The long-lost Buffy The Vampire Slayer animated spinoff has “leaked” onto YouTube, fueling rumors of a possible return.

Buffy’s back! …Well, kind of, as TheWB.com launches today, where you can watch old shows from before The CW begat Gossip Girl and America’s Next Top Model.

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1. Don’t Forget About the Kids
2. Can the Frog Make a Great Leap?
3. TheWB Will Also Feature Original Content …AND “In Living Color!”
4. TheWB.com Launches Today

Complete with stake, garlic, cross, and a built-in Bible, this 1800s Vampire Killing Kit recently sold for $14,850 at a auction.

The Buffy star and her husband, Freddie Prinze, Jr., are officially expecting a bebe.

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1. “Never Put On a Freddie Prinze Jr. Movie While Sarah is Still Pregnant.”
2. Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Junior Remind Us Of Their Existence
3. Baby 4 Buffy!

FINALLY! A clever vampire mashup mixes the witty world of Buffy with the sappy dramatics of Twilight, because you know Buffy wouldn’t take the creepy Edward Cullen stalking.

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So was Scott Wolf (Bailey Salinger) ever on Ally McBeal? Because he’s totally the right age — i.e., 41.

1. Dawson's Creek

2. Buffy The Vampire Slayer

3. Party Of Five

4. My So-Called Life

5. Boy Meets World

6. Ally McBeal

7. Clarissa Explains It All

8. Friends

9. Melrose Place

10. Beverly Hills, 90210

Yeah, I made this Buffy the Vampire Slayer pumpkin; you jelly? Share your favorite/best pumpkin carving!

The idle threats made by Warner Bros. last year to “reboot the Buffy The Vampire Slayer franchise” without any involvement from Joss Whedon have turned out to be not so idle…

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Inspired by Andrew Lincoln, who plays all American lawman Rick Grimes on The Walking Dead, being a filthy limey. These are all television actors who play Americans or characters who talk American, but weren’t born in the U.S. of mother effin’ A. They’re takin’ our jobs!

1. Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes, "The Walking Dead), England

2. 2. Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse, "True Blood"), Canada

3. 3. Alexander Skarsgård (Eric Northman, "True Blood"), Sweden

4. 4. Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton, "True Blood"), England

5. 5. Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse, "True Blood"), Australia

6. 6. Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass, "Gossip Girl), England

7. 7. Simon Baker (Patrick Jane, "The Mentalist"), Australia

8. 8. Matt Passmore (Jim Longworth, "The Glades"), Australia

9. 9. Jessalyn Gilsig (Terri Schuester, "Glee"), Canada

10. 10. Cory Monteith (Finn Hudson, "Gelee"), Canada

11. 11. Idris Elba (Stringer Bell, "The Wire," and Charles Miner, "The Office"), England

12. 12. Dominic West (James McNulty, "The Wire"), England

13. 13. Anthony LaPaglia (Jack Malone, "Without A Trace"), Australia

14. 14. Hugh Laurie (Greg House, "House"), England

15. 15. Linus Roache (Michael Cutter, "Law & Order"), England

16. 16. Elisabeth Röhm (Serena Southerlyn, "Law & Order"), Germany

17. 17. Alfred Molina (Ricardo Morales, "Law & Order: Los Angeles"), England

18. 18. Cobie Smulders (Robin Scherbatsky, "How I Met Your Mother"), Canada

19. 19. Johnny Galecki (David Healy, "Roseanne," and Leonard Hofstadter, "The Big Bang Theory"), Belgium

20. 20. Nicollette Sheridan (Edie Britt, "Desperate Housewives"), England

21. 21. Sandra Oh (Cristina Yang, "Grey's Anatomy"), Canada

22. 22. Kevin McKidd (Owen Hunt, "Grey's Anatomy"), Scotland

23. 23. Damian Lewis (Charlie Crews, "Life," and Richard Winters, "Band of Brothers"), England

24. 24. Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins, Friday Night Lights), Canada

25. 25. Rose Byrne (Ellen Parsons, Damages), Australia

26. 26. Anastasia Griffith (Katie Connor, Damages, and Nancy Carnahan, Trauma), France

27. 27. Zeljko Ivanek (Blake Sterling, The Event, and many other shows), Romania

28. 28. Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan, Smallville), Germany

29. 29. Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang, Smallville), Canada

30. 30. Erica Durance (Lois Lane, Smallville), Canada

31. 31. Laura Gansevoort (Kara, Smallville, and Lisa, V), Canada

32. 32. Glenn Howerton (Dennis Reynolds, Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia), Japan

33. 33. Will Arnett (Gob Bluth, Arrested Development, and Steven Wilde, Running Wilde) Canada

34. 34. Michael Cera (George-Michael Bluth, Arrested Development, and Sal Viscuso, Childrens Hospital), Canada

35. 35. Charlie Hunnam (Jackson Jax Teller, Sons of Anarchy), England

36. 36. Tommy Flanagan (Filip Chibs Telford, Sons of Anarchy), Scotland

37. 37. Kim Coates (Alex Tig Trager, Sons of Anarchy), Canada

38. 38. Donal Logue (Hank Dolworth, Terriers), Canada

39. 39. Malin Akerman (Valerie Flame, Childrens Hospital), Sweden

40. 40. Anna Torv (Olivia Dunham, Fringe), Australia

41. 41. Joshua Jackson (Peter Bishop, Fringe), Canada

42. 42. Morena Baccarin (Anna, V), Brazil

43. 43. Rachel Griffiths (Sarah Walker, Brothers & Sisters), Australia

44. 44. Matthew Rhys (Kevin Walker, Brothers & Sisters), Wales

45. 45. Stana Katic (Kate Beckett, Castle), Canada

46. 46. Nathan Fillion (Richard Casle, Castle, and Malcolm Mal Reynolds, Firefly), Canada

47. 47. Justin Bieber (Jason McCann, "CSI") Canada

What do River Tam, Kaylee Frye, Chewbacca, Dante and Spike all have in common? They actually believed I was a legitimate journalist. Bless their hearts.

Summer Glau - How do you feel about Black Walnut Ice Cream?

Editor's Note: Really Gavon? That was your question?

Jewel Staite - You're always so nice and bubbly. Give us your best rage face!

Peter Mayhew - What are your thoughts on Man Leia?

Brian O'Halloran - How do you feel when fans quote "Clerks" at you?

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That’s getting into the spirit! Sort of. Is that a “come hither” or “murdered filled rage” expression?

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Here are 17 sites that are still being hosted by Angelfire and indexed on Google. If you visit them, just make sure to sign their guestbooks.

Here's a dial-up sound, to get in the mood before you look at any of these

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http://www.angelfire.com/co/cisco/

An insane, rambling webcomic hosted on Angelfire is nothing new, but what's noteworthy about this one is that according to the header, this comic was put up in 2010. That's amazing.

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http://www.angelfire.com/comics/gameroom/

Shockingly, this is the only Yugi-Oh! web comic on this list.

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http://www.angelfire.com/comics/gnlib/

GNLIB's layout is probably the most complicated, I mean, look at that table. That has like 5 rows in it!

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It’s a golden age of True Pairings: there’s the public coupling of Michael and Jackie (That 70’s Show), as well as Jon Snow and Ygritte (Game of Thrones), plus unsubstantiated rumors of a romance between Mulder and Scully (The X-Files), and most recently, flirty pictures of a reunion between Dylan and Kelly (90210). Who would you be the most excited to see k-i-s-s-i-n-g in real life?

Jerry and Elaine

Seinfeld

Kevin and Winnie

The Wonder Years

Sam and Diane

Cheers

Angela and Jordan

My So-Called Life

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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics, which picks up where the TV series left off, will introduce Billy, the first openly gay male Slayer.

In an exclusive interview with Out, Jane Espenson, writer and producer of the Buffy series and co-creator of Husbands, says that his character is meant to empower young gay men:

Additionally, she explains how despite the mythology dictating that only women can be Slayers, Billy's character will go the Batman route:

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Seth Green was on the set of How I Met Your Mother and it looks as though he’ll be starring in a college flashback.

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Sepinwall’s new book, The Revolution Was Televised, looks back at the (very recent) golden age of the television drama. Let’s grill him!

Tony Soprano.

Alan Sepinwall — the prolific TV critic, even-keeled Twitter presence and saver of Chuck — has written a book about the ongoing golden age of television dramas called The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever. Read it and you get the backstory of era-defining shows such as Lost, Oz, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Shield, and, of course, The Sopranos, which Sepinwall wrote about weekly at the Star-Ledger. (He now writes for Hitfix.) It’s a fast yet exhaustive read — TV fans will love it. The book is self-published, and you can buy it at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and through iTunes.

Sepinwall — who's been a friendly acquaintance for years — and I e-mailed extensively about The Revolution Was Televised this week. We discussed endings and antiheroes, and I pressed him particularly on why he left out certain shows (you’ll see which ones below) that would have defined this revolutionary time in television differently, perhaps — and more diversely. Our e-mail exchange is below.

KA: How did you pick which shows to focus on? What was your taste and shows you really know and cover, versus what other people might consider to be revolutionary dramas?

AS: Some of them were obvious, particularly the four HBO shows that start the book. (And I left out Six Feet Under in part because I didn't want to do HBO overload, but also because I never liked that show as much as the others, though it was certainly capable of greatness at times.) After that, I tried as best I could to pick shows that I both loved — because I really didn't want to be spending a lot of time poring over ones I didn't care for — and that reflected some larger part of the story of this period. So The Shield chapter is a lot about how HBO's monopoly on this kind of show ended, the Buffy chapter is about the WB (and, to a lesser extent, UPN) as an alternative place where creators were getting a bit more freedom to experiment, and the chapters on Friday Night Lights, Lost, and 24 all in different ways deal with the changes in technology and distribution systems that were cropping up during this period. I tried to not just make it "the best dramas ever," or even "the best dramas of this period" — you'll notice that West Wing (which was a great but very traditional network-y show) is barely mentioned at all in the book — but to be about this specific movement. There was even a period when Mad Men and Breaking Bad were going to be squeezed into a single chapter, because I wanted to include Breaking Bad but worried there wasn't enough of a different angle from Mad Men (and the rise of AMC) to justify its own chapter.

The inscrutable Don Draper gaze. Courtesy of AMC.

KA: Let's get to Six Feet Under in a little bit. Tell me about how you define the "movement" — there's certainly an antihero thread that runs through a lot of these shows that could be called derivative.

AS: Well, certainly there's a lot of middle-aged white male antiheroism going on in there. The Sopranos was the first big hit of the movement, and even rule-breaking TV takes inspiration from those who came before. (As I note in The Sopranos chapter, HBO's choice to follow Oz came down to Sopranos vs. a Winnie Holzman show about a female business exec at a toy company, which would have made the next decade in TV very different, whether it succeeded or failed.) But I think the antihero thing also comes out of a sense of collective frustration most of these creators had with the traditional rules of TV drama (where the worst any protagonist could be was "crusty but benign") and then the sense of freedom they had during this Wild West period. When there are no laws for a while, suddenly everyone's an outlaw, which translates not just into shows about criminals, but shows that don't behave the way we'd been conditioned to expect from decades of TV before it. So you could have a show like Sopranos where the narrative took frequent detours or deliberately went down dead ends, and you could have another like The Wire where each season was one big, interwoven story where the whole was much better than the sum of the individual episodes. You could have both an action show (24) and a space opera (Battlestar Galactica) dealing with hot-button political issues like religious fundamentalism and torture, or even a high school drama like Friday Night Lights that was matter-of-fact in its depiction of teen drinking and sexuality, which had previously required Very Special Episodes to deal with.

KA: The thing about the antihero shows is how few people watch them. Other than The Sopranos, which was actually a huge, popular hit, as you point out in the book, the closest runner-up, ratings-wise, would be The Shield — and House, which isn't in the book, was massive for awhile. Is it just a case of angry middle-aged male executives loving stories about angry middle-aged male characters? Or is there something about this area of storytelling that lends itself to unique stories?

AS: Well, it depends on how you view a show like Lost (where Jack was the unquestioned hero but also kind of a self-destructive, bullying jackass) or 24 (another Jack who violated various rules and social conventions, albeit in a direction the creators meant as more purely heroic), which were both big commercial hits. But no, most of these shows did not have huge ratings, but they tended to do well with critics (who were — and are — still predominantly middle-aged white guys) and Emmy voters, so there was a level of prestige to them (particularly at a network like AMC, where attention-seeking was really the only motive for the creation of Mad Men). And though money remains by far the primary motivator among TV executives, most of the ones I've met over the years are in the business because on some level, they really do like television and want to make good shows. (Preferably with American Idol–level ratings, but you can't have everything.) There was definitely a sense in talking to Chris Albrecht, Kevin Reilly, Rob Sorcher, and some of the other execs from this period that they were really just happy at first to be trying something new. That many of these shows wound up being similar thematically wasn't really apparent until later in the decade.

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Friends don’t let friends date the undead.

OK, there's a new vampire on your radar.

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You're thinking about asking him to prom.

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Or at least to make out a bunch.

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Believe me, I get the appeal.

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From Jesse and the Rippers to Dr. Funke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family Band Solution, these are the best fake bands that were ever on television.

Zack Attack, "Saved by the Bell"

The Be Sharps, "The Simpsons"

Pusswhip Banggang, "Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!"

Literally the best band ever, on television or off of it.

Dingoes Ate My Baby, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

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Smash and Glee aren’t the only TV series that have expressed themselves in song.

"Oz"

The episode: "Variety"
Why they're singing: There's a variety show. But that only accounts for the diegetic songs. The rest are performed in place of the standard narrator segments, just 'cause.
Why it's WTF: Oz is a gritty prison drama, one of TV's first MA-rated series. Also B.D. Wong does Tori Amos' "Leather."

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"7th Heaven"

The episode: "Red Socks"
Why they're singing: Because it's Valentine's Day. There's no better way to express your feelings for someone than through song. Even poorly sung song!
Why it's WTF: Aside from the fact that there's not a whole lot of singing talent here, this is another musical episode without any real explanation.

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"Scrubs"

The episode: "My Musical"
Why they're singing: The patient has (spoiler alert) a brain aneurysm that makes her imagine the doctors at Sacred Heart are performing a musical for her benefit.
Why it's WTF: Music and medicine generally don't mix. On the other hand, Scrubs' addition to the genre is still less out of place than the subsequent offenders.

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"Chicago Hope"

The episode: "Brain Salad Surgery"
Why they're singing: Wouldn't you know it? Another brain aneurysm. Seeing the doctors treating you as musical theater performers must be a standard side effect.
Why it's WTF: At least Scrubs was already a wacky series — Chicago Hope was a more straightforward drama, which makes these musical sequences all the more bizarre.

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In 2003 I took to LiveJournal to rank my favorite hotties.

This is my contribution to What's Something Awesome You Made When You Were a Kid? (Assuming 17 still counts as a kid. It does, right?)

In November of 2003, there was a LiveJournal hotness ranking meme: the goal was to pick 20 of your crushes and rank them according to sex appeal. Before you judge my list, keep in mind that it was 2003. And that, as my friend Anna noted at the time, my taste is "whack."

Shia LaBeouf

This was pre-Transformers. I was weirdly obsessed with Project Greenlight and The Battle of Shaker Heights.

Miramax Films

Peter Krause

I wasn't really watching Six Feet Under, but I had leftover feelings from Sports Night.

HBO

Mo Rocca

I loved I Love the '80s. More importantly, I loved the men of I Love the '80s.

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