VampireDiaries-related stories
Posted Oct 15th 2009 9:03AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free, True Blood, Vampire Diaries
Vampires aren't scary anymore. They haven't been for a while.
Anne Rice saw to that while she was making her fortune turning vampires into the kind of delicate camp caricatures you see hosting cooking shows on Bravo. It's continued through
Twilight and every
Twilight clone coming down the pipe. Still,
Twilight can build it's own Federal Reserve Bank now, and no one gives a cuss what I think.
Now, I've officially typed the word "Twilight" way more than I wanted to today, and I need to get to the point. So, vampires will be the cause celebre of
Spike TV's 4th Annual "Scream.," Tuesday, October 27 at 10 PM ET/PT.
Continue reading Spike TV's Scream special celebrates our nation's vampires
Posted Sep 25th 2009 10:29PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cancellations, Reality-Free, Vampire Diaries
The cancel hammer fell faster this season than I expected. After only two episodes, even The CW's lower ratings expectations couldn't save
The Beautiful Life. The real reason
The CW canceled The Beautiful Life: TBL is right there in the title. How pretentious do you have to be to put your acronym in your title?
Acronyms are earned. Acronyms like
OTH,
VD and
MP. Those stand for shows that are doing much better for The CW. The network has tossed a
full season order to the veteran One Tree Hill. They came a little short of that with
The Vampire Diaries, ordering nine more scripts, but a full-season pick-up can't be far behind. While
TBL slipped to one million,
VD achieved 3.8 million and growing.
As for
Melrose Place, it's not doing nearly as well, but The CW is maybe hoping that Heather Locklear can save this iteration the way she did the original. I'm not so sure, but they've got six more scripts to prove their case.
Posted Aug 4th 2009 8:28PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
The CW's TCA panels today were full of beautiful people. It seemed like all the shows were about young pretty things in scandalous situations. Even the highly-anticipated
Vampire Diaries didn't look much different, except some of the over-sexed high schoolers were vampires. But one show shined through the pretty clutter in the CW's new slate. Too bad we won't see it until early 2010.
That show is
Life Unexpected, which CW programming head Dawn Ostroff described as "
Juno meets
Gilmore Girls." After seeing the pilot, I can agree with that description. It's sweet, warm, even a little bit hokey. In fact, it feels like a show that would have been on the old WB network. What the heck is it doing on the CW?
Continue reading CW wrap-up: Vampire Diaries, Melrose Place, Life Unexpected - TCA Report
Posted Aug 4th 2009 4:16PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Smallville, TCA Press Tour, Reality-Free
It's CW day at the TCAs, and network honcho Dawn Ostroff presented her executive session in the middle of the day, after a parade of panels that included one pretty face after another, including Ashton Kutcher, Elle Macpherson, the cast of
Vampire Diaries and a few alumni from the original
Melrose Place. Ostroff fully admitted that the network is courting 35-and-under women with their shows, trying to build on the "one tweet per minute" success of shows like
One Tree Hill,
Gossip Girl, and
90210.But what about two of the network's more veteran and male-oriented shows,
Smallville and
Supernatural? Does the network still believe in them? Ostroff tried to give a definitive "yes," but the rest of her panel, and the promos shown before she appeared, say otherwise.
Continue reading CW exec hopes Smallville and Supernatural have long futures. Really - TCA Report
Posted Mar 1st 2009 1:10PM by Jane Boursaw
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Programming, OpEd, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Casting, Reality-Free
I'm neck-deep in the midst of a vampire obsession. I'm
one of the Twi-hards eagerly awaiting the Nov. 20 release of Stephenie Meyer's next vamp-flick,
New Moon. I was immediately sucked into HBO's
True Blood, and can't wait for its return in May.
I recently sped through the short-lived
Moonlight and fell in love with Mick St. John. And its taken me all of about a week to get to season three of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (though I don't know if I can take much more of the on again-off again romance of Buffy and Angel - don't tell me how it plays out).
I'm sure I'll be equally enthralled with
The CW pilot, Vampire Diaries. It doesn't hurt that
Steven R. McQueen, grandson of the legendary Steve McQueen has landed a lead role. I bet even those not as enamored with vamps will tune in just to see him: Does he look like his grandfather? Act like him? Have the same "something"?
Continue reading Vampire Diaries snags Steve McQueen's grandson
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