Common Censor

Executives of the WB had worried that if another instance of teen violence had sprung up, ''Buffy'' might have been scapegoated just like the film ''The Basketball Diaries'' was after Columbine. ''I didn't agree that it needed to be postponed,'' Whedon tells EW Online, ''but I didn't think the WB's reasons were spurious.'' Still, Whedon believes the climate that has caused TV and movie execs to worry about shielding impressionable young viewers doesn't apply to ''Buffy.'' ''I think children SHOULD be protected... from psychotic children whose parents don't know they're building bombs in their garage,'' he says. ''I don't think they need to be protected from the WB on Tuesday nights at 8.''