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   The media these days stupidly uses the term "reboot" to mean any old   
   show that is being brought back into production, whether that's an   
   actual 'reboot', or a 're-imagination', or even just a 'resurrection'   
   with a properly done sequel / follow-on series.   
      
   From ComingSoon.net ...   
      
       Buffy reboot will follow new slayer, showrunner confirms   
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       It was officially announced last week that the hit WB series   
       Buffy the Vampire Slayer is getting the reboot treatment at   
       Fox with a black actress leading the series! Fan reaction as   
       mixed at first as it was initially seen as though Sarah   
       Michelle Gellar's portrayal would be replaced. However, new   
       showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen (Alias) has just confirmed   
       that the new series will not be replacing Gellar in the   
       titular role, but rather will focus on a new slayer.   
      
       "For some genre writers it's Star Wars. Buffy the Vampire   
       Slayer is my Star Wars," Owusu-Breen wrote in a tweet.   
       "Before I became a writer, I was a fan. For seven seasons,   
       I watched Buffy Summers grow up, find love, kill that love.   
       I watched her fight and struggle and slay. There is only ONE   
       Buffy. One Xander, one Willow, Giles, Cordelia, Oz, Tara,   
       Kendra, Faith, Spike, Angel ... They can't be replaced. Joss   
       Whedon's brilliant and beautiful series can't be replicated.   
       I wouldn't try to. But here we are, twenty years later ...   
       And the world seems a lot scarier. So maybe, it could be   
       time to meet a new Slayer ... And that's all I can say."   
      
   http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/960779-buffy-reboot-will-follo   
   -new-slayer-showrunner-confirms>   
      
      
      
   Of course, the article does go on to say ...   
      
      Owusu-Breen's previous credits in the TV world include the   
      J.J. Abrams espionage thriller Alias, mystery-drama Lost ...   
      
   so she could well have learnt from the master of deception (and crap TV   
   shows and movies) to say one thing but meant the total opposite.   
      
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