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Years after seeing his script for the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer mangled by the director with the resulting film a giant flop, he revived the concept as a television series of the same name. The show has received critical acclaim, with the episode "Hush" receiving an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding writing in a drama series in 2000. Whedon wrote and directed the musical episode entitled "Once More, with Feeling" (also Emmy-nominated), featuring the show's original cast singing the parts.
In 2003 his latest show, Firefly, was canceled by Fox after only 11 episodes, despite fan outrage at its cancellation. Joss announced in early 2004 that his proposal for a Firefly movie was picked up by Universal Studios.
Joss is the son of Tom Whedon, a successful screenwriter for The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and the grandson of John Whedon, a writer for The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s.