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31/10/02
BBC2 begins its run of Buffy's sixth season on Thursday, 31st October with "Bargaining Part One".

Fans have begun to anticipate how the channel, which is now infamous for it's edited episodes, will cut the episode, often described as one of the show's more grim and disturbing.

Check The Watcher's Web What's On guide for this week's episodes, airing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Thanks to/source: James Bugle

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20/10/02
Following in the pattern they started earlier this year, Sky One have missed out season six in their "complete run" of Buffy, much like season three.

Contractual agreements prevented the channel from showing both seasons three and six, as BBC starts the sixth season run at the beginning of November.

Fans of the recent season, luckily, have the recent video box sets to watch, to see the events of the past year, but viewers without the sets will have to wait until November 7th to see the BBC episodes.
Thanks to/source: James Bugle

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10/08/02
Buffy is due to begin Season Seven on UPN on Tuesday, September 24th 2002 at 8pm. It is no longer followed by Roswell, which received cancellation last season.

Angel is set to return to The WB on Sunday, October 6th 2002. The show has a new day but the same time and network. It follows fellow supernatural show Charmed.

Firefly Joss' new sci-fi project starts its first season on Friday 20th September 2002 at 8pm on FOX. The season will begin with the infamous premiere episode which has been through many rewrites and refilming, due to FOX executives' disappointment. 

Thanks to/source: James Bugle

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10/08/02
SciFi.com interviewed Firefly creator Joss Whedon to try and get some news on the new show. Whedon (pictured right) was happy to talk about his new sci-fi western project.

"I unfortunately have never seen Farscape or Andromeda or the shows of sci-fi I'm accused of ripping off. Somebody said, 'Oh, the show is clearly exactly like Farscape, where a guy falls through (space) and ends up on a living ship with a bunch aliens.' " laughed the creator. "I was like, 'Oh, why they're indistinguishable. [laughs] Why it's practically ... I've written the same thing!' [laughs] I was just shocked by that."

"We based a lot of things on the Civil War and sort of the 1880s stylistically. We mixed it up with a lot of different cultures. There're a lot of Chinese in their outfits and their culture and their language. Every working-class sort of American-seeming person speaks Chinese as well, because these are the two big powers."

On the subject of the mindless savages, Joss said they are a lot less complicated. "You see them and you run. They're not monsters. What they are, are people who went out into space, saw the extraordinary nothingness and went completely out of their heads. They've become cannibalistic marauding savages. They're kind of like the Comanche in the old movies except without playing it as a racial thing at all, or even a cultural thing."

Thanks to/source: Logan1976/SciFi.com

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