And as if there haven't already been enough recycled media brands pushed to the movie screen in recent years, AOL Time Warner's Warner Bros. will bring a live-action version of the Scooby-Doo mystery cartoons, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame.

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To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Last season Bebe (pronounced BEE-bee) nabbed Sarah Michelle Gellar, star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and idol of American teenage girls.

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The Avengers, which sees a team of Marvel comic-book heroes team up to fight an extra-terrestrial threat, was directed and co-written by Joss Whedon, creator of the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

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" FOX also brings to Prime members a selection of popular TV series including "24, " "The X-Files, " "NYPD Blue, " "Arrested Development, " "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, " "Ally McBeal, " and newly available on digital video, "The Wonder Years.

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