‘Buffy’ said to be ending; now, as for a spinoff ...

Stick a stake in it: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” is done.

After seven years, the series will be over at the end of this season, said its star, Sarah Michelle Gellar.

“ ‘Buffy,’ in this incarnation, is over,” Gellar told Entertainment Weekly magazine for its March 7 issue. The series will wrap up with a five-part story, which will include the return of slayer and bad girl Faith and Buffy’s first love, Angel.

But the show may come back to life in some form: Its creator, Joss Whedon, is planning a spinoff that may include some “Buffy” cast members. It will be pitched first to UPN, “Buffy’s” home for the last two seasons; for five seasons before that, it was on the WB.