The WB’s “Angel” is calling it quits after this season, the show’s fifth.
“I can tell you that it’s real, that it makes [series co-creator Joss] Whedon and myself very sad, that we wish it had kept going, and we thought it was only getting better,” said David Greenwalt, who co-created the series.
“We just wish it could have gone on forever. Apparently, it’s not going to,” Greenwalt added.
The news comes on the heels of airing the 100th episode of the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” spinoff, the taping of which was marked by a party on the show’s set in November.
On Wednesday, “Angel” airs one of its most innovative episodes, called “Smile Time.” Written and directed by Ben Edlund (“The Tick”), and based on an idea by Whedon, it sees the show’s title character, a crusading vampire with a soul, forced to fight evil after being transformed into a walking puppet (voiced by series star David Boreanaz).
“It’s one of the finest pieces of filmmaking I’ve ever seen. It just cracked me up,” Greenwalt said.
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