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With the long-gestating Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV reboot on indefinite hold, fans of the cult vampire drama are getting an audio offshoot, Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, centered around James Marsters’ character Spike. A number of other original cast members, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield Ford, Amber Benson, James Charles Leary, Danny Strong, will also make a return for the Audible series, which will premiere Oct. 12.

The original series’ titular star, Sarah Michelle Gellar, who has ruled out an involvement in the potential Buffy reboot, is not part of Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, which is set in an alternate reality where Buffy Summers never existed.

Written by original cast member Amber Benson alongside writer Christopher Golden, and directed by Benson, Golden, and Kc Wayland, Slayers: A Buffyverse Story picks up 10 years after the events of the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which aired more than 20 years ago,...

Anya Jenkins may be dead, but come October, you’re going to be hearing a lot from the former vengeance demon.

In Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, Emma Caulfield will voice her Buffy the Vampire Slayer character Anya alongside her former costars James Marsters (Spike), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia), Anthony Head (Giles), Juliet Landau (Drusilla), Amber Benson (Tara), James Charles Leary (Clem) and Danny Strong (Jonathan). The audio-only story hits Audible on Oct. 12, and as teased by Caulfield on Instagram Wednesday, her character is going to play a big part of the Spike-centric story to come.

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The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is joining forces once again for a new story centered around James Marsters’ beloved villain-turned-sorta-Scooby, Spike, TVLine has learned.

Slayers: A Buffyverse Story will be set 20 years after the series finale with Marsters reprising his role alongside Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia), Anthony Head (Giles), Juliet Landau (Drusilla), Emma Caulfield (Anya), Amber Benson (Tara), James Charles Leary (Clem) and Danny Strong (Jonathan), as well as Buffyverse newcomer Laya DeLeon Hayes (from CBS’ The Equalizer). The audio-only story premieres Oct. 12 on Audible and will consist of nine episodes.

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Listen up, Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans! Many of the original stars of your favorite television series about kicking vampire ass and taking names are returning for Slayers: A Buffyverse Story, an original audio event set 20 years after the series finale of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. James Marsters is reprising his role as the bleach blond, Billy Idol-like villain-turned-hearthrob Spike, with Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield, Amber Benson, James Charles Leary, and Danny Strong, as well as newcomer Laya DeLeon Hayes.

Entertainment Weekly exclusively revealed on Wednesday that Slayers “begins as Spike has gone deep undercover in Los Angeles, convincing the forces of darkness that he’s back to his evil ways. But when his cover is compromised by 16-year-old Indira Nunnally (Hayes), Spike finds himself on baby-slayer-sitting duty once more. While he attempts to track down a watcher for his eager new protégé, their paths...

Season 2 of We’re Alive: Frontier kicks off on October 16th. For the uninitiated, We’re Alive is a based on the post-apocalyptic podcast of the same name and uses the RPG platform created by Outbreak: Undead. According to Geek & Sundry: “We’re Alive started back in 2009,” said Kc Wayland, creator of the podcast, “We […]

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AMC Networks’ horror streaming service Shudder, in partnership with podcast network The Paragon Collective, debuts “Darkest Night,” a new weekly horror anthology series narrated by renowned actor Lee Pace and written by Chris Bloodworth. The series features performances from actors like Denis O’Hare (“American Horror Story”), Missi Pyle (“The Artist”), RuPaul (“RuPaul’s Drag Race”), Michelle Visage, Ricky Dillon, Kc Wayland, Johnny Ferro, Callie Schuttera, Miguel Lopez and more.

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Each episode of “Darkest Night” will place the listener in a recovered memory of the recently deceased, which slowly reveals a horrifying master plan. Recorded binaurally with cutting-edge technology, “Darkest Night” promises a fully immersive audio experience with sound quality that brings the entire narrative to life for a rich 360-degree, virtual reality effect when listening with headphones.

Shudder is a premium streaming video service that serves both the casual...