I'm on this show because of the character--this wonderful character. Women in any industry, we all know we're still fighting an uphill battle. And television characters seem to be much more prominent for women. But as a young girl, it's even harder, because most of the time, you're either "the girlfriend of" or "the daughter of" or "the new wife of." With Buffy, she just is. She's this amazing character who's funny and witty and sad and sharp and all those things, and no other job would ever offer me the range I've gotten here over the years. So, that keeps it fresh.

We leave a lot of big gaping holes--for inspiration to hopefully show up at some point--but we map out seasons very specifically, particularly for Buffy. We try to figure out where she'll be. We actually knew what was going to happen at the end of this season in the middle of the third season. And we pretty much know everything that's going to happen in season six already.

Every season has an arc, a sort of unifying theme. Last year it was the liberation of college and how it fractures you as a group and as a person. This year was about family and identity and Buffy being a slayer. And next year I refer to as "Oh, Grow Up." It's about realizing that we're young adults, and now we're making choices like our parents did, and we're just as bad at it as they were.

It's a kids' show, but it's a kids' show I want to watch. It's the mandate we always have, which is to write for yourself. We're starting with year one, except that--and we're not positive, but we're pretty sure--we're going to do year one as though Dawn has always been there. 'Cause we thought it'd be fun to give Buffy a 10-year-old sister. But that's just an idea we're throwing around at this point. A lot of it depends on what happens at the end of this year.

Basically, we want to go back to that sort of innocent, 16-year-old place, where Willow loves Xander, Xander loves Buffy, and Buffy knows this good vampire named Angel. We don't want to get into the extremely adult, complex and bizarrely sexual regions we've come to.

The Crow (DVD): An Alex Proyas commentary track and 90-minutes of behind the scenes footage probably won't see the light of day according to writer David J. Schow check out his official site to find out why.

Thieves made off with four Spider-Man costumes used in the production of Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movie, leading Columbia Pictures on April 4 to post a reward of $25,000 for their return. A studio spokesman would not say how much the signature red-and-blue costumes were worth, but sources have told SCI FI Wire that they cost as much as $65,000 each.

Columbia Pictures--a unit of Sony--has created a hotline for tips leading to the recovery of the costumes: (310) 244-1044.

"The Web sites are not going to go dark," the Fandom spokesman said in an interview. "Fan sites will remain on the Web, and Cinescape Online will continue to operate"

David Hayter, the screenwriter for the X-Men movie, confirmed that he is involved with the sequel.

"There are some things going on with X2 -- the fan community should be excited to know that's our inter-office term for it," Hayter told The Continuum. "I am involved, but we are still not sure what the story is going to be."