Joss Whedon’s cancelled Fox series Firefly just won’t give up.

Jettisoned over two-and-a-half years ago after only 11 episodes, the Sci Fi Channel has bought the exclusive cable rights to the truncated series for a total license fee of $450,000. True fans of the series will be excited to know that the deal includes three episodes that were never aired.

Universal Pictures is scheduled to release the film version of the series titled Serenity on September 30. Whedon wrote and directed the movie which is set six months after the "Objects in Space" episode of the show. Nathan Fillian stars as the ship’s captain.

The Sci Fi run of the show begins July 22nd the Friday 7 p.m. timeslot. That leads into Sci Fi’s successful babysitter block of series: Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica.