Head writer David Fury "guarantees" that if Joss Whedon hadn't requested an early renewal, Angel would've been back for a Season 6:
The only reason that Angel didn't come back...it's a very simple thing. Because our ratings were up, because of our critical attention, Joss specifically asked Jordan Levin, who was the head of The WB at the time, to give us an early pick-up because every năm they [would] wait so long to give Angel a pick-up [and] a lot of us [would] turn down jobs hoping that Angel will continue– he [Joss] didn't want that to happen. So, he was feeling very confident and he [Joss] just asked Jordan, "Like, make your decision now whether you're going to pick us up hoặc not," and Jordan, sort of with his hands tied, with his back up against the wall, called him the tiếp theo ngày and said, "Okay, we're canceling you." Jordan's no longer there and The WB has since recognized...I believe Garth Ancier at The WB đã đưa ý kiến that it was a big mistake to hủy bỏ Angel. There was a power play that happened that just didn't fall out the way they wanted it to. We wanted to get an early pick-up, we didn't. In fact we forced them [the WB] to make a decision, and with his hand forced he [Levin] made the decision to hủy bỏ us. I guarantee that, if we waited as we normally did, bởi the time May had come around they would have picked up Angel. I can guarantee that
though i found this on wiki so it might not be the most reliable nguồn :(
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