Joss Whedon is talking more about his new BBC spinoff series of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," hoping that Anthony Stewart Head's character of Giles will return to more classical routes of British folklore.

"I think of it as, the people who live ther, it's all very isolated, and the demons that they've brought upon themselves ... that are most important in their lives," Whedon said at the International Comic-Con in San Diego. "[Giles] himself has been gone for many years. He was surrounded by a defacto family that he no longer has. And [he is] sort of picking up his life all alone, and then getting involved in sort of the underbelly of other people's lives, and sort of finding out about them.

"Loneliness is what I think of. It may not be the theme so much as the emotional intent of the series, but that's what really attracts me to it the most."

The series has yet to be green-lighted by the BBC, but Whedon said he was working out a deal for a six-episode miniseries with the European network. The pilot is scheduled to begin shooting in the spring, and depending on how well the show does abroad, there's a good chance the spinoff will find its way to the United States.