No.. its not a typo..
This is the top story on yahoo News right now.. and once again, Fox has screwed Whedon fans…
Basically, there was a live event that would play the episode “Once more With Feeling” from buffy, with live actors a la “Rocky Horror” and Fox has shut it down.. (The people involved made a good faith agreement with a group called Criterion which evidently has some say in these things)
Fox has shut it down saying that they have no right to do this..
The big question is.. why not broker a deal. there’s no money in this for Fox. Why do this, except that they want to “protect their rights”..
Well.. look over at aintitcool or whedonesque.. Buffy fans and Browncoats know that Fox has screwed the fans for a long, long time (see: Firefly episode airing and cancellation) – and now this is mor ebad blood. Foolish, I say.. what about you?
Don’t really care?
I’m normally pretty interested in the goings-on of the Jossiverse, but for some strange reason I can’t find myself caring about this very much. I think that yes, absolutely, television programs need to come up with a viable big-screen-performance licensing schedule as part of their planning for the show. These days, the DVD release and direct-to-Internet release via Netflix and iTunes are part of that planning; why not theatrical showings?
Other than that… meh, whatever. I enjoyed Buffy and Angel, and I’ve repeatedly thought about getting the comic book…
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Matthew P. Barnson
yeah
Yeah, I’m bummed about this. I would’ve like to play Spike, or (given the fact that I’m older than the people like to be into this sort of thing) Giles.
— Ben
Hrm..
Bummed.. I skipped the DC show saying “It will come by again..”
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