Angel's consulting producer David Greenwalt has hinted at plans for a revamped fifth season of the show he co-created.

It's not yet known if the series will go to a fifth year - it wasn't among the early renewals announced by the WB last week, and no official word is now expected until May. But Greenwalt has obviously been thinking about how the show could go on.

"Most recently," he told the Zap2it web site, "[Producers] Joss, Jeff [Bell], Tim [Minear] and I went to both [producing studio] Fox and The WB to explain the exciting next year for Angel. We're going to revamp the whole show."

One of the possibilities Greenwalt sees for season five is to move beyond the vintage hotel that currently houses Angel and his crew.

"I'm not sure we're going to blow up the hotel," he says, "but the notion is of them going to a place that is more like an advertising agency, lots of glass and light. It's going to be great - visitors from the Buffyverse, including a possible regular from the Buffyverse."

"I think these ideas are so strong that it could run two years. It would be a whole new show. We'd put the characters in a new situation, both financially and physically. It's all about us saying, 'OK, you've been on the Greenpeace ship saying, " Hey, Shell Oil is bad." What happens if you actually have to go work for Shell Oil? What happens if you had to be on the inside, grow up, get a real job?' I'm really excited about it."

"I give Angel a better than 50/50 chance of coming back next year. I think it has a pretty good shot."