Je-Ree, writing at The TV Cave:

After two decades of “maybe next year” and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development. […]

We’re talking about a full-blown return to the Serenity, with the original cast lending their voices to the characters we’ve spent twenty years mourning.

Spoiler alert for a twenty-year-old series:

The genius move here? The series is reportedly a “mid-quel.” By sliding the timeline into the gap between the original 2002 run and the 2005 film Serenity, the writers have pulled off the ultimate narrative heist. This allows Alan Tudyk to return as Wash without any messy “he’s a ghost now” hand-waving. We get the crew at their peak: desperate and perpetually one bad deal away from starvation.

I’m unreasonably excited about the return of Firefly, a show (and movie) I adored. It was my second major television heartbreak after its way-too-soon cancellation (Sports Night being my first). I still haven’t forgiven Fox for jerking the show around the schedule and then unceremoniously dropping it. It’s also the reason I choose to wait for shows to run a few years before I invest my time and emotion. Yes, television has scarred me deeply.