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SciFi.com - The WB's vampire series Angel, which starts its third season at 9 p.m. Sept. 24, will air in widescreen or letterbox format this year, the network announced.

"The format lends itself to the production quality and action sequences
of Angel," executive producer David Greenwalt said in a statement. "Still, viewers who do not have the capacity to view shows in this format will not miss anything and will be able to enjoy the show as they have in the past."

Angel opens the season with an episode entitled "Heartthrob," in which a grief-stricken lover seeks revenge on Angel (David Boreanaz). The episode also marks the introduction of Amy Acker as a new regular castmember.

SciFi.com - David Greenwalt, co-creator of The WB's Angel, told TV Guide Online he'd like to pair the tormented vampire with an earlier creation--Jim Profit, the lead character in Fox's short-lived Profit, which Greenwalt alsoproduced. Adrian Pasdar played the dark character.

"I have a big love of Adrian," Greenwalt told TV Guide. "But right now, Adrian's doing an NBC show [Mysterious Ways], and it's doing very well, so I don't know about availability." Getting the rights to the character might be tricky, too, the site reported. "I'd love to bring him in as a lawyer at Wolfram & Hart," Greenwalt said. "There might be some arc for him to play. We've talked about that for years over here, and I still dream of it." Another Profit alumnus, Keith Szarabajka, has already joined Angel as a vampire hunter.

*BUFFY NEWS* - Sarah Michelle Gellar's father was found dead in his flat in what is thought to be suicide - The 60 year old was estranged from his daughter who is now with her fiance Freddie Prinze Jnr, whose father committed suicide when his son was very young.

SciFi.com - Angel star Charisma Carpenter will play a goth singer in an upcoming episode of VH1's SF anthology series Strange Frequency, the Charisma Carpenter fan Web site reported. Carpenter's character encounters the Grim Reaper at one of her shows in the episode, "Don't Fear the Reaper,"

Christian Kane will play Angelina Jolie's "baseball superstar boyfriend" in "Life, Or Something Like It" and Eliza Dushku will be a main player in the new Kevin Smith film "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"