The Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is a bad idea – that television sorely needs The cult supernatural series is tipped to return, with the involvement of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
The Zuckermans worked under Whedon on his now-mostly-forgotten Marvel series Agents of SHIELD, and – more significantly – served as showrunners of the Columbo-inspired Natasha Lyonne detective series Poker Face (set to return for season two later this year).
It may be nostalgia that makes the idea seem appealing – not just nostalgia for the specific world of Buffy, but nostalgia for an entire way of making television, an artform that has, in the intervening years, mutated beyond recognition.
Other than a few wispy strands of narrative continuity, the TV series started from scratch, opting for an entirely different tone, and reshaping Buffy into a far more interesting lead.
Many of the series’ most popular episodes – season four’s “Hush”, told without spoken dialogue, or season six’s musical episode “Once More, With Feeling” – were only possible because of the show’s storytelling structure.
