Re-Airing of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Pilot on WB

POSTED BY: est120
UPDATED: Thursday, July 6, 2006 10:17
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EST120

Friday, June 30, 2006 6:36 PM

Want to feel like it is 1997 all over again? Hey, why not? 1997 was a good year. It brought us the likes of.... well, I cannot think of anything, but it might be your best bet to travel back in time, if only for an hour. I wonder if Angel will be on this list too.

From IMDB:
Wb Network Plans Its Own Funeral
The WB network plans to sign off on Sept. 17 by airing pilots of some of its biggest hits, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Felicity and Dawson's Creek. According to Daily Variety, it also plans to air promos from its 11-year history and clips of some of the actors who have appeared on its shows over the years. The trade publication observed that such a farewell for a network is "unprecedented." The only other network ever to shut down, the Dumont network, did so in 1956 -- again after an 11-year run. Few recordings of its programs even exist today. In 1996, actress Edie Adams, widow of comedian Ernie Kovacs, testified that virtually none of her late husband's early programs exist. She recalled that there had been a dispute over who was to pay for storing the programs that did exist on so-called kinescope recordings. The dispute, she said, was settled when they were loaded onto trucks, driven to a waiting barg

SID872

Sunday, July 2, 2006 7:14 PM

I read this news on IGN.com ( http://tv.ign.com/articles/716/716042p1.html). I don't live in US so won't be watching them but apparently Angel will also be shown according to IGN. The schedule will go:

"Felicity at 5:00 pm, Angel at 6:00 pm, the original two-hour broadcast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer at 7:00 pm and Dawson's Creek at 9:00 pm"

JUTIN77

Sunday, July 2, 2006 9:02 PM

that's really cool

PEULSAR5

Thursday, July 6, 2006 10:17 AM

As far as I'm concerned with the WB: I'ts too little, too late. (Same with UPN) I'm actually ready for Smallville to end so I can quit watching the network and wash my hands of the whole thing. Now, of course, say they bring back a show set 500 years from now about a transport ship; Firefly class...