June 30, 2008
The writers' strike that crippled Hollywood for many months was certainly painful for everybody in the industry, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon put his time off to good use. Whedon spent his time writing and directing a 42 minute "Internet miniseries event" entitled Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. The production, which is an elaborate musical about a wannabe supervillain who longs to rule the world, stars Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) as the title character, along with Nathan Fillion (Firefly) as his nemesis and Felicia Day (who played potential slayer Vi in Buffy season 7) as the girl he covets.
Read on for news about where you can catch Dr. Horrible, as well as a sneak peek at the exciting trailer.
May 14, 2008
Julie Benz graciously attended the Emerald City ComiCon held in Seattle, Washington this past weekend. Probably best known for playing the vampire Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Benz participated in a Q and A session during the event, allowing fans to personally ask her questions.
Benz started out the session tentatively, just repeating "Hi" over and over again. It was endearing that she looked so hesitant and awkward at being in the spotlight.
May 11, 2008
In honor of Mother's Day, BuddyTV has compiled this list of our 10 favorite motherly moments.
Being the mother of the Chosen One can't be hard, as Joyce Summers (Kristine Sutherland) realized over the course of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yet before she knew of her daughter's secret life, Joyce was an ordinary mother, desperate to keep her kid safe. In the season 2 episode “School Hard,” Spike and Drusilla's gang invade the school on Parent/Teacher Night, making it all the more difficult for Buffy to do her duty without being caught.
May 9, 2008
The sixth annual Emerald City ComiCon takes place this weekend, May 10th and 11th, at the Washington State Convention Center in the fair city of Seattle. Among of the special media guests who will be in attendance are Jamie Bamber, who plays Major Lee "Apollo" Adama on Battlestar Galactica and Julie Benz, who plays Rita Bennett on Dexter and who played Darla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
BuddyTV will be attending the Emerald City ComiCon and interviewing Jamie Bamber and Julie Benz, as well as giving away free goodies for all convention attendees at the BuddyTV booth.
April 17, 2008
It's a great day for fans who are looking forward to Joss Whedon's new FOX series, Dollhouse. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's latest foray into television is about a girl named Echo, played by Eliza Dushku, who is part of an elite group of people known as "dolls." These dolls are humans who have had their personalities wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas, making them the perfect undercover operatives for dangerous assignments.
It was previously announced that actors such as Olivia Williams and Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica) would be in the cast, and now two more familiar names have been announced for prominent roles: Harry Lennix (24) and former Angel actress Amy Acker.
March 21, 2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was my favorite show while in high school. I had a bunch of friends who watched it and, like all of them, when we first became aware of the show we were all quite reticent to dive in. First of all, the title is simply ridiculous and it just didn't seem like a series that a fifteen year old guy would like. All it took was one viewing, however, and I was hooked. There had never been anything like it – it was a crazy comedy/horror/action/high-school drama hybrid that, somehow, spoke to me as a high schooler more so than any other high-school set series (to be fair, I had yet to discover Freaks and Geeks). Also, a teenage boy has no choice but to fall in love with Sarah Michelle Gellar after watching Buffy. I'd be lying if I said that had nothing to do with my fandom. The Paley Festival hosted a panel/reunion with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer team last night in Los Angeles. This is what went down.
January 24, 2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans who live in Los Angeles and have some extra cash to spare will be feeling very lucky in March. That's when the cast of the classic genre series will be reuniting on stage for the 25th Annual Paley Television Festival. Named for William S. Paley, founder of both the Paley Center and the CBS network, the annual pop-culture event celebrates television's rich and diverse programming, as well as the creative process behind the medium. During the event, audience members will have a chance to ask the cast questions and see highlights of Buffy's seven-year run. PaleyFest 2008 will be taking place from March 14 to the 27, and will also feature other exciting events for television fans.
January 21, 2008
On television, there appears to be a gender bias when it comes to the portrayal of homosexuality. While gay men are catty best friends and deeply dramatic teens, lesbians are much rarer, unless you only count Showtime's The L Word. Why this is we're not quite sure, all we know is this: we love lesbians.
Going back through the years, we put together a list of our five favorite TV lesbians. These aren't the most socially important or famous like Ellen DeGeneres. Instead, we thought long and hard about the TV lesbians we loved to watch, the ones we fell in love with, and the ones who made us laugh out loud.