Details of the last episode of Angel.

Fans will be disappointed to hear that Sarah Michelle Gellar will not be reprising her role of Buffy Summers in the final episode of Angel.

Gellar was reportedly asked to appear in the penultimate episode which airs in the US on May 5th, but she was working on her upcoming supernatural movie The Grudge at the time.

She was free to appear in the finale, due to be screened on May 19th, but Angel executive producer Joss Whedon, talking to TV Guiide explained that he didn't want the send-off to "revolve around a guest star."

He said: "We will deal with the issue of Buffy and how much she means to Angel and Spike, but I want to end the show with the people who've been in the trenches together, the characters who have lived and occasionally died together - the regulars."

The penultimate episode will reportedly resolve the Angel-Spike-Buffy triangle, though Gellar won't appear, producers revealed.

Executive producer Jeffrey Bell said: "Angel and Spike arrive at an understanding. That's all I'll say about that. And without her being involved, Buffy's character has come to some sort of understanding, too."