After weeks of uncertainly for Joss Whedon, the influential Ain't It Cool news site are the first to claim that Angel will be renewed for a fifth season.
"The switchboard has been lighting up all Tuesday night with news from lesser sources that the WB finally decided to slide Angel off the bubble and into a fifth-season renewal," they announced.
The site reports that Tim Minear's fourth season finale script, "is an amazing knee-slapper, and spins the show into a wholly unexpected direction."
It also claims that several of the best writers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly are expected to migrate to the show, "transforming the franchise into a Mutant Enemy supershow."
We will be checking with our own sources at Fox today, and hope to have more news on this later in the week.
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