[/URL]

Comics

Release: September 27, 2006
Stan Lee Meets Spider-Man
Written by: Stan Lee & Joss Whedon
Art : Olivier Coipel & Michael Gaydos
Price: $3.99

Astonishing X-Men #17
Writer: Joss Whedon
Artist/Cover artist: John Cassaday
Colors: Laura Martin
Letters: Chris Eliopoulos
Editor: Mike Marts
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $2.99 US/$3.75 CAN

Spike : Asylum
Penned by Brian Lynch for IDW Publishing
New Comic Miniseries about our beloved Captain Peroxide.

Lorne's Lounge
News Of The Actors in Other Roles

For those of you that didn't know it, Camden Toy (Ubervamp, Gnarl,
Prince Of Lies and a Gentleman [from HUSH] BTVS and Angel, The Series)
is also a film editor.

He has just finished ZEN NOIR. It has been picked up for a theatrical
release. It has won quite a few prizes, including BEST FEATURE
Moondance Film Festival, BEST FEATURE, DC Independent Film Festival,
AUDIENCE AWARD BEST FEATURE
Rhode Island Film Festival, JURY AWRD Honorable Mention Film Fest New
Haven,
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Ashland Ind. Film Feastival and BEST ACTRESS
Indifest, Chicago.

It has a limited release schedule so check out www.zenmovie.com for
the trailer and list of theaters.

STANDOFF, Fox Network's new show about FBI negotiators, had a
vengeance face in a recent episode. In addition to the beautiful Gina
Torres (Firefly, Angel), the show gave us a glimpse of Kali Rocha,
another BTVS favorite. She played Halfrek, Anyanka's vengeance demon
buddy.


Fan Fiction

From Scott (Buffyverse Forever):

Over in the Fan Fiction Zone, we're proud to announce the first
contestant in our Fan Fiction contest -sturgispodmoore's "Rebirth"-a
look at a possible future for Illyria. And maybe for someone else
whose future seemed to be all too past... But there's still plenty of
room for more entries! For further details,check out the Contest for
SaveAngel Site Members thread in Site News and Info!

Also in the Fan Fiction Zone, we're proud to announce the latest
installment of MaidenGreen's epic "Three Wishes". Angel and Spike find
themselves face-to-face with the awesome Antimaus-a foe who may well
be capable of defeating both of them! But it really doesn't matter
because neither Champion can fight any more! Meanwhile, Lorne goes on
a strange mystic journey to save Wes from a danger Wes is totally
unaware of-and the only way he can do it may hurt Wes more than the
danger itself ever could!


We are also proud to announce the latest episode of Endorill's Season
Seven "The Scarlet Art". Angel and crew battle a new foe with ties to
one of history's greatest villains-and to the gods themselves! Even
the Fang Gang may be unable to overcome this deadly foe-unless an old
friend can help...

And, hey,why not contribute a story yourself, either for the contest
or just for fun? Angel needs to keep adventuring-otherwise he just
sits and broods. Help keep Angel brood-free and contribute a story today!

Book Signing:

Meet author Christopher Golden on Saturday October 7th at Pandemonium
Books & Games in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He will be signing books
along with fellow authors Jeffrey Carver, Craig Shaw Gardner, and
Thomas Sniegoski.  Golden's book Ghosts of Albion: Witchery (which he
co-write with Amber Benson) has just been published by Del Rey books.
Pandemonium Books & Games is located at 4 Pleasant Street in
Cambridge.  The phone number is 617-547-3721.  The signings will take
place from 7-9 PM.  Here is a link to the site:
[URL=http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com]http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com[/URL].
Visit Chris's website at
[URL=http://www.christophergolden.com]http://www.christophergolden.com[/URL].

From MaidenGreen:

Hello, site members and fellow BTVS/ATS lovers!

Well, the '06-'07 television season is the third without any Whedon on
our screens, and I'm having serious withdrawal. You? BTVS and ATS DVDs
are my life-blood, but something new would be even better. ;)

So, how are we going to convince Twentieth Century Fox to get off
their collective butts and give us some Whedon? We're going to send
Twentieth Century Fox Presidents Gary Newman and Dana Walden some
reasons why they should. The "reasons" will come in the form a book
filled with letters from YOU, the people who watch TV and buy DVDs,
the fans who make or break shows!

To that end, we would like you guys to write a letter to FOX, stating
why you loved BTVS and ATS, and why you would like to see more of
these wonderful characters, either in a new television series, or
straight-to-DVD movies. Fox needs to deal with Joss and work towards
an agreement that would give the fans what they want; more
Whedon-verse character stories!

So how about it? Start writing your letters and post them here. We'll
print them, bind them together, and send them to the higher-ups at Fox!

Let's get cracking!

Go to forum thread in Spin-off area via copying and pasting:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5960&st=0

From gman:

Next week ushers in beginning of the CW Network. Let the new network
hear from the most loyal viewers the WB and UPN ever had and that the
CW can have. Joss and Buffy helped put the WB on the map. Joss and
characters like Spike, Illyria, Willow, Faith, and Giles and their
many fans can help make the CW more successful than the WB and UPN
ever were.

Write to:

Dawn Ostroff
President of Entertainment
The CW
11800 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Be positive. We recommend that you write a letter. If not, send a
postcard. If you don't do either send an e-mail to
Dawn_Ostroff@... (which still works). If you still need to see
more of Joss Whedon on tv (and you wouldn't be here if you didn't)
then don't wait for the next person to write. Do your part and
convince others to do their's.

Spike the Volume during the next week by writing to another national
tv columnist, USA Today's Robert Bianco, and the tv columnist for your
local newspaper. Let them know that while the networks are advertising
lineups featuring many shows that will not succeed, you are
disappointed that it looks like another season is going to go by
without a Joss Whedon-produced movie on the air or straight to DVD
production. Let them know how much you and many others would like to
see Spike and other favorites again.

Write to:

Mr. Robert Bianco
USA Today
7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22108-0605

The Save Angel Newsletter

Volume 4 Issue 5

Editor: Endorill

Assistant Editor: rbottnlv52



Take A Letter, Cordelia...

A message from Scott (Buffyverse Forever):

All right, it's what you've all been waiting for! It's time for the
next installment in the campaign to get us that Spike
tv/straight-to-DVD movie that we all so desperately want to see!

As you'll remember, Joss is more than ready to give us what we want.
The only problem is that he has been unable to persuade the studio to
do its part. We've already written to Twentieth Century Fox, but we're
going to need allies to accomplish our goal.  The first people who
we'll be writing to to ask their help will be two distinguished
writers for TV Guide - Michael Ausiello and Matt Roush.

Write to:

Mr. Michael Ausiello
T.V. Guide
1211 Avenue of the Americas
4th Floor
New York, NY 10036

and


Mr. Matt Roush
T.V. Guide
Box 500
Radnor, PA 19088-0500


Remember, if possible, send handwritten letters. The more effort that
a letter has had put into it, the more likely it is to impress them!
And don't just stop with writing to them yourself, get everybody you
know who's a Whedon fan - family,friends, enemies, people who are
totally apathetic to you - to write in!  You can even print up letters
for them if you'd like! The more mail they get, the better!

Now, let's get to work people! Angel may get to slay the dragon, but
we're the ones who've got the really important job! Let's show them
Whedon fans are truly a force to be reckoned with!

(If you would rather send postcards you can download them from this
thread:

[URL=http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5785&st=0&#entry58045]ht\
tp://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?s...t=0&#entry58045[/URL]

or send a pm to gman with your e-mail address. He has them formatted
in a Word document.)


Wesley's Archives
Media Mentions Of The Shows

Since not a week goes by, that some mention of the show doesn't appear
in the media, we have to wonder why the studio execs have not figured
it out. We want more! So while you are sitting down to fill out your
post cards take a gander at some of the recent mentions of Joss and
the gang:

Superman/Batman #26 - Joss Whedon and 25 other writers banded together
to write a tribute to young Sam Loeb, son of comic writer Jeph Loeb.
Sam passed away, a year ago at age 17. He was writing a story for the
comic. Pat Lee was slated to do the art for the issue. Sadly. Sam died
before this could be finished. I cried just reading the story by
Jerome Maida at Philly.com. I also called my comic store to reserve an
issue.

Reviews of Spike TV's " Blade" referred to the fact that like "Buffy"
and "Angel", the new series had plenty of gore and violence without
the "requisite sense of humor to soften the blow." I found the show
kind of bland. I will continue to watch it in hopes it will improve.
Review: Bangor Daily News and others.



Lorne's Lounge
Actors in Other Roles

On June 3, 2006 SciFi channel aired Crow 4: Wicked Prayer. I wanted to
see it before I added it to my video collection. (I support the actors
by buying their films, too.) But golleeeee, this one is going on the
shelf next to Wrong Turn with Eliza Dushku. Wrong Turn, by the way was
my new 'low' for loyalty. My husband said it all. "Wow, if it wasn't
for David, I wouldn't waste 2 minutes on this." My feeling is that the
actors did their best, the writing was just not all that hot. So,
writers, PLEASE no Crow 5, ok? This Murder of Crows is played out.

Much, much better was Voodoo Moon, shown on the same night and
starring Charisma Carpenter. The knowledge and use of voodoo was a
little sketchy, but over all, very good. I'll buy this one to add to
the Watch Again Collection.

Our Lady of Visions (Charisma) missed the signs and portents when she
"Flirted With Danger" on the Lifetime channel on June 27th. It will be
rebroadcast. Next time, Cordy, guys who act to good to be true, ARE
too good to be true. We thought you learned that lesson.



Fan Fiction

Over in the Fan Fiction Zone, welcome a new author as The Black Thorn
begins Season 1 of an all new Spike series!

Over in LuvSab's "Way of the World", things aren't going so well for
the Fang Gang after "Don't Fade Away". Can their new friend LaShey help?

Thrill to "Presence" the newest episode of Endorill's Season Seven.
When Angel and company find themselves battling a formidable demon,
they soon realize that the only way they can beat the demon is with
the aid of an old friend. The problem is that this old friend happens
to be quite dead...

Be sure to check out the newest installments in Maiden Green's epic
"Three Wishes". Spike and Illyria encounter a strange new opponent,
Wesley faces the ultimate temptation , and the entire Fang Gang faces
their strangest problem yet-an unexpected run of good luck! And in the
shadows, an even greater danger lurks-one caused by one of the Fang
Gang themselves!

Don't miss any of these epic adventures! And, hey, if you've got an
idea for a Fan Fic yourself, why not post it in the Fan Fiction Zone?
Help show the world that Angel's adventures have only just begun...


The Toy Shelf

All those who bought the Angel puppet with the Vampire Face, should be
getting theirs the middle of June. Let us know what you think. I found
a nice sword for my Battle Damage Angel puppet. (Though the folks in
the knife shop looked at me strangely when I whipped out the puppet
for size.)

He looks very cool in my office, guarding my computer from the cats.
What have you bought lately? Let us know and we'll happily print your
review.

News of Alternate Galaxies

Trekkies, save your pennies! Over 4,000 props, set pieces, and
spaceship models from CBS Paramount's studio archives are going up for
auction on Oct. 5-7 2006. The New York Daily News reports that
Christie's has been selected to handle the auction.

There are still some Serenity props available at www.propstore.com.
Expensive, but oh so cool. They recently sold Lorne's Magic 8 ball. I
was outbid. Sniff.

Serenity Day moved DVD sales of the movie and Firefly series sales
higher on the Amazon list of notable sales.

Browncoats were called to buy the "Serenity" DVD in order to show
Universal that "Serenity" has a following.
1. The Amazon.com DVD-rank on May 29th:
"Serenity" #29
"Firefly" #40
The Amazon.com DVD-rank now:
"Firefly" #3
"Serenity" #4
"Serenity" was even #2 yesterday !
At Amazon.co.uk:
"Serenity" is #29 right now, it topped on June 23rd at #8!

Serenityday.org - By Webmaster -

Should we do an Angel day?

From wizarduniverse.com:

Joss Whedon: “There are certain characters I’ve been saving because I
thought I might make movies about them, but that doesn’t look like
it’s going to happen…I think money is standing in the way. What is
ever in the way? What ever makes anything happen or not happen?”

Support Spike is encouraging Whedon fans to send postcards to
Twentieth Century Fox on or about June 20th for arrival on Joss’s
birthday, June 23rd to support the return of the the Whedonverse via a
Spike Movie/DVD.

We encourage all of you to write to Twentieth Century Fox (which
produced Buffy and Angel). They want to be shown the money. That means
we need to show them the numbers. Not past ratings or DVD sales, but
numbers that point to future success. Our numbers.

We know that there are many of us.  Now we have to let them know.
Joss is doing his part.  Let's do our's.

Write to:

Dana Walden & Gary Newman
Twentieth Century Fox Television
10201 West Pico Blvd
Building 88, Room 30
Los Angeles, CA 90035

But don’t just stop there. If you know Whedon fans that are not
planning to write, print the postcards for them. Buy the stamps if you
have to. If everyone in your family is a Whedon fan, everyone in the
family should write.

View and download some great postcard art:

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tp://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?s...t=0&#entry58045[/URL]

We don’t get to decide whether we see Spike and some of our other
favorite characters back in a tv movie or dvd. It’s up to us to decide
how much noise we want to make. It's time to Spike the Volume!

The Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 4
Editors: Endorill and rbottnlv52

Editorial: I was watching late night tv the other evening and I
caught a couple of guys from the TV Guide channel talking about the
new CW and what it might mean to the future of television. I was
struck by their assessment of the WB. They said that the WB started
out great but then they dropped BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, (and to be
honest, they mentioned other shows as well). The biggest fear in TV
is to really alienate an audience demographic, and that's what
they've done.

Now, I am going to be honest here. I have no clue who these guys
were, but it is the TV Guide segment with the street signs like on a
corner. They didn't mention dropping ANGEL as one of the big mistakes
that the WB made, I got to wondering why that was.

On every ANGEL site out here, in the Big Blue, there are thousands
that are screaming that they want more Joss Whedon vampires and spin
offs and movies. So why don't they know that in "STUDIO EXECUTIVE
LAND"?

They should know. We have given you guys campaigns and postcards to
download. There have been addresses given for letter writing and DVD
receipts to send in. Candy, flowers, cookies to send to soften them
up. We've sent out Publicity kits with action figures. Their
ignorance just doesn't add up.

Unless.......

I am beginning to think that maybe some are not doing their bit. I
bought and sent 100 postcards last year. I mailed an additional 20
DVD receipts. I am not looking for back pats. I am here to tell you
that my hundred is not worth anything unless you and ten of your
friends also send at least 5 each.

You have to print a few newsletters and leave them laying around the
comic shop or the public library or maybe even a college campus.

We still have a chance to get a made for tv or straight-to-DVD Spike
movie. We are beginning that campaign. Let's decide now, that this
outraged, alienated demographic is going to roar!

We are beginning our campaign for a Spike movie. We hope those of you
who follow fan clubs centering on James Marsters will join us. But if
you don't want to write a letter or fill out a post card, will you at
least print this newsletter and leave it in a place where others may
find it who DO want to join in the roar"?

I want to let the WB know: "You promised us a movie, and we don't
care who you merged with. If you don't make good on your promise, we
are going to show you the 'off button'."

So? Who wants to enlist? This is WAR!

Take A Letter, Cordelia

It's hard to believe that it's been almost two years since we last
saw Angel and the Whedonverse on television. Since then, Joss Whedon
and Tim Minear have talked about producing a tv or straight-to-DVD
movie centered around Spike. Even WB executive, David Janollari, has
expressed an interest in a Spike movie.

But statements about a Spike movie are few and far in between. They
seem more like whispers than anything else.

Well, it's time we let people know how much we like Spike and some of
our other favorite characters and how badly we want to see their
return. Because whispers are not enough, it's time to Spike the
Volume!

Let's show Joss our support and let him know how badly we want this.

Write to:

Joss Whedon
c/o Chris Harbert
Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA. 90212-1825

Here are some postcards:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?s...opic=5013&st=10

Wesley's Archives
News mentions

Serenity makes history for Universal
http://www.saveangel.org/index.php?ind=new...w_single&ide=76

It also sells some mighty expensive momentos check out:
http:www.propstore.com

They handle Angel and Buffy Props as well. Recently Lorne's magic
eight ball from season 4 sold for astronomical amounts. When it got
to $300.00, I dropped out. But some good stuff is still out there.


Lorne's Lounge
News Of The Actors in Other Places

Details for the event extravaganza (and ticket buying information)
James Marsters and Friends are out. Check it out:

http://www.jamesmarsters.com

All the backstage secrets of new movie Shadow Puppets will be
revealed at James Marsters & Friends.

Joining James for the weekend will be film favourite Tony Todd and
director Michael Winnick. They worked with James on new movie Shadow
Puppets and will be talking for the first time about the movie and
what happened behind-the-scenes.

Tony Todd is best known for his chilling performance as the Candyman
and has also appeared in movie classics like The Rock, The Crow,
Night Of The Living Dead, Final Destination and the multiple Academy
Award-winning Oliver Stone film Platoon.

Like James, Tony has appeared on Angel, Andromeda and Smallville. A
sought after actor in the sci-fi and fantasy genre, Tony has appeared
in episodes of cult favorites The X-Files, Stargate SG-1, 24,
Hercules, Babylon 5, Charmed, Xena - Warrior Princess, CSI: Miami and
MacGyver.

The 6'5" tall movie star also has the distinction of playing
characters on all three of the sequel Star Trek TV series Star Trek:
The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek:
Voyager.

Michael Winnick wrote and directed Shadow Puppets. The thriller tells
the story of eight strangers who find themselves trapped, with no
memories, fighting for survival against the unknown.

Gold tickets for James Marsters & Friends are selling fast and are
allocated on a first come, first served basis. For ticket sales go to
jamesmarsters.com

Gold ticket holders are entitled to entry to all the weekend talks,
screenings and Q&As. They also receive a photograph with and
autograph from James, entry to the Saturday night acoustic concert
with James, seated dinner on Saturday night, a chance to win spot
prizes and purchase autographs and photographs with guests over the
weekend ... plus lots more.

MORE STAR GUESTS FOR JAMES & FRIENDS WILL BE REVEALED SOON


Our Sweet Summer Glau will be featured in a Sci-Fi original
production, Mammouth. It is on April 22nd and will be broadcast at
9:00 p.m. EST.

click:http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=559


The new Illyria comic is out. Check out a review at:
http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5572

Spike vs. Dracula is also out and it was super! I finally know why
Drac owes Spike money. Buy one! And before you leave the comic shop,
ask if you can leave a copy of this newsletter.

Chiwetel Ejiofor, best known as the Operative in Serenity, is in the
new British comedy "Kinky Boots". In it he plays Lola, a Soho drag
queen who inspires Charlie, a bussinessman in charge of a failing
shoe company, to start designing women's boots for men in order to
keep his failing shoe company afloat. "Kinky Boots" is out now in
theaters across the US. For local listings check:
http://movies.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=24288


Fan Fiction
Over in the Fan Fiction Zone, welcome a new author as Kingsplatt
begins a new post-series finale story. After the battle in the
alley,our heroes urgently need to regroup. The problem is that it
doesn't look like the bad guys are going to let them get the chance...

Luvsab's "The Way Of the World" continues as our heroes and their new
ally,the mysterious LaShey,desperately seek sanctuary as the Senior
Partners continue their assault on the Fang Gang. But,even if they
find sanctuary,after everything that's happened,can the Fang Gang
still work as a team?

MaidenGreen begins a new saga entitled "Three Wishes". Get in on the
ground floor as Angel begins a new life...err,unlife....following the
events of MaidenGreen's "Full Circle" epic. Thrill as Angel fights
evil on a whole new more intense than ever level! Meanwhile, Nina
does a loving and unselfish good deed...that may wind up causing the
Fang Gang more trouble than the worst demon ever could!

Endorill continues her Seventh Season saga with " Romanian Rhapsody".
The Fang Gang develops a whole new method of evil fighting-house
breaking! And just where are they planning on breaking into? The
castle of Count Dracula....

Check out all these fine stories and,hey,why not contribute one of
your own? Angel just hangs around street corners and broods when he
has nothing to do and nobody wants that....


Book Corner: New author of vampire novels starring The Black Dagger
Brotherhood, Jr Ward has Eternal Lover on the bookstands. Her first
book, Dark Lover, has been nominated for the Sapphire Award.

Yes

Posted by Andrea on SaveAngel.org:

It's time to let your mouse do the talking!

Fox TV DVD are asking, "Now we've brought back Family Guy for another
series, which of these would you like to see resurrected for another
series?"

Options are:

Buffy
Angel
Futurama
Tru Calling
Dark Angel

Vote: http://www.foxtvdvd.co.uk/

Neither Angel nor Buffy is coming back as a TV series, of course, but
let's put the spotlight back on the 'verse by helping Angel win. It
could only help in bringing back our favorite characters for tv or
direct-to-DVD movies.

The Save Angel Newsletter
Editors: Endorill and rbottnlv52

Editorial:

Sometimes you just have to take a minute to evaluate the mission.
There are plenty of people out there in cyberspace who will tell you
that it is over. They will try to persuade you that the mission was
over when "Not Fade Away" was broadcast.

It's not true. The mission doesn't end until our favorite characters
return. We want our Big Screen Angel movie. We were promised some
movies on the WB. All around the studios and back lots they are
singing the same old sad song: things change. Whatever spin they put
on their record, the facts don't change. We are still here. We aren't
going to go away. That's not changing.

We are still a forum for everyone in the Jossverse that wants more
Firefly/Angel/Buffy as part of our weekly TV diet. It's true that the
TV Powers That Be would like to ignore us; that they'd like to brush
us under the rug. Why? It's because we annoy them. We keep them from
moving blissfully on. We remind them that our power to tune in or out
isn't a foregone conclusion. It's our power and they have to coax us
to participate.

When we band together and write letters or send postcards, call or
e-mail we exercise that choice. We tell them they are failing us. We
remind them that they went back on promises to us and worst of all, we
remind them that they can't succeed with out us.

Some of them are holding out, relying on immature audience gags and
kneejerk, train wreck fascination to keep us coming back for more. Our
campaigns remind them that their audience is growing up, maturing and
becoming increasingly demanding.

Come back to the site. Bring a friend. Read the transcripts of the
Amber Benson/Christopher Golden and Camden Toy chats. Check out the
news of your favorite actors and actresses and their present roles,
all in one place. Learn about books and products, but most of all,
look at the campaigns. Decide, do you want to do more than complain?
Do you want to be a force for good in TV programing?

We aren't going away until we get what we want.


Site News:

We would like to thank Amber Benson, Christopher Golden, and Camden
Toy for graciously taking the time to chat live on our site. As was
expected, they were fabulous.

Amber and Chris joined us on February 24 to discuss their recent
novel, Ghosts of Albion: Accursed, their past work, and their future
projects. Read the chat transcript here:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5427

Camden was our guest on March 11 and discussed amoung other things,
his favorite Buffy/Angel character and episode and his upcoming
movies. He was a true gentleman. (No pun intended.) Read that chat
transcript here:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5480


Wesley's Archives
The Actors and Shows In the Media:

Amy Acker,former ANGEL star and current ALIAS bad girl will be
adding an appearance on HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER to her small screen
credits. She will be reunited with former ANGEL regular Alexis Denisof
and Buffy/ Angelverse star Alyson Hannigan. She will appear in the
season finale. The show has recently been renewed.


Lorne's Lounge
News Of The Actors In Other Roles:

Michelle Trachtenberg in remake Of Black Christmas
http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?s...t=0&#entry56736

Keep a close on SEEING STARS. It is one of the small mini shows that
TV GUIDE CHANNEL uses to enliven your search for decent TV to watch.
They are airing a hilarious bit BONES. Two average people are
hypnotized into believing they are starring as Seeley Booth and
Temperance Brennan. Having been told that live passerbys have been
done to death in unusual ways, the victims of this prank postualte
death by cabbage patch doll as well as other nutty methods of execution.

Nathan Fillion Stars In White Noise 2: The Light. Filming has begun.
http://www.saveangel.org/index.php?ind=new...w_single&ide=51


Other Places and Campaigns:

The Whedonverse Multimedia Project has launched it's Youthful 'Verse
Campaign, which provides youth organizations with young adult
materials such as comic books. Check it out here:

http://www.whedonverse.org/news/2006/03/co...ch-program.html


Conventions:

Wizard World Los Angeles (March 17-19)

Charisma Carpenter, Clare Kramer, Stephanie Romanov, Andy Hallet,
Christian Kane, and Elizabeth Rohm will be appearing.

Website: http://www.wizarduniverse.com/conventions/la/guests.cfm

Collectormania9 (April 28-May 1)

Julie Benz (Buffy & Angel) Alan Tudyk (Firefly)and Ron Glass (Firefly)
will be appearing plus many others.

Fan Fiction Update:

Over in the Fan Fiction Zone, we welcome a new author - our own
luvsab! Check out her new post-Fifth Season story "The Way of the
World". After the events of Season Five, Angel is a wreck, both
mentally and physically. Which is just what the forces of evil have
been waiting to hear...

MaidenGreen's epic "Full Circle" draws near it's end as our team
battles the forces of the Senior Partners, and Angel nears his
ultimate destiny. But will Angelus ruin that destiny for our hero?

And don't forget to check out the latest installment of Endorill's
Season 7, "Trolls". In this episode, Buffy begins a whole new life
while Angel and Spike battle a bizarre new adversary...

And, hey, why not submit a story yourself? Angel needs something to
keep himself busy while we work....

As mentioned previously, Camden Toy has graciously accepted our
invitation to join us for a live Q & A. The official date and time is
Saturday March 11 at 6:00 PM EST/5:00 PM CST/4:00 PM MST/3:00 PST in
North America. For our members in the U.K. the starting time would be
11:00 PM. In Australia, the Q & A would take place on Sunday morning
March 12 (for example, it would start at 9:00 AM in Sydney).

Camden is best known for portraying one of the lead gentleman in
"Hush," Gnarl in "Same Time, Same Place," a recurring role as a
Turok-Han (or Ubervamp) in season seven of Buffy, and the Prince of
Lies in "Why We Fight" on Angel.

Visit http://www.camdentoy.com to read Camden's bio, check his
appearance schedule, view his gallery of photos, and browse his store.

We hope you can join us and bring friends, too. :)

The transcript of the February 24 Amber Benson and Christopher Golden
chat has been posted on SaveAngel.org.  Below is a link to the thread.
Enjoy!

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5427

As previously announced, we are very pleased and excited that Amber
Benson and Christopher Golden are tentatively scheduled to join us for
a live Q & A session on Friday 2/24 at 7:00 PM EST/6:00 PM CST/4:00 PM
PST in North America. For those members in the U.K., the chat will
start at 12:00 AM on Saturday. In Australia, the session will begin on
Saturday morning. For example, in Sydney, the start time will be 9:00 AM.

Due to there being two guests, the format of this session will differ
from that of our last chat in September. Our guests and the two
moderators will be the only people in the chatroom with the ability to
post. We think this is the best way to make the session less confusing
for our guests and members.

Please submit a question that you would like to ask either Chris or
Amber (or both simultaneously) in this thread:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=5380&st=0&#entry56225

It should be a lot of fun. We hope you can make it.

We're very pleased to announce that Amber Benson and Christopher
Golden are tentatively scheduled to appear on SaveAngel.org for a live
Q & A regarding their new book Ghosts of Albion: Accursed on Friday
February 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern North American Time.

For some background on the Ghosts of Albion story visit:

http://www.ghostsofalbion.net/

Check your local bookstores and Amazon.com to puchase the book.

The authors, of course, are no strangers to Whedon fans. Amber Benson
is best known for her portrayal of Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Bram Stoker Award-winning Christopher Golden has authored and
co-authored many books set in the Buffyverse. Click here to view a
list of these compiled by Kate:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1848

Visit Christopher's website at: http://www.christophergolden.com/

DUE TO THE UNPREDICTABLE NATURE OF SCHEDULING IN THE ENTERTAINMENT
INDUSTRY, THE Q & A IS TENTATIVE RIGHT UP UNTIL FEBRUARY 24TH. THERE
WILL ALSO BE SPOILERS DISCUSSED.

So don't delay and get your copy. Trust me, you'll be glad you did.

Details will be forthcoming.

Don't forget to register for the chatroom. Visit
http://www.saveangel.org/chat/

The Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 4 Issue 1
Editor: Endorill
Assistant Editor: rbottnlv52


Hi Everyone! Has your New Year gotten off to a great start? I hope
you saved a resolution or two for our site. We plan to continue our
urging (some say harrassment) of the studios in pursuit of an Angel
movie while continuing to lend our support to all of it's past actors
and actresses as they appear in other roles.

We want to also give you the rumors and news of all the other
projects in the Jossverse.


Take A Letter, Cordelia

A message from MaidenGreen:

Thank you so much, luvsab, for the great idea to sack Joss with
Valentine Love!

So we're going to do it!

Every one of you is responsible for sending Joss some Valentine love!
It's wonderful when the site does something for the campaign, but
it's also fun when we each get to send something! Make sure you
identify yourself, and say you're from SaveAngel.org! We need them to
know we're still here and still fighting!

We'd also like to send some love to David as we move into the finale
of this incarnation of the Angel Movie Campaign! We don't want our
brooding vampire to forget he's got loyal fans who want him in an
Angel movie on that big screen!

But if you do nothing else, send the Valentines to Joss! He's the
mover and shaker, he's the one who must push forward more Whedon on
the small screen, a Spike or Illyria or Ripper, etc. DVD releases or
tele-movies, and he's the one who must push for an Angel movie! We
will campaign the studios, but Joss must write the script!

So Joss it the #1 target! If you have a few more bucks, then send
some love to David as well!

Here are the sites to order your chocolates from. We've got angels,
Celtic crosses, Irish Claddah rings, bats, and even a People Bone for
David!


Large Bat Lolly
minimum order: 6 pc. for $8.40
http://www.chocolatevault.com/halloween.htm

Celtic Cross Favor
$1.70 @
minimum order: 6 pc. for $10.00
http://www.chocolatevault.com/celtic.htm

Celtic Cross Lolly Flavor
$1.40 @
minimum order: 6 pc for $8.40
http://www.chocolatevault.com/celtic.htm

Irish Claddah Ring
1/3 of the way down the page
2 pk $1.30
minimum order: 6 pk ofr $7.80
http://www.chocolatevault.com/favors.htm

Large Angel with Golden Wings
$3.50 each
Angel Lollipop with Golden Wings
$3.00 each
http://www.chocolatefantasies.com/celestial.htm

Celtic Cross
Celtic Cross Lollipop
$3.00 each
http://www.chocolatefantasies.com/religious.htm

Bats
Bat Lollipop
$2.50 each
http://www.chocolatefantasies.com/halloween.htm

People Bone
$7.00 each
http://www.chocolatefantasies.com/animals.htm


Addresses:

Joss Whedon
c/o Mr. Chris Harbert
Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA. 90212-1825

David Boreanaz
c/o Ms.Tracy Brennan
Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA. 90212-1825

Thank you, and have a Valentine ball! We thank you for supporting
Save Angel and the Raising the Stakes Campaign as well as ALL Whedon
ventures past and future!


Wesley's Archives
News Of The Jossverse in other Media

David Boreanaz- BONES- New Night and Time!

On January 25th The FOX hit, BONES will move to Weds. nights at 9:00
EST.

Up against Lost, Criminal Minds and Veronica Mars, fans of the show
are worrying about it's longevity. How long can it last against the
competition? Has FOX decided to deep six this production intensive
show? Viewers be loyal! You can tape that other stuff and watch it
later! David needs you! Follow him back to his old night and old
timeslot.( For those of you with memory problems, ANGEL aired on
Weds. night at 9:00 EST.)

Joss Whedon - No more plans for "Angel" Comics
From Newsarama.com - By Webmaster - 2006-01-10

NRAMA: Any plans to have Joss Whedon more involved with future Angel
releases?

CR: No plans, but it's something I'd certainly love. Joss seems a bit
busy with a few movies in the works, and even on the comic side, with
Astonishing X-Men and a Buffy miniseries for Dark Horse in 2007. I
think we've done a great job with Angel and Spike thus far (and so
must he, since he and his production company, Mutant Enemy, have
approved everything before we've done it), but I'm like any fan who'd
love to see him handle his characters once more, with feeling.

NRAMA: Ahh... let's see if any Buffy fans get the last bit.

Anyway, as the New Year unfolds, can you tell us in broad strokes any
new initiatives or points IDW is gunning for in 2006?

CR: I'd say further diversifying our line, and offering a good split
between licensed books and new titles, is still our primary goal.
We're exploring some ways to help expand the way comics are presented
to the world.

For those of you who worship the Jossman in all his incarnations,
there are a few Serenity Props and Costumes available at :
www.propstore.com. Based in London, this group has a wonderful
reputation and can be bought from with out fear.



Lorne's Lounge
News OF The Actors and Actresses In Other Roles

Michelle Trachtenberg - "Black Christmas" Movie (2006) - Details
From Darkhorizons.com - By Garth Franklin - 2006-01-16

Trachtenberg Has A "Black Christmas"

Former "Buffy" co-star turned "Ice Princess" and "Eurotrip" actress
Michelle Trachtenberg is set to topline horror remake "Black
Christmas" reports Production Weekly.

The story follows a killer who terrorizes a sorority house with phone
calls before he begins to murder the various sisters of the house
during the annual Christmas holiday break.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Katie Cassidy and Oliver Hudson have also
joined the cast of the project which Glen Morgan is directing.
Production is set begin late January in Vancouver.

Julie Benz - "Supernatural" TV Series - Appearance on January 17th,
2006
From Whedon.info - By Webmaster - 2006-01-15


Supernatural

WB Jan 17 09:00pm Add to My Calendar

Series/Drama, 60 Mins.

"Faith" Episode #110.

While battling a demon, Dean is electrocuted, resulting in permanent
damage to his heart and leaving him with only a couple of months to
live.

Cast: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Julie Benz.

Director(s): Allan Kroeker.

Producer(s): Eric Kripke, Robert Singer.

Writer(s): Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker.

Original Airdate: January 17, 2006.

This aired last Tues and Julie was GREAT! Catch it in reruns if you
must, but catch it.

James Marsters Coming back to SMALLVILLE

Brainiac is coming back, and he's looking to enlist an unwitting Lex
Luthor in making the world kneel before Zod.

James Marsters is set to reprise his role as Dr. Milton Fine, the
alter ego of supervillain Brainiac, on "Smallville" later this
season. He heads a lineup of guest stars on The WB that also
includes "Desperate Housewives" star James Denton, Nick Lachey and
Kelly Carlson of "Nip/Tuck."

Marsters will make his return to "Smallville" in an episode
called "Hypnotic," scheduled to air in the spring. In it, he'll try
to use Lex's (Michael Rosenbaum) fixation on the spaceship as a way
to free General Zod from the Forbidden Zone (the general's two
cohorts made an appearance in this season's premiere).


Fan Fiction On Site

Meanwhile, over in the Fan Fiction Zone, Endorill's Season 6
continues with Episode 20-The Devil's Doorstep. Angel and Company
travel to England to team with Buffy and her crew to battle the
threat of an awakening army of Old Ones! That is assuming Illyria and
Buffy don't kill each other first....

Over In Maiden Green's Full Circle, the combined forces of the Fang
Gang and the Scooby Gang seem powerless against the fiend called
Cain! Maybe what they need is a little Faith....

Check both stories out and,hey,why not contribute something of your
own? The Fan Fiction Zone is always looking for new contributions....


More site news:

Download your SaveAngel.org calendar. Print it and get the word out
about the Campaign while showing off some great art. See the thread
below:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?s...t=0&#entry55752

It's easy, it's free, and it's your's.

Special thanks to Angeldiva (Maria), Slayerhusband (David) and Kadian
(Alicia).

The Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 16
Editor: Endorill


From MaidenGreen:

Hello all you die-hard Angel fans!

Still with us? Still here? Still the faithful even after all this time?
TERRIFIC!

Have you been writing Christmas cards to friends and family? How about
taking a break from penning all those greeting and send a postcard and
Christmas greetings to our newest target for an Angel feature film?

We Can Do This!

The Farscape Fans got their Mini-Series...

The Firefly Fans got their Movie...

Angel Fans need their chance to shine!

We Want An Angel Feature Film!

And good news for those of you who thought Serenity was a dump on the
big screen... Well, Suncoast nearly ran out of their DVD pre-order
allotment for this terrific movie. So Whedon's little space western
with a no-name cast did pretty well! And Angel Will Do Better! It has
a bigger following, and terrific fans who'll fight for their show!

So let keep the momentum going and Write Those Postcards.
Send Joss a Christmas Greeting as well, reminding him we're waiting
for him to bring out beloved Angel characters to the Big Screen!

Newest Angel Movie Target:

New Line Cinema
Robert Shaye, Co-Chairman/CEO
Michael Lynne, Co-Chairman/CEO
888 - 7th Ave.
New York, NY 10106

Joss Whedon
c/o Chris Harbert
Creative Artists Agency
9830 Wilshire Blvd
Beverly Hills, CA. 90212-1825


Action Alert from Gman:

Well, the big day is here. The Serenity DVD is finally available and
at the right time. It is, after all, it is the season of giving. So go
out and grab a copy or two (or three) and give them as holiday
presents to all your loved ones that appreciate great movies, give
yourself a treat, and give Joss a boost.

And if you can give a little more of your time, send postcards with
either receipts or UPC codes attached to them to:

Stacey Snider - Chairman
Ron Meyer - President and COO
NBC Universal Studios
100 Universal City Plaza
Universal City, CA 91608

Here is a link to some terrific postcard art:

http://www.saveangel.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4449

Let's make the holidays a little happier for all things Joss!

Take A Letter, Cordelia.

We wish you Happy Holidays, not because we repudiate Christmas, but
because we know not everyone celebrates Christmas. Some folks
celebrate Channukah, Kwanzaa, or Winter Solstice. Some folks do not
celebrate anything at all. My wishes for you are not limited by some
date, but prompted by what I think about at Christmas, which I
celebrate, including all the ways people are alike. I remember how
frequently our needs mesh and overlap and I stop myself and remind
myself to be a little kinder, a little more understanding, and to
listen more and talk less.
So I want to wish you a satisfying peace of mind, a heart with joy
overflowing and hands willing to help the less fortunate. Because that
is what ANGEL was about, Helping The Helpless. So be somebody's Angel,
Christmas or otherwise, and take this week to make a small difference
in someone else's life.

Wesley's Archives

Anybody see the Ready Set Change segments on The TV Guide channel?
They featured a change for an ANGEL style bedroom and a Beaver
Cleaver-style kitchen for the redo. They did a pretty could job. I was
kind of bemused that the show was doing it's bit to bring Art Deco to
the masses. Hurray for Joss Whedon, arbitrator of fashion.



Joss Whedon - "Serenity" Movie - Thestar.com Interview
From Thestar.com - By Rob Salem - 12-19-2005

The Serenity cycle continues with DVD

"There was a line that was cut out of the pilot of the show," recalls
Joss Whedon with all due irony: "Once you're in Serenity, you never
leave. You just learn to live there."

Whedon and his crewmates - and their legions of dedicated, die-hard
fans - have been living in Serenity since early 2002. Even when there
was no "Serenity" to live in.

And now it has all somehow come full circle. The TV show, Firefly,
abruptly cancelled halfway through its first season, did well enough
in fan-generated DVD sales to inspire its resurrection as the feature
film Serenity. After a healthy, if not yet entirely profitable
theatrical run, it arrives tomorrow on DVD.

And after that, who knows? A sequel? Another series?

"It would depend on huge numbers from the DVD," writer/director Whedon
allows. "Obviously, we are still shy of making our money back from the
box office. But we are within shouting distance. Still, it would have
to blow up pretty huge for a sequel to be called for.

"Mind you, stranger things have happened. And they do seem to happen
to me. So it's not like I'm shutting the door."

This is not a man who gives up easily. Particularly when it comes to
this particular world, an Eastern-accented sci-fi Western set in a
dystopian post-war near-future, centered on a ragged band of mercenary
space pirates, led by the taciturn (if slightly quippy) battle-scarred
veteran, Mal Reynolds, as portrayed by Calgary-born Nathan Fillion.

"I'm never satisfied," Whedon confesses. "I do feel some closure. But
closure doesn't mean closing the book, on those characters, on those
actors, on that universe. I always want more. I am a rabid fan. And
so, while I'm happy to lay down my arms for a while, if somebody said,
`Pick 'em up, let's do more!' I wouldn't hesitate."

Whedon is not Firefly's only rabid fan - nor is it his only TV
creation to generate this level of fannish devotion. Almost three
years after its cancellation (and two after its spin-off, Angel),
acolytes of Whedon's cult-hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer still clamour
for a sequel series, a movie or, as is most commonly rumoured, series
of TV movies.

"Unfortunately," laughs Whedon, "they're still just rumours. But I am
trying to turn them into something else. And so that, hopefully, will
be the thing ... and if not, then, unfortunately, it's just me talking."

Still, even in this rarified environment, there is something
distinctly different about the respective after-the-fact affection for
Firefly and Buffy.

Firefly fans had the rug pulled from under them after barely a dozen
episodes had aired. Buffy buffs could at least look back on a
cumulative run of (including Angel) 254.

"They got seven seasons (of Buffy)," acknowledges Whedon. "That's as
many as we had in us. But (Firefly fans) had everything taken away
from them."

Commensurate with those feelings of loss and outrage comes a certain
odd sense of righteous entitlement. More than merely wanting, or even
just deserving a full-on Serenity movie, the Firefly fans feel they
actually earned it.

And Whedon enthusiastically agrees. "They really did struggle to make
this happen. I owe them a huge debt, not, you know, of money.... It's
easy to forget that, or overplay it, or to start to sound facetious.
But they really did mobilize and that really does matter."

For Whedon himself, the Serenity film has proven an ideal transitional
vehicle from television to features, though he had toiled for many
years as a film writer (from the original Buffy movie to Toy Story to
the sequel Alien: Resurrection), Serenity would be the first time he
would direct for the big screen.

Not that he's planning on giving up TV. "Never," he insists. "I love,
love, love television. I love it in a way that I don't love film.
They're two completely separate and different entities. And just
because I'm getting a crack at doing what I've wanted to do for a long
while, i.e. my whole life, doesn't mean that I have passed television by.

"It wasn't a stepping stone. Or if it was, it radically stopped being
one when I realized exactly how out there and daring and delightful
and extraordinary things can be on television."

Still, he won't deny that he's enjoying the luxury of the larger
palette. "In a way," he admits, "the stakes are higher. The scripts
are longer. But at the same time, it's pretty much the same process.
It really is. `Did I find the moment?' `How do I hit them?' `Where do
I jab that they're not protecting?' "

Most significantly, in genre circles, he's been hitting and jabbing at
his computer keyboard, finishing up his long-anticipated script for
the Wonder Woman feature he will also direct.

But first, this last bit of "old" business, getting out the Serenity
DVD. Unlike Whedon's often-reticent participation on earlier DVD
commentary tracks, this one has him tripping over his own tongue in an
effort to try and cram everything in.

"The movie," he says, "was three years in the making. So I had a lot
to say."

He has also, he admits, somewhat warmed to the form. "I go back and
forth ... I get very nervous and sometimes I worry that I am going to
be the most boring man alive. But now that I am a little more at ease
with the process, I do kind of enjoy it. I do like showing `behind the
curtain' a little bit."

Particularly in this case: the Serenity DVD's bonus extras contain
several tasty nuggets for the faithful, including, perhaps, a hint of
who he may have in mind for the tiara and bullet-bouncing bracelets of
his Amazon Princess.

There is a point during his commentary track on the movie's deleted
scenes that he refers to cutting back the role of Inara, portrayed by
Morena Baccarin. "But I'll be making that up to her soon," he
cryptically allows on the disc.

Baccarin is one of the names most bandied about as a favoured Wonder
Woman candidate.

But Whedon isn't talking now. "You know," he chuckles, "making up for
something and casting her as Wonder Woman are not exactly the same thing.

"But you know what? Honestly, I don't even think about it. Morena is
spectacularly lovely and very talented, and has a lot of the qualities
I'm looking for. But I'm writing a character now who does not exist in
a physical body. So until that script is finished and I start looking
for that physical body, I won't even have an opinion on the subject."

One wonders if the current project is Goner, a subject that has been
whispered about here and there.


No Serenity novels this summer
From Fireflyfans.net - By Webmaster - 12-18-2005

From Buffyverse Forever, Fan Fiction Moderator:

Over in the Fan Fiction Zone, Endorill begins a new chapter in her
saga as we learn how everybody's favorite bleach blonde vampire spends
this holiday season. And you just know that Spike spends the holidays
quietly meditating and spreading Christmas joy wherever he
goes...Yeah, right laugh.gif Get in on the ground floor for all the
excitement!

Plus, more installments in MaidenGreen's "Full Circle." Angel is up
against his deadliest foe ever and he needs all the help he can get!
Unfortunately, that may not be enough...

From Gman:

Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan were reunited on the November
30 episode of Veronica Mars.

This is an opportunity to let UPN know via e-mail how much you enjoyed
seeing these Buffy regulars on VM. You could also mention that you
would like to see more Buffy and Angel regulars on UPN in a Joss
Whedon-produced Buffy/Angel spin-off.

Go to www.upn.com and click on "Contact Us" to send an e-mail to UPN.
It's quick and it's free. A great combination (like Charisma & Alyson.

If you missed tonight's episode, check to see if UPN rebroadcasts
Veronica Mars in your market. In the New York/New Jersey area the
Wednesday episode is rebroadcast on Sunday at 7:00 PM. Alyson and
Charisma were terrific together and are not to be missed.

The Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 15

Editor: Endorill

A message from MaidenGreen:

Well, Angel fans...

Let me ask you these questions - Do you want an Angel Feature Film? Is
this something you would go to the theaters to see? Is this something
you are willing to put some effort into making happen?

We here at saveangel.org are not asking for a day, we're not asking
for an afternoon, we're not even asking for an hour...

We're asking for 5 minutes out of your week to download a colorful
picture, adhere it to a postcard, and send it to the current Film
Campaign target.

And just as those who weren't Faith fans supported the Faith Spin-off
Campaign, and those who weren't Firefly fans hopefully supported
Serenity by going to the theater, and those who aren't Spike fans will
support the upcoming Spike movie campaign, we're asking all Whedon
fans to throw your time and support behind the Angel Feature Film
Campaign!

We all want more Whedon in some form or other. Supporting the Angel
Feature Film Campaign will reunite the ATS S5 Fang Gang on the big
screen. In case you've forgotten, this includes: Angel, Wesley, Gunn,
Lorne, Illyria, and Spike! This film might also include some BTVS
alum. It will have something for everybody!

So is 5 minutes really too much to ask to see these great characters
reunited on the big screen? Lets unite together as Angel fans and show
how much we want this film to happen. We Will Not Be Forgotten!

Our Next Studio Target is:

Michael Lynton, Chairman-COO
Amy Pascal, ViceChairman - Motion Picture Group
Sony Pictures
10202 W. Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA. 90232

If you'd like to send a Fax, here's the number:
310-244-2626

Go to the graphics section on this site, choose your favorite Angel
Movie picture, download it and send it! Or just take your favorite
notecard, write a little something, and send that! Write something on
a napkins, for gods sake!:0) Just send something! We can do this!


Action Alert:

Joss Whedon guest-starred on the November 11th episode of Veronica
Mars. Let's let UPN know how much we enjoyed seeing him on that
episode and how much more we would enjoy seeing him produce an
Angel/Buffy spin-off series on UPN. Go to www.upn.com and click on
"Contact Us" to send an e-mail to UPN. It's that easy.


Take A Letter Cordelia:

A message from Gman:

Ever since Angel was cancelled and fans began campaigning, I've been
amazed how many good ideas and strategies have been suggested by fans
of the Whedonverse. Soon it will be two years since that awful
announcement was made by the WB and and our members are still being
creative with their wonderful suggestions. It's important that the
ideas never stop coming.

It's also important that people participate when a campaign strategy
is decided upon. Good ideas alone are not going to help bring our
favorite characters back. When there's a call to action, please
remember that it's not meant for someone else. If we want to be heard,
we're going to have to be loud. We can only be loud if many of us
participate. Let's give it our best shot.

Wesley's Archives


News Of The Whedonverse inThe Media

Buffy voted third greatest fantasy hero of all time
From Scotsman.com - By Webmaster - 2005-10-31

Potter is the ultimate fantasy hero.

Harry Potter has been voted the greatest fantasy hero of all time.

The schoolboy wizard, whose latest film Harry Potter And The Goblet of
Fire has its world premiere this Sunday, was the runaway favourite in
a poll of film fans.

Darth Vader was named the greatest villain.

The Sci Fi channel asked 1,500 moviegoers to name the best fantasy and
sci-fi heroes.

The cyborg star of Terminator 2, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, came
second. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was third, followed by Spiderman.
Doctor Who, the big winner at last week's National Television Awards,
came fifth.

Star Wars characters Han Solo and Yoda made the top 10 - but there was
no place for Luke Skywalker.

Neo from The Matrix, Star Trek's Commander Spock and Batman completed
the list.

In the villains poll, Darth Vader came top followed by the monster
from the Alien films and The Borg from Star Trek. The Daleks were
fourth, ahead of The Joker from the Batman films and Arnie's first
outing as the Terminator.

The Sci Fi channel commissioned the poll to mark its 10th birthday on
Tuesday.

A spokesman said: "It's great that a home-grown icon has been voted
the greatest hero. To give film fans their ultimate showdown, JK
Rowling needs to pit her boy wizard against Darth Vader."


Firefly hits number #1... on DVD in Australia
From Jbhifionline.com.au - By Webmaster - 2005-10-31

Top Selling DVD Home

1. Firefly (Season 1) (Box Set)
2. Batman Begins (Exclusive Slipcase)
3. The Longest Yard
4. Team America: World Police (Special Ed)
5. Dirty Dancing (15th Anniversary Ed)
6. Ghostbusters (Ultimate Coll Pack)
7. Kingdom of Heaven (Deluxe Ed)
8. Scrubs (Season 2) (Box Set)
9. Finding Nemo
10. Back To the Future

This Just In:
Sci Fi Wire Polls

Question: Aside from James Marsters as Spike, who(from the Jossverse)
would
you like to see in their own DVD?

Answers:
David Boreanaz as Angel 21%
Nicholas Brendon as Xander 7%
Alyson Hannigan as Willow 22%
Eliza Dushku as Faith 32%
Anthony Head as Giles 18%

Total votes: 1,278

Geez, we have more peole than that on just our roster! We need advance
notice of these polls!

Breaking News:

tv.guide.com poll asked:

"Now thw the series Firefly has hit the big screen with "SERENITY", we
asked you which series should become a movie next. In order here are
your picks.

1 Alias
2 Buffy The Vampire Slayer
3 Angel

It is apparent to Endorill that not only can't you stop the signal,
you better not flaunt the fans! We are loyal and the messages about
the Jossverse ARE getting out there.


Lorne's Lounge
Actors in Other Roles

What stars of the Buffy/Angelverse are you currently enjoying in other
roles? Joss Whedon was a guest star on the November 11 episode of
VERONICA MARS. David Boreanaz returned in BONES on November 1. Fox has
only broadcast two episodes before the League Championship Series and
World Series interfered.) Are you watching BONES or VERONICA MARS?

David Boreanaz - No Bones about it: this show's clicking.
From Canada.com - By Alex Strachan - 2005-10-31

Emily Deschanel stars as Dr. Temperance Brennan in Bones, the new
crime drama on Global and FOX.

Bones returns on Fox and Global Tuesday at 8 p.m. Check local listings
for times and availability.

"Writers lives are not that interesting," Hart Hanson says, though
judging from all the evidence, the Parksville, B.C.-born TV writer and
executive producer is leading an all-too-interesting life these days.

His new series, Bones, based on the novels of Quebec forensic
anthropologist and bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns Tuesday to
the Fox network (Global in Canada), after a brief hiatus caused by the
baseball playoffs.

When it does, the forensic thriller featuring Emily Deschanel as a
headstrong anthropologist and David Boreanaz as her equally headstrong
partner-in-crime-solving, will resume its position as one of the fall
season's early success stories with an average 8 million viewers a
week, a full-season order of episodes and, unusually for a first-year
series, audience growth in its third week over the first two.

The numbers, while gratifying, are not what drives Hanson.

The one-time staff writer for Joan of Arcadia and Judging Amy who once
peddled stories to the University of Victoria's Malahat Review �
Hanson's 1988 novel, The Last Gypsy Summer, won the National Norma
Epstein Award � is having one of those click moments, when everything
seems to be coming together.

Hanson initially shied away from Bones � the last thing he wanted, he
told his producer partner Barry Josephson, was to write a procedural
thriller � but it soon became evident that this was going to be more
of a character study than a straight howdunit.

It's about looking at what the case means to the people who are
working on it, and not just how the case is going to unfold and how
they're going to catch the bad guy," Hanson said. "I told them. 'You
don't want me to do a forensic show, because I have no interest in
those straight procedural shows.' I told them I wanted it to have a
certain level of humour. It has to be funny once in a while. And they
said, 'No, no, we know your work, we want to incorporate that.'

"And I kept waiting for them to have lied � right up until the point
where we were shooting the third episode. I kept waiting for them to
say, 'No, no, you have to do it like CSI,' and that moment never came."

"My feeling is that, in grossly simplistic terms, if it's not a third
to a half about the character, then I'm going to get bored and I'm no
longer going to do it. So far, luckily � and largely thanks to House �
that idea has been embraced."

Bones's cast � Deschanel, Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin and Eric Millegan
� gelled mere days into production. And the stories, with their
emphasis on bone fragments and forensic anthropology, are sufficiently
unique to separate Bones from the horde of similarly themed crime series.

Reichs, who divides her time between writing novels and her dual
duties for North Carolina's medical examiner's office and Montreal's
Laboratoire des Sciences Judicaires et de Medecine Legale (she is also
a professor of anthropology at the University of North
Carolina-Charlotte) has given Bones � and Hanson � her seal of
approval, and is now acting in a consulting role.

"She's off being a very best-selling author," Hanson said, laughing.
"I gather she's doing less and less forensic work, and she's becoming
quite the media figure. She's a good storyteller. Her books are doing
very, very well. We all have time-management issues. Which one are you
going to pick � poking around dead bodies or writing books? She does
read the scripts, and offers comments as much as she can at the time.
She's not uninvolved in the show; she's just not here with us, on the
lot, in the offices."

Hanson remains proud of Traders, the homegrown drama he helped produce
for several years in Toronto before trying his hand in Hollywood.

"At first blush, so many ideas are bad, and then they go on forever,"
Hanson said. "Traders was just a real challenge. To make a financial
institution interesting from week to week, without turning it into
straight soap opera, is a challenge, and I don't care what anyone
says. It's a challenge."

Hanson is aware of the irony of two Canadians � and two former
producers of Traders � holding down the fort for the Fox network on
Tuesday nights.

David Shore, a close friend of Hanson's from Toronto, created House
and is that program's executive producer and head writer.

"I said to David, thank you for getting us on the schedule. Because
his show proved you can mix procedural and character, which is what
mine is. He got that genre up on the screen, and then made it a hit.
I've never been so happy to see anyone get an Emmy in my life. He's
worked so very hard, and he's the heart and soul of that show. It is
funny, though. All the Canadians down here tend to know who we are."

New books:

Nancy Holder, a recent Chat Guest on saveangel.org, has a new
anthology out that she edited along with Nancy Kilpatrick. It is
entitled Outsiders: 22 All-New Stories From The Edge. My copy hasn't
arrived yet, so I can't give you my review yet. But I promise, it will
follow. Here is a description from Amazon.com:

"In this knockout anthology, today's most important writers of
speculative fiction cruise the abnormal elements of society and find a
new wave of underground disorder, poignant horror, dirty kisses, and
necessary anarchy.

Including never-before published stories by:

Neil Gaiman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Kathe Koja, David J. Schow, Bentley
Little, Poppy Z. Brite, Joe R. Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Melanie Tem,
Tanith Lee, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Lea Silhol, Freda Warrington,
Elizabeth Massie, Brett Alexander Savory, Katherine Ramsland, Yvonne
Navarro, Thomas S. Roche, Michael Marano, John Shirley, Brian Hodge,
and Elizabeth Engstrom

...all at their most brilliant and most outrageous.

Here are dangerous games between lovers, howls from the dark, voyeurs
and their victims, disturbed wishes and bitter dreams. Unflinching,
uncommon, and underground, these tales vibrate with new life."

Says Nancy on Outsiders, "I hope that you will all enjoy the
anthology. We worked hard to get the cream of the crop and we
certainly did. We're grateful to all our wonderful authors, who gave
us their best."

Reading Angel: The TV Spin-off With A Soul (edited by Stacey Abbott).
This book is a collection of essays about Angel. From the back cover:
"Reading Angel looks at the cinematic aesthetics of Angel, it's music,
editing and mise-en-scene. It investigates the show's shifting
portrayal of masculinity, its strong noir Los Angeles setting, and its
demonization of racial difference. It examines the impact and
influence of comedy, the superhero and horror on Angel, and would not
be complete without considering corporate and global evil in the form
of Wolfram & Hart. These themes and more are addressed in this
critical tribute to Angel for its followers and fans, by writers who
are drawn together by their fascination with the vampire with a soul. "

This book is bigger than Five Seasons of Angel and according to Gman,
is similar in tone to the Buffy books edited by Rhonda Wilcox and
David Lavery. Speaking of which...

Rhonda Wilcox's Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
has just been published.

Here is a description from Amazon.com: "Rhonda Wilcox is the world's
foremost authority on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its characters, and
its themes. Wilcox argues that Buffy is enduring as art by exploring
its excellence in both long-term story arc construction and in
producing individual episodes that are powerful on their own. She
examines the larger patterns that extend through all seven seasons:
the hero myth, imagery of light, naming symbolism, Buffy's
relationship with Spike, sex, and redemption. Wilcox also focuses on
acclaimed and noteworthy episodes, including the musical "Once More,
with Feeling," the largely silent and wordless "Hush," and the dream
episode "Restless." She examines Buffy's literary narrative,
symbolism, visual imagery, and sound. Combining great intelligence and
wit, written for fans, this is the worthy companion to the show that
has claimed and kept the minds and hearts of watchers worldwide."

Joss Whedon will be guest-starring on the November 9th episode of
Veronica Mars. Let UPN know how much you enjoyed seeing him on that
episode and how much more you would enjoy seeing him produce an
Angel/Buffy spin-off series on UPN. Go to www.upn.com and click on
"Contact Us" to send an e-mail to UPN. It's that easy.

Save Angel Newsletter
Volume 3 Issue 14
Editor: Endorill

Hello, all Intrepid Angel Fans!

Are you here to work? Or just for the food? (OK, metaphorical food!)

Serenity has been a mild success at the box office, a terrific
achievement for a film with absolutely no well-know stars appearing.
Therefore we need to make our desires for an Angel film - with a
larger fanbase - known!

Universal Studios is the power behind the Serenity film, and the
Phase 3 target for an Angel feature film. We'd like to ask every one
of you to hit them with a postcard one more time as well as write our
new target. We want them to know that we helped make Serenity a
success, and we'll be there for Angel: The Motion Picture!

Remember the Power of One!
The Power of One Postcard, One Letter, One Call, One Voice = Hundreds
of fans making their voices heard!

Do you know what you want? Let the studios HEAR you! We want ANGEL!

Phase 4 Target:

Tom Freston, CoPresident and Co-COO
Brad Grey, Chairman and COO
Paramount Studios
5555 Melrose Avenue
Hollywood, CA. 90038

The campaign needs everyone! Don't assume others will do your part.
Everyone's voice is important, everyone's voice is needed and we'll
get what we want!


A message from Gman:

James Marsters will be on the 10/20 episode of Smallville. He will
appear as Milton Fine aka new villain, Brainiac. This will be a
recurring role. So give it a view and support James by contacting the
WB via e-mail, telephone, and postcard and by posting on the WB
Board. Let the WB know how much you enjoy seeing James. If you are
new to Smallville and are watching because of James or are a
returning viewer (like me) don't be shy about mentioning that. Please
be polite and positive. And, oh yeah, if you want to see a Spike
movie, you might want to mention that, too.

Here's how to contact the WB:

The phone # for the WB is 818-977-5000 (ask for voicemail feedback).
Remember, the WB is located in California, so they are on Pacific Time
(and are open from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Mon-Fri).

If you are on Eastern Time, you should call after 12:00 PM.
If you are on Central Time, you should call after 11:00 AM.
If you are on Mountain Time, you should call after 10:00 AM.
If you are on Pacific Time, you should call after 9:00 AM.

You can also e-mail the WB at faces@....

You can reach the Smallville WB Board here:

http://talk.thewb.com/viewforum.php?forum=12&290129

Here's Endorill's thread at the WB:

http://talk.thewb.com/viewtopic.php?topic=586811&forum=12&3

Spike tv movie postcards will be coming soon!

Come on. Show some support for a great actor who's also great to the
fans!


Take A letter Cordelia

James Marsters On Smallville.

There was the merest peek of him on the first episode of Smallville's
New Fall Season. We know that as Brainiac, he will have lost his
English accent and his lovely blonde hair, but Spike fans have helped
to give a triple digit increase to the numbers watching. James,
himself, is modest about the gain.

He would never dream of taking that kind of credit. All I can do is
talk from my own experience. When Angel was cancelled from the WB, I
did exactly as I said I would. I stopped watching the WB. I didn't
even tune in for the The Mountain episodes with James in them. I
stopped watching Charmed. The WB did not exist on my planet.

Yet, here I am watching Smallville. I do it because if enough of us
do it and let the WB know that we want to see that Spike Movie made,
they'll have to honor the promise they made. It won't be enough to
tell us the ball is in the other court.
It's crunch time and I am ready to give the WB a chance, with
Smallville, to win back my trust. Somebody has to tell these folks,
Dark Shadows remakes ain't gonna cut it. I won't (and neither will my
very large family) be satisfied with just glimpses of James as
Brainiac. Smallville's nice, but Sunnydale was nicer, and best of
all, is Spike and Angel's Los Angeles. That's what I want to go back
and see.




Wesley's Archives
Print and Media Mentions

As you know, this column deals with other media, this one is a first:
Spike and Buffy have been immortalized as stencils to carve on your
Halloween pumpkin!

http://www.zombiepumpkins.com/tv.php?PHPSE...90fe0bd63cf48c2


Firefly - "Serenity" Movie is now #7 at the Box Office
From Boxofficemojo.com - 2005-10-13
US Box Office:

Monday 10/10:

No. 8, 11th day, $700,480 daily gross, $320 per screen.

Tuesday 10/11:

No. 7, 12th day, $373,050 daily gross, $170 per screen.

Total gross after 12 days
19,094,405


Serenity Movie No. 4 in London Box Office from only 12 screens
From Timeout.com - By Scott Henderson - 2005-10-13

Oliver Twist' tops London's chart. Roman Polanski's Oscar-contender
is a new entry at number one.

This Week Last week Screens 3-day total
1 (-) Oliver Twist 17 �99,836
2 (1) A History of Violence 22 �99,306
3 (2) Pride & Prejudice 19 �75,602
4 (-) Serenity 12 �72,268
5 (-) Kinky Boots 16 �45,979
6 (-) Night Watch 17 �35,664
7 (4) Four Brothers 8 �23,158
8 (3) Howl's Moving Castle 12 �22,650
9 (6) Crash 13 �13,805
10 (6) The 40 Year-Old Virgin 9 �13,244

London Box Office courtesy Screen International


Lorne's Lounge
Actors in Other Roles

Alyson Hannigan - "How I Met Your Mother" Sitcom - CBS gives it full
season
From Thefutoncritic.com - 2005-10-13.

Released by CBS:

CBS GIVES FULL SEASON ORDERS TO "HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER," "GHOST
WHISPERER" AND "CRIMINAL MINDS"

CBS has given full season orders to its new comedy HOW I MET YOUR
MOTHER, and to freshmen dramas GHOST WHISPERER and CRIMINAL MINDS.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson
Hannigan, Neil Patrick Harris and Cobie Smulders, is averaging 10.41
million viewers and has placed first in its Monday (8:30-9:00 PM)
time period in viewers and key demographics against regularly
scheduled programs. HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER has increased the time
period by +6% in adults 18-49 (3.7/9 vs. 3.5/9) and +12% in adults 18-
34 (2.8/8 vs. 2.5/7).

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER is produced by Twentieth Century Fox
Television. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, Eileen Heisler and DeAnn
Heline are executive producers.


Eliza Dushku - "True Lies 2" Movie - More News
From Joblo.com - By Omar Aviles - 2005-10-12

Earlier this year, Tom Arnold spoke to Star Magazine about a rumored
TRUE LIES sequel and mentioned the following:

"We all caught up - Jim [Cameron], Jamie [Lee Curtis], Eliza
[Dushku], Bill [Paxton] and myself - to talk about True Lies 2 about
a month ago in Cali. We're doing it. Definitely doing it. I'm revved."

Seems unlikely but if Arnold wants to talk about it, that's cool.
However, things just got a little more interesting since Chris
alerted us to what Dushku said about this proposed sequel in a recent
issue of Buffy Magazine. What's interesting is the fact that she said
the exact same thing as Arnold. She mentioned:

"We all caught up Me, Jamie Lee, Arnold, and Jim, to talk about True
Lies 2, about a month ago in California. We're Doing it. Definitely
doing it. I'm revved."

What are the chances of both of them saying the exact same thing?
When did this "catching-up" meeting actually take place? Did they
actually discuss the sequel? Is it really happening? What's the real
truth here? More importantly, who uses "revved" anymore? All
interesting questions which may never be answered and if they aren't,
I'm pretty sure most people would be ok with that.

On a related note, Dushku apparently wants to be Wonder Woman.
However, so does Morena Baccarin and Joss Whedon seems to favor her
for the role. One thing that can't be debated is that they're both
certainly hot enough for the role.

Nicholas Brendan and Adrienne Barbeau can be seen in a film clip from
the new movie: UNHOLY

http://join1.winhundred.com/unholyfilm/unholy.html

Also on Nick:
Nicholas Brendon - "Kitchen Confidential" Tv Series - Kristin says is
not cancelled
From Eonline.com - 2005-10-12

From tvjunkie1577: What is going on with Kitchen Confidential? I keep
hearing it's canceled. Say it ain't so!

It is not canceled...at least not yet. There was confusion because
it's off the schedule for baseball, but it is still in production, so
tune in.

David Boreanaz's Bones is in the same boat as no new episodes will be
shown on FOX until after the World Series. I like sports as much as
the next guy, but you have to wonder is this a fair way to judge a
new series?

"Once More With Feeling", the musical episode from season 6 of Buffy:
The Vampire Slayer is being brought back to life. A San Francisco
arts group called Counter Pulse is mounting a live stage production
of the musical episode, which aired on UPN in Nov. of 2001. They will
run performances on Oct. 22 and 23 and again on Halloween night. The
group is playing two shows a night and THREE of the PERFOMANCES ARE
(already) SOLD OUT!

"Once More With Feeling" which was written (I hardly need tell you)
by Joss Whedon, who also directed it and composed the songs. The
Buffy creator opens his tv episode with Buffy and The Scoobies
inexplicably breaking into song, Broadway style and at the same time
revealing secrets about themselves. They eventually discover that a
musical demon, accidentally summoned to Sunnydale, is making
mischief.

This episode earned an Emmy nomination (and fans are still bitter
that it didn't win)
for music direction (like there was competition from another show's
musical).

This stage production features a live band performing with the
dancers and actors. Counter Pulse says "costumes are encouraged."
Ticket information is available at:

http://www.counterpulse.org

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even as you read these words, there is no joy in Mudville,or more
particularly in San Francisco. The lawyers at Fox, threatened and
cowed, the non- profit alternative dance and music company known as
counterpulse into canceling all shows.You can read all about it at
the above url. Send them a sympathy note.ok?

Charisma Carpenter - Ausiello says the hatchet has been buried with
Joss Whedon
From tvguide.com - 2005-10-15

Question: Did Joss Whedon mention Charisma Carpenter being on
Veronica Mars while you were interviewing him? Is there any chance
the rift between them has healed? - Lara Du Pres

Ausiello: Yes, he discussed Charisma and yes, I think we can assume
from his comments that the rumored hatchet has been buried. This is
what he said when I asked him why he thinks Charisma keeps getting
cast as bitchy sexpots: "She looks the part, let's face it. She's a
stunner, she's voluptuous, she's got that sort of air about her. But
she's not that person at all... I mean, Cordelia was that person
until we said, 'Let's see the other side.' She can just sort of take
that and hit it out of the park, and then if you need to get in
deeper, there's more there. Whether or not they're going to show that
[on Veronica Mars] I don't know, although that is sort of Veronica
Mars' benchmark. It's their staple that the person you think you know
perfectly is more textured."

From: Fireflyfans.net
Original Source: browncoats.serenitymovie.com

Joss posted:


Post subject: Worst. Movie. Ever.

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was probably "Summer Holiday" with Mickey Rooney. Can you believe that
kid was the biggest star in the world? Funny world.

Meanwhile, I'm just rounding out the weekend with a little praise for
my dear peeps. Considering everything we've had to overcome, this is
an extraordinary achievment. And you guys have been in the front
lines. I lurk, I know all. So thanks. Some of you might know that this
flick means more than a little to me.

Yes, the second weekend will tell all, as we've always known. I'm not
here to push you guys -- you push yourselves way harder than I could
anyway. I'm just trying to figure out how to get the message out to
the guys that aren't you, that don't know any of you, and that don't
run into someone who saw the film. I'll be hounding the extremely
patient Uni execs on that very subject. Like the lady said, "People
have to know".

It's not that there HAS to be a sequel. It's just that I've got so
many IDEAS.