{"id":333354,"date":"2026-03-17T04:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T04:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T04:10:08","slug":"buffy-reboot-cancelled-sarah-michelle-gellar-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333354\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Buffy\u2019 reboot cancelled, Sarah Michelle Gellar says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThanks to Chloe, I was reminded how much I love her and how much she means not only to me but to all of you. And this doesn\u2019t change any of that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAnd I promise if the apocalypse actually comes, you can still beep me,\u201d she quipped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">Zhao, whose period piece Hamnet missed out on the best picture Oscar on Sunday, told Variety on the red carpet that she hadn\u2019t been surprised by the project\u2019s cancellation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThings happen for a reason,\u201d Zhao said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI had an incredible time with Sarah, with the whole cast and crew doing this and we, first and foremost, see ourselves as the guardians of the original show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cOur priority has always been to be truthful to the show, and be truthful to our fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"KYEvgaSZnwMMmNilyq\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThanks to Chloe, I was reminded how much I love her and how much she means not only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1558,178742,20703,71038,37637,3936,156,178743,37638,111,139,69,57230,26346,28203,50541,3048,6967,312,82314,2737,1361,73841,72037],"class_list":["post-333354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-been","tag-buffy","tag-cancelled","tag-chloe","tag-directed","tag-director","tag-entertainment","tag-gellar","tag-michelle","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oscarwinning","tag-planned","tag-producer","tag-reboot","tag-said","tag-sarah","tag-says","tag-slayer","tag-star","tag-that","tag-vampire","tag-zhao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}