“I was fascinated by the idea that, through social media, is how we live our lives these days,” Gellar, whose character, Anne Porter, is a mommy blogger in the novel. “We make all of our assumptions about how people are thinking, feeling and how we validate ourselves through the lens of social media. But no one’s using that as a storytelling device. Why not?”

“I don’t think I could ever be what Selma has gone through, what she shared, the strength she’s given people,” the 42-year-old actress told Us Weekly exclusively while discussing her partnership with Colgate Optic White on Tuesday, September 24. “I guess you don’t really know until you’re faced those situations. But I think about her often.”

I was more a fan of Angel than I was Buffy really, because I could identify more with Angel. That was my favorite of the Whedon-verse on television, for sure.

“I think the truth of any relationship is that, whether you’re a couple, whether you’re friends, whether you’re business partners, is you have to put the work into a relationship,” Gellar, 42, told Us Weekly exclusively on Tuesday. September 24. “We live in a very disposable society and people don’t want to have to work. They want immediate reactions, they want immediate responses. It takes work.”

In the lead up to the Buffy/Angel crossover event Hellmouth, an historic meeting is about to take place. In this week’s pages of Angel from BOOM! Studios writer Bryan Edward Hill retells the entrance of Charles Gunn into the Buffyverse, and it’s as violent as his screen introduction.

BOOM! Studios is starting to build a substantial fantasy world based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise and Angel is playing a massive part in it. Released this week is the dramatic end of Angel’s first story arc and it features a number of recognisable faces.

“We started talking in terms of redemption,” says Whedon. “We realized, while Buffy is about the hero’s journey — that ‘becoming the person you are’ that happens in adolescence — Angel is about dealing with the person you’ve been.” Or, as co-creator Greenwalt, 69, puts it: “Buffy has this wonderful purpose and fights evil, but still wants to go to the prom and get the right dress. Angel is a much darker and, in a sense, more complex character.”

Alyson Hannigan has been cast alongside Ben Schwarts (Parks and Recreation) in an adaptation of Katie DiCamillo’s novel, Flora and Ulysses: The Illumimated Adventures, for…

IT WAS FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THERE WOULD BE PARTS THAT I REALLY WANTED AND THEY WOULD SAY, ‘OH BIANCA LOOKS TOO YOUNG.’ I’M LIKE, ‘RIGHT, BUT I REALLY AM THIS AGE