The fledgling WB network, however, agreed to a pilot, and while they did not place it on their schedule for the fall of 1996, they did order it to series as a mid-season replacement in the winter of 1997. Although Berman would later be mercilessly castigated for pulling the plug on Firefly when she was head of programming at FOX, the fact is that without her initiative, neither Buffy nor Firefly would ever have been produced.īerman and Whedon took the idea of Buffy to all of the major networks but were rejected by each one. Berman, however, presciently thought that the movie would provide the basis for an excellent series and approached Whedon about the idea. He had, in fact, put Buffy behind him and had gone on to a highly remunerative career as script doctor. Exasperated with changes being made to his script during filming, Whedon eventually left the set and avoided the set during the later stages of filming. In 1992 the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer had been released, based on Joss Whedon’s original screenplay.
Gail Berman was in the mid-1990s looking for new projects to develop for television. Joss Whedon, in fact, was not the instigator.
The story of Buffy the Vampire Slayer becoming a television series is an improbable one.
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