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NEWS ABOUT: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer stories: 9 news summaries

 Relationships 
 That Wouldn't 
 Work in Reality 

Hollywood cooks up some screwed up matches

Nov 4, 09 3:35 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood’s great at making us root for relationships that shouldn’t work. But some of them really shouldn’t work. The Nerve imagines if the following couples moved in next-door:
  • Beauty and the Beast: No, I’m not kissing a dog … he’s really a
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entertainment • television • Beauty and the Beast • Arrested Development • Dexter • movies • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Mad Men

(Newser) - Actress Alyson Hannigan and husband Alexis Denisof joined the ranks of celeb parents with unconventionally named children, People reports, with daughter Satyana Denisof, born last week. “They’re very excited, and mom and baby are doing great,” a rep for the couple said. It’s the first child... More »

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baby • celebrity pregnancy • How I Met Your Mother • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Alyson Hannigan

TRAVEL

 Niche Cruises Set Sail 

Specialty vacations offer chance to indulge motorbike, fashion and au naturale fantasies

Jan 31, 09 2:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Increasingly popular niche cruises offer seafarers a chance to indulge in all manner of hobbies, fantasies and obsessions on the high seas, reports Travel and Leisure: For instance:
  • Star Trek/Buffy the Vampire Slayer: This week-long cruise offers fan conventions complete with autograph-signing celebs, star-studded karaoke and a chance
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motorcycle • vacation • Carnival Cruise Lines • Harley Davidson • Pink Floyd • cruise ships • cruises • Star Trek • holiday travel • cruise lines • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • niche

 WB Favorites Survive Online 

Fresh content, networking tools also in the mix

Sep 2, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer can rejoice: The defunct WB network relaunched last week as an interactive website. TheWB.com features on-demand episodes of its classic teen shows, alongside original programming aimed at the 16- to-34-year-old market, Advertising Age reports. The site also sports "sharing features,"... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • soap operas • Warner Brothers • network television • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

OPINION

 Teen TV That Flunked College

10 shows that fizzled after high school

Aug 6, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heading off to university is typically viewed as an accomplishment, but one blog contends that most TV shows tank when their characters take this major life step. College on the Record lists the top 10 series muddled by matriculation:
  1. Boy Meets World
  2. Saved by the Bell: The College Years
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television • high school • college • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • 90210

 Whedon's
 'Horrible'
 an Online Hit 

Evil genius is too good for his own good, and so is his show

Jul 16, 08 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hollywood’s Internet video forays have mostly been failures—remember Quarterlife?—but none of them starred a dorky singing mad scientist. Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog thankfully features just such a character, and it’s almost too successful for its own good. The first episode had been... More »

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online videos • Quarterlife • musical • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Joss Whedon

 Profs to Buffy: 
 You Slay Me  

Slayer fans meet to share scholarly insights

Jun 6, 08 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Buffy the Vampire Slayer started out lowbrow, but don’t tell that to the academics converging on Henderson State University today for a 3-day conference on the campy TV classic. The cheerleader-turned-monster fighter has inspired the kind of study usually reserved for major philosophers, the AP reports. The Arkansas university... More »

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philosophy • academia • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Joss Whedon

OPINION

 How Buffy Saved
 a Baghdad
 Reporter 

Watching cult classic kept NPR correspondent calm in war zone

May 21, 08 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - NPR correspondent Jamie Tarabay says that watching DVDs of the cult classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer series saved her life—psychologically—while reporting from Baghdad. “It can be a very lonesome gig,” Tarabay recalls, and watching the series’ vampire-fighting star “deal with her private war zone helped... More »

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Baghdad • journalism • correspondent • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy's Back! But Just for 1 Night

Whedon says a return to the air is unlikely

Mar 21, 08 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fans of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer got a shot of the old magic last night when the cast reunited for a panel discussion at the William Paley TV Festival, the AP reports. But Joss Whedon dampened devotees' hopes of resurrecting the cult favorite. “So many stars would have... More »

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television • reunion • Buffy the Vampire Slayer • Sarah Michelle Gellar • Joss Whedon • William Paley Television Festival • Michelle Trachtenberg

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