WB Cancels Angel
 

The WB announced today that Angel won't be back for a sixth season. The news comes on the heels of the network airing the 100th episode of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off starring David Boreanaz. The WB issued a statement early in order to give the show's creators time to wrap up the season appropriately.

"For the last seven years 'Angel' and 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' have been cornerstones of our network. The sum total of the work done on those shows has produced some of the proudest moments in our history," said the network.

"Like some of the great series that are leaving the air this year, including 'Frasier' and 'Friends,' the cast, crew, writers and producers of 'Angel' deserve to be able to wrap up the series in a way befitting a classic television series and that is why we went to Joss to let him know that this would be the last year of the series on The WB."

The cancellation might not be the end of Angel altogether though. "We have discussed continuing the 'Angel' legacy with special movie events next year, which is still on the table," said The WB. "In a perfect world, all of these details would be completed before this information went to the press so that we could be definitive about the show's ongoing future. But in any case, we did not want to contemplate this being the last year of 'Angel' without giving the show the option of crafting their own destiny for this character and for this series."

The network also praised Boreanaz, cast and crew. "David Boreanaz continues to be one of the finest, classiest and friendliest actors we have had the pleasure to work with and we hope that the relationship furthers from here. The same can be said for all the actors and producers on the show."

There are still nine episodes left in this, now last, season of Angel.



Source: Warner Bros.

thanx for the article sam i read this on a spoiler site i go on. i am a little shocked about it . i hope like buffy it goes out w/ a bang. i will miss it though but i think its not done yet it still has storiess taht need to b done.

so thanx for posting the full article

i have went to the wb site and alot of ppl in that forum r against it. its only 5th season and they have so many possibilities for the show like w/ new batches of slayers thanx to willows spell at the end of buffys finale and reformation of the watchers council and the whole wolfram and heart thing theres many possibilities . if any thing should of been canceld it should have been charmed i tryed to re watch it this seaseon but charmed just got a tad stupid when pru was killed off i mean rose mcgowan did good the next season but then it went down hill. i think if anything should of got cancelled it should of been charmed not angel.

i know i quoted myself i wanted to hit edit and i hit quote by mistake

I haven't watched the show much, only the first season, but I hear that there's way too much to wrap up in 9 episodes

theres is definitley alot to wrap up in 9 episodes.i think it should b one more season though for it so they have more time to explain things and wrap the show up.

thanx again for the full story on it sam

Bright side: I'll catch up on the DVD's faster

yeah u can now buy up to season 3 of angel on dvd. or u can catch up by watching it on tnt but it doesn't go in order just show random episodes i know other stations also do angel repeats but i forget waht station

I still need to buy season 2

I lost interest after they killed off Doyle.

it sux that the actor that played him died last year or they could have brought him back. he used to b on roseanne to

I didn't like it when Doyle died, but I like THAT he died...as weird as that sounds. It showed that nobody was untouchable on the show. Just because you're in the core cast, even in the opening credits, you can still die.

i thought it was kool that he was able to pass on his ability to cordy. and i was happy how they brought her charecter to a close this season during the 100th eoisode. did a really good job. wasn't tha actor that played doyle fired from the show???

I dunno.

It doesn't seem like Joss has much luck with his shows staying in one place. Buffy lasted five seasons, got moved, lasted two seasons and ended. Angel lasted five seasons and might not be moving anywhere. And Firefly went nowhere, that show got canceled faster than a baby in an abortion clinic.

Boo Hoo...I never liked it anyway

Yeah Glenn Quinn - he played Mark on Roseanne. The guy who played DJ has set up some kind of society/fund thing for the late actor.

but i think buffy ended well for its seven yr run and most showslast between 7 - 10 seasons. i never really got in to firefly though . best buffy episodes i would say were hush, the body and the musical one
out of angel i would say the 100th episode and the one w/ connor being born . i hope w/ the nine episodes left that it ends good like buffy mayb they can bring her back for a episode even if she said she wouldn't comeback this season but since its the last season u never know she might come bakck for one final episode

Good news for Angel fans (So...pretty much just me and Bloodygurl will be reading this).

Hooray

thanx for the article sam. HORRRRRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

u just made my day even better sam:D :D :D :D :D

they better save that show... tv sucks so bad over here as it is ! what the hell am i gonna watch now ??!!! ... i hate french tv !! :mad:

you could always watch porn. Or I'm sure they've got some pretentious artsie French movies over there. Maybe a Krystov Keislowski (sp?) movie or something.

Ditto IMO both Angel and Buffy suck fat, sweaty otter nutsacks.

gasp! *attacks and villifies SFF for her opinion*

found this article on scifi.com

http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main....2/10.45.rumors

12:00pm ET, 12-March-04

Angel Not Dead Yet?

Are reports of the death of The WB's Angel exaggerated? The IGN FilmForce Web site, citing anonymous sources, reported rumors that the network is in talks with Fox and Mutant Enemy, which produce Angel, about a possible sixth season, even though The WB has already announced that Angel will disappear at the end of the current fifth season. A source, posting on a WB bulletin board, reported the talks, the site said.

Other posts have suggested that The WB is going to be taking a close look at the ratings for upcoming episodes, including repeats, and basing its decision on whether or not to revive the show on them.

Another source reported that Sky One, the satellite network owned by Rupert Murdoch, has been told that talks for a sixth season of the vampire drama are underway and that there will be a new season available, the site reported.

I hope they just go one more season. That way, they'll know to give time for closure. They got the news of the cancelation late in the season for them to be able to wrap much of anything up.

yeha i hope for the same thing. the y need more time for closure like u said and they were told last minute. as soon as i read about it being cancelled i was like waht the hell.

i have a few links to more angel stories both r off scifi.com

GELLER OPEN TO ANGEL GIG:
http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.ht...03/03/17.00.tv

BELL PREVIEWS ANGEL: this on talks about upcoming episodes for the reast of the season from waht i read it has to do w/ connor and lindsay:

http://scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.ht...03/02/13.00.tv

I just hope they don't try for 2 more. One more would be just the right amount. Plus, they might get cancelled after season 6 and then they'd have the same problem

yeah at least keep it around for 1 more season just to fill in the gaps and let it end w/ a bang. not rush it like they r now by going back and re taping episodes that they already had taped.i would like it to stick around for one more season

Good.

Watched the WWII episode of Angel last night, the one set in the submarine!

All I can say is I'm glad they are ending it!

That episode was weak, weak, weak!

End it while it's somewhere near the top of it's game. Don't let what happened to Buffy, happen to Angel!