The Vampire Diaries stars Nina Dobrev as Elena, Paul Wesley as Stefan, Ian Somerhalder as Damon, Katerina Graham as Bonnie, Candice Accola as Caroline, Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy, Zach Roerig as Matt, Sara Canning as Jenna, and Michael Trevino as Tyler.
Ratings For "Unpleasantville" - The Vampire Diaries Scores!
Although the numbers for The Vampire Diaries may appear to be low in the charts, the show scored highly and beat most of its competition in key demographics.
Ratings for the return episode of The Vampire Diaries were down a little for this week but hopefully they will improve once people start to realize the show is back.
Here's the overnight ratings breakdown (Source: TVByTheNumbers):
Rank
Show
Network
Rating (in millions of viewers)
#1
Bones
FOX
11.84
#2
The Big Bang Theory (R) (8:30-9)
CBS
7.48
#3
The Deep End (Series Premiere)
ABC
7.07
#4
The Big Bang Theory (R) (8-8:30)
CBS
6.90
#5
Community (8-8:30)
NBC
4.73
#6
Parks and Recreation (8:30-9)
NBC
4.35
#7
The Vampire Diaries
The CW
3.69
(R) denotes repeat airing
POSTED JANUARY 19, 2010
"Children Of The Damned" Images!
The CW has released 24 images from the Feb. 4 episode of The Vampire Diaries!
The Vampire Diairies was honored this year with a People's Choice Award for Best New TV Drama.
Televised by CBS, the Awards were based on votes from actual viewers. Congratulations to the crew and cast of The Vampire Diaries on your well-deserved win!
POSTED JANUARY 4, 2010
The CW's Official Description For "Bloodlines"
The CW has released an official spoilery description for "Bloodlines," the January 21 episode of The Vampire Diaries.
TVD Cast Members & Merchandise To Show Up At Hot Topic Stores
Hot Topic stores are now carrying Vampire Diaries t-shirts and merchandise, and to tie in with that, cast members will be making personal appearances at select Hot Topic stores.
Thus far, planned appearances include January 23 in Atlanta, Georgia; January 30 in Paramus, NJ; and February 13 in Los Angeles, California.
E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos has revealed that when The Vampire Diaries returns on January 21, Mia Kirshner (The L Word) will be guest starring as someone with a relation to another important character.
Spoiler warning: Matt Mitovich of Fancast.com has revealed that Gina Torres of Firefly, Angel, and Alias fame will be appearing in the first return episode of The Vampire Diaries as a "past" associate of Damon's who happens to be "a bit of a witch."
TVGuide.com has just posted a new interview with Kayla Ewell (Vicki). In it, she talks about what has gone down for her character in recent episodes and what's coming up in the future, including a big spoiler about a new character who is coming in to the series.
Surprising no one, multiple sources including Michael Ausiello, Matt Mitovich, and The Hollywood Reporter have revealed The CW has formally picked up nine more episodes for The Vampire Diaries' first season, taking it to 22 episodes.
The network has also ordered five more episodes of Melrose Place, bringing their first season total to 18 episodes.
POSTED OCTOBER 16, 2009
Ian Somerhalder Signs For Cradlewood
Moviehole has revealed that Ian Somerhalder (Damon) will be spending his post-season hiatus in Australia next year filming a "gothic fairytale" known as Cradlewood.
Filming starts in April, and tells the story of "a young man whose new beau hides a baffling, disconcerting secret."
The CW has released new advertising art for The Vampire Diaries. This piece features Damon, and, it wouldn't be surprising if "Elena" and "Stefan" variations come later.
Caleb Garcia's review for the second episode of The Vampire Diaries has now been posted.
(Full disclosure: Caleb sent this in A WEEK AGO, and with all of the craziness of TV premieres, Craig is just now posting this today. So, blame Craig for the delay - not the punctual reviewer Caleb.)
Thanks to TVD music supervisor Chris Mollere, here's a list of the music heard on Thursday night's episode, in order of appearance. Check them out and support these artists!
TV MoJoe has revealed that the CW has ordered nine more scripts for The Vampire Diaries, bringing the Season One total to 22.
Although they have not officially ordered nine more episodes, the order of scripts makes a full-season order seem inevitable.
The Vampire Diaries has been the network's best performer in the ratings, and seems poised to be a big hit for The CW.
POSTED SEPTEMBER 20, 2009
Read The Books That Inspired the TV Show!
A sighting at the local bookstore prompted this post...
HarperCollins is re-releasing the classic Vampire Diaries books by L.J. Smith with all-new covers showing imagery from the TV series. The first two re-releases came out August 25 and can be found in bookstores everywhere as well as Amazon.com.
Check them out! Who knows, there might be some spoilers for upcoming episodes within.
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Thanks to TVD music supervisor Chris Mollere, here's a list of the music heard on Thursday night's episode, in order of appearance. From the list you can also purchase the MP3 tracks and/or CD's via Amazon.com. Check them out and support these artists!
Missed The Vampire Diaries? See It On iTunes or Amazon Unbox For Free!
Did you miss The Vampire Diaries pilot in one of The CW's three airings?
No worries!
They have made the pilot episode available (at least temporarily) on both iTunes and Amazon Unbox. From there you can also subscribe to the series (for a fee).
Here are the necessary places to find the episode:
Caleb S. Garcia reviews the pilot episode of The Vampire Diaries and does some analysis comparing it to some of those other big vampire franchises as well as other series from The CW stable.
The CW's Friday night encore of The Vampire Diaries scored with a little over 2 million viewers... quite impressive considering the network's all-new premiere of Melrose Place on Tuesday ended up with only 2.27 million.
Perhaps the network should take this as a hint that it would be a good idea to run TVD encores on Friday on a regular basis. It would certainly pair well with Smallville as a lead-in, and it'd be a lot nicer match than the Top Model repeats the CW has planned.
On the subject of repeats - if you missed The Vampire Diaries the first two times, The CW is airing it yet again on Sunday night, Sept. 13. And remember you can talk about the episode on our forum!
POSTED SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
So What Did You Think Of The Vampire Diaries Premiere?
It was the moment some have been waiting 15 years for... tonight, September 10, at 8PM, the CW aired the first episode of the television series The Vampire Diaries. If you saw it, what did you think?
For those of you who may be new to this website and unfamiliar with the show, here's how The CW describes it:
Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, “Degrassi: The Next Generation”) and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, “Everwood”), are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her grief from the world.
Elena and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna (Sara Canning, “Smallville”), who is doing her best to be a surrogate parent. Elena manages to find some comfort with her familiar social circle – best friend Bonnie (Katerina Graham, “17 Again”), frenemy Caroline (Candice Accola, “Juno”), and former boyfriend Matt (Zach Roerig, “Friday Night Lights”), but Jeremy is on a more dangerous path, hanging out with the stoners and using drugs to hide his pain. Jeremy is also trying to figure out why Matt’s sister, Vicki (Kayla Ewell, “The Bold and The Beautiful“), is suddenly rejecting him and hanging out with Jeremy’s rival, Tyler (Michael Trevino, “Cane”).
As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley, “Fallen”). Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, although Elena is puzzled by Stefan’s increasingly bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her parents are buried. What she doesn’t realize is that Stefan is hiding a dark, deadly secret of his own – the fact that he’s a vampire. At a bonfire party the next night, Elena and Stefan are just getting to know each other when chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding from a savage bite to the neck.
Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns home and finds his older brother, Damon (Ian Somerhalder, “Lost”), whom he hasn’t seen for 15 years. Damon is also a vampire, and the two brothers have a long and bitter history.
Damon ridicules Stefan for rejecting their legacy of violence and brutality, but he understands his brother’s obsession with Elena, since she looks exactly like a woman Stefan loved more than a century ago; a woman that Damon tried to make his own. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for Elena’s soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of Mystic Falls, Virginia.
Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Alloy Entertainment and Bonanza Productions Inc in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson
(“Scream,” “Dawson’s Creek”), Julie Plec (“Kyle XY,” “Wasteland”), Leslie Morgenstein (“Gossip Girl,” “Private”) and Bob Levy (“Gossip Girl,” “Privileged”). Marcos Siega (“Dexter”) directed the pilot.
The CW also created biographies of each of the show's actors, for those curious:
A gallery of images can be found here at VampireSite.net, and you can find our Vampire Diaries forum over at the KryptonSite Forums. Either way... welcome to the site. Hope you like it.
POSTED SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
TV Guide Magazine Shows Us What We Already Knew: The Vampire Diaries Cast Is Pretty
TV Guide Magazine's annual Fall Preview issue is now out, and within it is a very nice picture of the three leads of The Vampire Diaries.
Join Us On The KryptonSite Forum To Talk About The Vampire Diaries!
Already in anticipation for The Vampire Diaries we have launched a special TVD sub-forum on the KryptonSite Forums. Inside you can find General Discussion, Spoiler Discussion, Creative Endeavors and more.
The very first thing created and launched for VampireSite.net was our gallery of official-released images from the series premiere. If you haven't checked it out yet, take a look!
"Fool Me Once" Preview Images!
Talk About This Week's Vampire Diaries!
"Children Of The Damned" Images!
Images From The Television Critics Association Press Tour!
The CW's Official Description For "Bloodlines"
TVD Cast Members & Merchandise To Show Up At Hot Topic Stores
Gina Torres Guest Stars In Episode #11
Images From "The Turning Point"
TVGuide.com Interviews Kayla Ewell
New Promotional Ad Artwork
Ian Somerhalder Signs For Cradlewood
New Promotional Ad Artwork
"Alaric Saltzman" Is Cast
"Night Of The Comet" Music!
Missed The Vampire Diaries? See It On iTunes or Amazon Unbox For Free!
The Vampire Diaries "Pilot" Review
Vampire Diaries Sept. 11 Repeat Scores
TV Guide Magazine Shows Us What We Already Knew: The Vampire Diaries Cast Is Pretty
The Vampire Diaries Gallery @ VampireSite.net