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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 27-7-2018 om 00:45 schreef Your Name:   
   >   
   > 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   
   >     --------------------------------------------------------   
   >     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-fol   
   ow-new-slayer-showrunner-confirms>   
   >   
      
      
   So, this could turn out to be some sort of sequel series....?   
      
   It does not preclude an actual reboot though....   
      
   >   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Uh... Those were big let downs in the end...  Started out cool, promised   
   a lot, but.... Just yikes.... :-(   
      
   Otoh, she also did something on 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'....   
      
      
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