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Pitching for Animated Buffy

The first question that they asked me was, how did I see the animated series? I thought it was a trick question. I sat quietly, not quite sure what to say. Finally, I figured just say what's on your mind, which was, "Like the show."

Everyone in the room gave a collective sigh of relief and I said, "you're going to have to explain that to me. It's one of the best written shows on television. If you're going to do an animated version, why wouldn't you just do that?" and they said, "Well, you have to understand that we've had lots of pitches. We've heard everything from Buffy Babies to Buffy The Vampire's Friend to 'Buffy goes to England and there she meets a young warlock who's going to school in a castle and he wears glasses and has an owl' (laughs)... that's all fine, but that's not our show."

That was the beginning of what has been almost a year-long love affair. I've never worked in an environment that is both as creatively challenging and as creatively rewarding as this. I don't say this lightly, having worked with a lot of creatively challenging people. There's just something that's just great fun about what we're doing and I think it shows in the work.