Here’s What The Cast Of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” Looks Like Now
1. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy
You know this girl. After kicking vampire butt, she’s never disappeared. She made a fairly high-profile comeback these past couple years when she executive produced and starred in The CW show Ringer, which ran for one season only. Her next TV project, The Crazy Ones, also got canceled. Oh well, on to the next thing, right?
2. Nicholas Brendon as Xander
Post-Sunnydale, Brendon continued TV work. He played a pastry chef on Kitchen Confidential, was in a bunch of episodes of Private Practice, and has been a recurring character on Criminal Minds since 2007.
3. Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia
Charisma Carpenter, aside from having the best name in the world, appears to have not aged a day. You’ve seen her alllll over the TVs since Buffy. She went straight into the Buffy spin-off Angel and then popped up in places like Greek, The Lying Game, and Burn Notice. She’s also the host of an Investigation Discovery Series called Surviving Evil, “showcasing inspiring women who fought back against their attackers.”
4. Anthony Head as Giles
Giles! So smart. So wise. So protective. You were the best. After Buffy, Head mainly stuck to British TV, with roles on Little Britain, Monarch of the Glen, Hotel Babylon, and Dr. Who.
5. James Marsters as Spike
No longer a platinum blonde bad boy vamp, James Marsters has moved on with his TV and music (!) career. He’s had three solo albums since 2005. He was, as you already know, a part of Angel, and had recurring roles on Smallville, Without a Trace, Torchwood, Caprica, and Hawaii Five–0.
6. Alyson Hannigan as Willow
Where would the Scooby Gang have been without Willow? But Alyson Hannigan moved on from Buffy with much grace. You already know this, but just to say it: American Pie, How I Met Your Mother.
7. Seth Green as Oz
Oh my gosh, Seth Green. You’ve been on, like, every show at least once. One recent project you probably heard about was Dads, a Fox show which was canceled after one season.
8. Emma Caulfield as Anya
Caulfield is probably best known for her role on Buffy, as a confused ex-demon. You may have seen her in a 2009 indie film called TiMER (it’s pretty cute and is on Netflix).
9. David Boreanaz as Angel
Angellllll unnggghhhnnnngh. Thank god this sexy vamp never went away. He just turned into a sexy FBI agent on Bones.
10. Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn
Buffy’s little sister’s moved on to some high-profile TV roles after her time on the show — she played Georgina Sparks (a manipulative Upper East Sider) on Gossip Girl and had a main role on the short-lived Mercy.
11. Kristine Sutherland as Joyce
Buffy’s mom post-show credits include two films: The Cat Returns (2002) and The Perfect Wedding (2012).
12. Eliza Dushku as Faith
Dushku played the troublesome slayer, Faith, and she reprised this role for a bit in Angel. She’s been amazingly successful, with roles on shows Tru Calling, Dollhouse not to mention a ton of guest appearances and movies galore.
13. Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Landau, who played Spike’s cruel yet weirdly child-like vamp girlfriend, also came back on Angel. After that, she did several episodes of Ben 10: Alien Force. She’s also had roles in a bunch of direct-to-video superhero movies.
14. Bianca Lawson as Kendra
She was only on for a few episodes, but what an impression Kendra — another vampire slayer with a weird Jamaican (sort of Jamaican?) accent — made. She’s become a total star with a recurring role on Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries, and Pretty Little Liars.
15. Amber Benson as Tara
Benson played Tara, a witch who appeared in Season 4, who became a love interest to Willow. Benson has a very impressive resume post-Buffy, having directed/produced/starred in two of her own films. She’s also created a series of role playing games called Ghosts of Albion.
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Arbitrator orders Fox to pay $179M to ‘Bones’ stars
https://triblive.com/features/celebrity-news/arbitrator-orders-fox-to-pay-179m-to-bones-stars/An arbitrator has ordered 21st Century Fox to pay $179 million in a dispute over profits with the stars of the long-running TV show “Bones,” saying Fox executives engaged in “intentional fraud and malice.”
The decision was reached earlier this month and revealed in a court petition from the plaintiffs Wednesday demanding that Fox pay, a decision Fox said it would contest.
Arbitrator Peter Licthman, a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge, rebuked top Fox executives by name for self-dealing and deceit and his decision includes $128 million in punitive damages, calling the sum “reasonable and necessary to punish Fox for its reprehensible conduct and deter it from future wrongful conduct.”
The overall figure is among the largest ever for a dispute over a television show and comes in a case that shines a light on finances within Hollywood conglomerates.
Lichtman said that Fox executives “engaged in a pattern and practice of fraudulent self-dealing by which it enriched itself” at the expense of the “Bones” producers and stars, who were owed a cut of profits.
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, the stars of “Bones” in its run from 2005 through 2017, sued 21st Century Fox in 2015, saying it denied them profits by licensing the show to Fox’s TV division and to Hulu for below-market rates. They were joined by executive producer Barry Josephson and Kathy Reichs, who authored the novels “Bones” is based on. The case went to private arbitration in 2016.
“We are so proud of the hard work we did on Bones for 12 seasons and only ever wanted Fox to live up to its promises and contractual obligations,” Deschanel said in a statement.
Boreanaz added in his own statement that “it’s clear that what we were saying all along was true: we were owed additional compensation for our work.”
Fox denounced the decision and vowed to fight it.
“The ruling by this private arbitrator is categorically wrong on the merits and exceeded his arbitration powers,” the company said in a statement. “Fox will not allow this flagrant injustice, riddled with errors and gratuitous character attacks, to stand and will vigorously challenge the ruling in a court of law.”
Among Lichtman’s findings were that Fox studio executives did not even attempt to try to find the true market value for shows similar to “Bones” when negotiations were going on with the Fox network.
He said that Fox sacrificed the Fox studio’s business for the sake of Hulu’s success, with the network handing over rights to “Bones” for a share of ad revenue that would not be shared with the studio. That hurt the haul of the producers.
Those parts of the ruling were making waves in Hollywood on Wednesday, with trade papers speculating what it might mean for other studios that have stakes in different entities that do business with each other.
“What we have exposed in this case is going to profoundly change the way Hollywood does business for many years to come,” said John Berlinski, attorney for the plaintiffs.
Lichtman also slammed what he called the “cavalier attitude” of the Fox executives who testified.
“None of the witnesses took responsibility or expressed any remorse for their actions,” the decision said, adding that the executives “appear to have given false testimony in an attempt to conceal their wrongful acts.”
Some of the executives Lichtman called out by name, including Peter Rice and Dana Walden, are headed to Disney as part of its $71.3 billion takeover of most of Fox.
Disney CEO Bob Iger said he stood by his soon-to-be colleagues.
“Peter Rice and Dana Walden are highly respected leaders in this industry, and we have complete confidence in their character and integrity,” Iger said in a statement on Wednesday. “Disney had no involvement in the arbitration, and we understand the decision is being challenged and will leave it to the courts to decide the matter.”
