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An article at E! Online spells the future of Angel in no uncertain terms:

Angel is not coming back. At least not as the weekly TV series we now know and love. It sucks, and it’s wretched and wrong. But the sooner we all accept that, the sooner we can move on … the WB suits aren’t changing their minds on Angel… Frog net insiders tell me the higher-ups feel strongly that Angel had “limited moneymaking potential,” due to limited advertising revenue and what they consider to be a substantial budget. The fan base is clearly devoted, but these bigwigs see little hope of that audience expanding… UPN and Fox have both passed on Angel. UPN has a strict new edict not to pick up “other networks’ scraps”… [the Save Angel Campaign] “may not have saved the show,” David Boreanaz explained, “but what it does for the entire cast and crew is give us a little pop as we go out. Everyone takes notice that we connected well enough with the audience to give them that passion… to see everyone really going out of their way to try and save it, it just feels really, really good. So, big warm vampire fuzzies over here. It really took the sting out of getting canceled.”… Still, the best news is this: According to sources, the finale is supremely open-ended (Amy says it “opens new doors” and “doesn’t tie up any strings”), and I hear the Powers That Be at the WB have approached Joss Whedon about doing at least a movie-of-the-week or two (possibly as many as six) next season–thanks in large part to the folks at Save Angel. “I think a Buffy movie, or an Angel movie-of-the-week is more likely to happen now,” James said, “and they may be given better budgets, seeing this kind of interest, because there’s a feeling that there’s a guaranteed audience. So, the effort that I’ve seen, it is not in vain.”… [Sara Michelle Gellar] truly wanted to guest but couldn’t make it back in time for episode 21, because she was shooting a movie in Japan and had commitments to Scooby-Doo.

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Previous GeekRoar.com articles on the topic:

March 16, 2004: Film Roar: Some encouraging news for Angels Fans

February 16, 2004: Film Roar: Season 5 of Angel to be the Last

For a history of the Save Angel campaign visit: SAVING ANGEL - A Fandom Campaign to Save Angel: The Series with the beautiful slogan “We will follow Angel to Hell… or another network.