Don't believe everything you read on the Web
about upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes:
Producers told SCI FI Wire that they've been planting bogus
spoilers for a while now. "That's the fun part," Buffy
executive producer Martin Noxon said in an interview.
"Because we got sort of savvy, ... and also we're trying
to track down where the genuine leaks were, so
there's stuff out there that's pure hokum."<br><br>Noxon
said that portions of Buffy scripts that have appeared
on the Ain't It Cool News Web site are pages sent to
casting directors, which end up in the hands of actors
auditioning for roles on the show. But other spoilers are
fabricated--including one last year that James Marsters' character,
Spike, would be killed off and that Marsters himself
would be working on a feature film for Sixth Sense
director M. Night Shyamalan.<br><br>Still, Buffy creator
Joss Whedon expressed exasperation at the genuine
leaks. "There's some accuracy there; luckily, not total
accuracy, because that would be annoying," Whedon said in
an interview. "But we have a lot of leaks. We've had
horrible leaks on Angel, and I resent it, but there's
nothing I can do about it at this point. It doesn't
affect what we're going to do. ... And enough of them
are wrong that there's a safety factor. ... I feel so
strongly ... about the concept of surprise being so
important. ... This desire for insider knowledge is so
overwhelming with people, and I'm not sure why." Buffy
premieres on UPN on Oct. 9.