The pair started by joking about the show’s premise. For those of you who don’t know, his character was 241 years old.” She also pointedly said that audiences will never know how Buffy and Angel’s love story will end, a terse nod to the pilot to a sequel series that was announced to not have been picked up earlier this year. Gellar also alluded to some recent big losses in the “Buffy” cast in recent years, saying, “David and I would like to acknowledge that it has been a tough two years for our beloved cast and crew, and we feel very lucky to have known and worked with such amazing people.” Nicholas Brendon, who played Buffy’s friend Xander Harris, died in March at 54, and Anthony Head, who played Buffy’s Watcher Rupert Giles on all seven seasons of the show, died in June at 72.
Michelle Trachtenberg, who joined “Buffy” in its fifth season as Buffy’s younger sister Dawn Summers, died in February 2025 at 39. The duo presented the Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a limited or anthology series or movie, which ended up going to Matthew Rhys for “The Beast in Me.” “Buffy” ran for seven seasons, beginning in 1997. Sarah Michelle Gellar starred as Buffy Summers, the titular slayer.
David Boreanaz played love interest Angel in the first three seasons of the original show and made several guest appearances until the finale in 2003. He returned in his own spinoff series, “Angel,” which ran from 1999—2004. A revival at Hulu nearly happened with Gellar returning to mentor a new Slayer, but it was canned earlier this year.
It won for outstanding makeup for a series and outstanding music composition for a series (dramatic underscore), both in 1998. Angel was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for outstanding makeup for a series in 2000, but it lost to “The X-Files.” The 2026 Emmy Awards are presented by Mariska Hargitay, who took home two awards last weekend for her documentary “My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay.”
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