{"id":326,"date":"2004-02-14T02:39:46-05:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T10:39:46+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=326"},"modified":"2004-02-14T02:39:46-05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T10:39:46+00:00","slug":"angel-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/02\/14\/angel-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel&nbsp;dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thewb.com\/PressRelease\/Index\/0,8341,156980,00.html\" title=\"Official WB statement\">&#8230;we went to Joss [Whedon] to let him know that this would be the last year of [<cite class=\"title\">Angel<\/cite>] on The WB.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This looks bad.  This looks really bad.<\/p>\n\n<p>I wonder how much this has to do with the fact that the series for which Whedon is best known, <cite class=\"title\">Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/cite>, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/columnist\/poniewozik\/article\/0,9565,107337,00.html\">scooped from the WB by UPN<\/a>.  From what I understand of the entertainment world (which is, admittedly, very little) it&#8217;s possible <cite class=\"title\">Angel<\/cite> was included near the end of <cite class=\"title\">Buffy<\/cite>&#8216;s WB run as a dealmaker; once <cite class=\"title\">Buffy<\/cite> left, WB had no reason to keep <cite class=\"title\">Angel<\/cite> going, and indeed they&#8217;ve been trying to cancel the series for a couple of years, ever since UPN&#8217;s coup.<\/p>\n\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/walkonthemoon.typepad.com\/\" rel=\"friend met\">Donna<\/a> and I were discussing earlier today, <cite class=\"title\">Angel<\/cite> has gone in a direction we&#8217;re not particularly fond of this season, moving away from longer-term story arcs and into one-shot episodes and mini-arcs.  (Did network executives learn <em>nothing<\/em> from <cite class=\"title\">Babylon 5<\/cite>?)  Even so, it&#8217;s fared much better in its new incarnation than the zombified corpse that NBC refers to as <cite class=\"title\">The West Wing<\/cite>, largely due to the excellent staff of writers.<\/p>\n\n<p>With UPN close to cancelling <cite class=\"title\">Enterprise<\/cite> (thankfully) I hope they&#8217;re looking very closely at scooping the other Buffiverse show, if only as thanks to Joss for keeping them alive for a few more years than they&#8217;d have had otherwise.  Does lightning ever strike twice in TeeVee Land?<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;we went to Joss [Whedon] to let him know that this would be the last year of [Angel] on The WB. This looks bad. This looks really bad. I wonder how much this has to do with the fact that the series for which Whedon is best known, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, was scooped from&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}