Dawn Mum On Buffy Spoilers

From SciFiWire - May 8th, 2001

Michelle Trachtenberg--little sister Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer--doesn't like spoilers, and won't give any away about the show's upcoming fifth-season finale, its 100th episode, TV Guide Online reported. The finale airs May 22 on The WB.

"I was a huge Buffy fan myself [even before getting cast], and I would go on the Internet a lot," Trachtenberg told TV Guide. "But I'd always stray from Web sites that revealed any information prior to the airing of the episode. Like in the third season, when Buffy stabbed Angel. ... If I'd read that he dies, I would have been expecting it, and it would have ruined it for me. So I will not speak of any occurrences in the Buffy world."

In related news, The Hollywood Reporter said that News Corp.--the parent of Buffy production studio 20th Century Fox TV--extended its station affiliation agreement with UPN in a deal that UPN parent company Viacom's president and chief operating officer Mel Karmazin said was tied to UPN's acquisition of Buffy from The WB. But News Corp. sources denied to the trade paper that the extension was connected to UPN's two-season Buffy pickup. The extension is believed to cover the term of the Buffy deal, which runs through the 2002-'03 season, the trade paper reported.