Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Ripper RIP?

Mooted Buffy spin-off may have a future says Anthony Stewart Head.

The latest issue of Buffy Magazine features an interview with Anthony Stewart Head.

Buffy’s former Watcher revealed some exciting news about Ripper, the possible Giles spin-off.

"We still talk about [Ripper]. Joss came over to Britain to see the shows I was doing, Pirates of Penzance and Peter Pan, and Alyson’s When Harry Met Sally, so we all went out together a couple of times. He has an idea that I thought would work very well. It means the project is still alive - still something that Joss wants to do. He wants to make a two-hour TV movie."

Head also talks about providing the voice of Giles in the new pilot for Buffy: Animated.

"It was great fun doing the voicing with Joss and Jeph [Loeb] on the other end of the phone line... I wondered how I would play it, and whether it would be different just playing the voice. It wasn’t - I just put the glasses on and there he was. I’ve read between six and eight scripts [for Buffy: Animated] and they are very funny. It’s got a different feel from what one has seen before."

Head also talks to the Magazine about his recent work, starring in Peter Pan and The Pirates of Penzance in London’s West End.

"I definitely enjoyed the experience - it was a very good company and a very young company. It was fun, and I really looked forward to doing it each night. It was bizarre - I used to come off every night just thinking, ’when can I do that again?’"

Buffy Magazine issue 63 is out on Thursday.