By Kate O'Hare
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - If it's starting to look a lot like "Buffy" on
NBC's "Miss Match," there might be a reason for that.
One of the show's producers is Gareth Davies, who has worked on all of the
shows created by Joss Whedon: The WB and UPN's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer,"
its spin-off, The WB's "Angel," and the short-lived FOX space opera
"Firefly."
Created by Darren Star ("Sex and the City") and Jeff Rake, "Miss Match" --
which films on the former "Buffy" stages in Santa Monica, Calif. -- stars
Alicia Silverstone ("Clueless") as Kate Fox, a divorce lawyer who moonlights
as a matchmaker.
In "Santa Baby," the episode airing Friday, Dec. 12, at 9 p.m. ET, "Buffy"
and "Angel" star Charisma Carpenter returns for her second episode as the
outspoken Serena Lockley. After spending the last few seasons on the
Paramount lot filming "Angel," Carpenter describes returning to her old
workplace on a totally different show as "surreal."
Then, in a special episode on Monday, Dec. 15, at 9 p.m. ET, called "Who's
Sari Now?", "Firefly" star Nathan Fillion -- who also guest-starred in the
final season of "Buffy" as the evil preacher Caleb -- appears in the first
of two "Miss Match" episodes.
"I'm all for nepotism," he says, calling in between takes while shooting his
second episode, the upcoming "Miss Communication." "Nepotism be praised!
There's a lot of 'Buffy' people here, a lot of 'Firefly' people.
Also, Christina Hendricks did an episode of 'Miss Match,' and she played
Saffron on 'Firefly.'"
Fillion plays Adam Logan, a college buddy of Michael (David Conrad), Kate's
current love interest, and the soon-to-be-ex-husband of Michael's
ex-girlfriend, Lauren (Dina Meyer, "Birds of Prey"), who is Kate's divorce
client. Also guest-starring in the episode is Tariq Kabir, one of the
rejected suitors from the NBC reality show "Average Joe."
"There's no wonder that Alicia is a movie star," Fillion says. "She
sparkles. She sparkles in real life and on screen. She sparkles and sparkles
and sparkles - and she's sweet."
Fillion also isn't surprised that Carpenter is returning. "Because they love
her! I'll tell you why right now. She's gorgeous! Oh my God, she's gorgeous.
I've never met her."
Fillion did get to meet Silverstone's "Miss Match" co-star, film veteran
Ryan O'Neal, who plays her lawyer father.
"We have great chats over lunch," Fillion says. "Boy, that guy is funny. He
told a couple of stories -- nothing I can repeat, actually."
On Dec. 9, just a few days before his "Miss Match" debut, Fillion appears in
his first DVD boxed set, as 20th Century Fox Home Video releases the entire
brief run of "Firefly."
"It feels good," says Fillion, who played spaceship captain Malcolm
Reynolds. "I like that it's still alive."
His "Firefly" co-star, Gina Torres, appeared last season on "Angel," and
there are some actors, including current "Angel" recurring cast member
Jonathan Woodward, who have done all three Whedon shows (Woodward's
"Firefly," called "The Message," never aired but is on the DVD).
At present, Fillion is two for three, and angling for an "Angel" appearance.
"Give me time," he says. "I'm wearing Joss Whedon down with my casual, very
subtle hints, like, 'Boy, wouldn't it be neat to have Caleb on "Angel?" Or
Malcolm on "Angel"? What the hell?'"
Fillion did keep a few "Firefly" souvenirs, including the rubber stunt
replica of his futuristic gun. "The real gun cost, I think, $9,000," he
says. "They didn't want me to keep that."
While the proposed "Firefly" feature film remains in the script stages,
Fillion is optimistic. "I feel I've still got unfinished business with this
show. I don't feel like I had my fill."
_______________________________________________
Sndbox mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://a8.mewebdns-a8.com/mailman/listinfo/sndbox_sandboxmail.net
