Posted by Red | January 5, 2010, 20:16 (EST) | 3 Comments
Category: Books, TV Series

Nina Dobrev has been confirmed as the first member of the Vampire Diaries team to be attending the Insurgence: Bloodlines convention in the UK. The con takes place on the 19-21 March and is for the Vampire Diaries along with two more of the CW’s shows, Supernatural and Smallville. No news yet on other members of the cast and crew attending, but we’ll post as soon as we hear anything.

 
Most of us had already worked out that this was a given due to threads in the story that need tying up, but we’ve got official information now. Fancast have heard from Julie Plec that Bianca Lawson will be returning as Emily Bennett in flashbacks during episode 13, “Children of the Damned”. The episode in question will be airing on February 4.

Thanks to Max for getting in touch to update us on the Vampire Diaries airing in Germany. We’ve previously mentioned that the series premieres in Germany on January 20 on the ProSieben channel, but we’ve been told that Austria and Switzerland also get the ProSieben channel and will be getting the series at the same time as Germany. As we understand it, the series has been dubbed into German, and if you’re curious about what Elena, Stefan and Damon sound like, you can watch a trailer for it below.

 
And finally, a book curiosity. We have no idea what it’s about, but it certainly piqued our interest. @Guinevere09 was poking around on the Harper Teen website and found… ‘Stefan’s Diaries‘. Given that Stefan doesn’t keep diaries in the books (though you never know, he might have one hidden in his sock drawer), we’re wondering if this is possibly some kind of TV series tie-in. Whatever it’s about, it’s due for release at the end of June and we’ll certainly be keeping an eye on it.

Posted by Red | August 29, 2009, 10:16 (EST) | 11 Comments
Category: Books

Our friends over at Vampire Diaries BG have been awesome enough to share all four of the brand new Bulgarian covers for the Vampire Diaries with us. Many thanks, guys! The Awakening (Пробуждането) is set for publication on the 16th September (having been moved up from October), though there are no dates set yet for the rest of the series. We’ll let you all know as soon as we know the dates ourselves.

These covers use the same half-face theme as many of the recent publications around the world are using at the moment, but we have to point out an interesting and applause-worthy twist: they have Bonnie on the cover of Dark Reunion. Now, how cool is that? Ibis publishers, we salute you!

Posted by Red | August 26, 2009, 17:27 (EST) | 2 Comments
Category: Books

Brazil seems to be really getting into the spirit of things with the Vampire Diaries! Thanks to Diarios do Vampiro giving us the heads up, we now know what the cover of The Struggle is going to look like. It’s currently due to be published in November at some point. Meanwhile, the publication date for The Awakening in Brazil is just around the corner on the 28th August.

O Despertar
(The Awakening)

O Confronto
(The Struggle)

Galera Record (the publishers in Brazil) have a few things up their sleeves to promote the series. As well as an official website with wallpaper downloads and the diaries of Stefan and Damon (Google translate is useful for those of us who don’t speak Portuguese), they’re going to be holding a masquerade ball to celebrate the launch of the books. We hope those of you lucky enough to go have a whole lot of fun, and be sure to tell us all about it!

Posted by Red | August 25, 2009, 19:19 (EST) | No Comments
Category: Books, TV Series

Heroine TV has posted an interesting article comparing morality in the Vampire Diaries and the Whedonverse (Buffy, Angel and Firefly) and how there are a lot of positive similarities between them. It wins me over for giving a Matt Honeycutt scene some serious love, but even without that it’s well worth a read. ;)

We’ve had word from Ian Somerhalder Italy that the Vampire Diaries will be airing in Italy on “Mediaset Premium“, likely from December. It should be airing at some point in 2010 on public television channel “Italia 1“.

You can vote for the TV series that you’re most looking forward to in YouTube’s Fall Preview. Aside from the Vampire Diaries there are a whole lot of trailers for a large number of shows for you to take a look at. Personally, I’m boggling over the fact that ‘Paranormal Cops’ is an actual TV show.

A quick reminder that reprints of The Awakening and The Struggle with the TV series tie-in covers should be available from today. For those of you wanting to read the books before the TV series airs on September 10th, now is the perfect time to go and buy them.

Finally, as we’ve mentioned before, the CW and the Red Cross are joining forces to promote blood drives in over 230 schools and college campuses across the United States; you can read the CW press release about it on the Futon Critic. Tomorrow (Wednesday, August 26th) there will be a blood drive taking place at the Ball Room at Georgia Tech. Cast members Ian Somerhalder, Kayla Ewell, Michael Trevino and Steven R. McQueen will be there from 9-10 am, and you can book an appointment to give blood here on the Red Cross website. If you’re in the United Kingdom, please consider finding a donation centre in your local area and giving blood, too.

If you do decide to starve your vampire in order to donate, we urge caution until the next time you’ve been able to properly feed them. They tend to get a little tetchy without a regular meal of blood. ;)

Posted by Vee | June 24, 2009, 15:41 (EST) | 9 Comments
Category: Books

Sabrina Rojas-Weiss has a new installment of her Book Report: The Vampire Diaries up on MTV’s Hollywood Crush blog. While I think Red will take great exception to what she has to say about Matt (that flag flies high around these parts!), she does list off five reasons why the series will appeal to “Twilighters and Twi-Haters.” She touches on why Elena Gilbert kicks ass and why her friends are awesome, the appeal of Stefan and Damon, and why Fell’s Church is a very interesting place to live.

We also appreciate that she’s unafraid to touch on the series’ faults, too. Read the entire post over on the Hollywood Crush blog.

Posted by Vee | May 25, 2009, 16:45 (EST) | 8 Comments
Category: Books, Fandom, TV Series

So, so cool to see authors coming out as Vampire Diaries (and L.J. Smith) fans this week. (Hi, Melissa Marr!) Sarah Rees Brennan, author of The Demon’s Lexicon (which has received ringing endorsements from such writers as Holly Black, Scott Westerfield, and Cassandra Clare), posted a funny summary of The Vampire Diaries on her LJ this morning that we had to share. Thanks to Sarah for being game – we hope she decides to write those “affectionate parodies” of the TV episodes when they start airing. SPOILERS AHOY.
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES IN A NUTSHELL.

Posted by Vee | May 21, 2009, 3:57 (EST) | 14 Comments
Category: TV Series

More news – and we think some of you will find this particularly FANTASTIC.

Executive producer Julie Plec tweeted:

It’s Salvatore after all. But not Salvatooreee. Just Salvatore. Subjective choice, felt right. Hope u like it anyway.

We asked if she could clarify and she did:

@tvdnews yes, that’s the official name. There was a concern that we wouldn’t be able to clear it — hence, whitmore — but it made it thru.

She then added:

@tvdnews but before you feel too good, I will admit that it’s Stefan, not Stefahn. Another subjective choice. We’ll explain all in due time

“Whitmore” is being kicked to the curb, guys. We’re getting Stefan and Damon Salvatore (as in…?). Vampire-Diaries.net can’t wait to banish the double character tagging going on all over this humble website. (Might not be all the last names, but it’s the one that counts.)

Posted by Red | May 20, 2009, 16:20 (EST) | 6 Comments
Category: TV Series

Thanks to Cynthia over at SFUniverse for finding these and alerting us. We’ve got a picture of Elena looking spooked in a graveyard (looks like her parents’ grave in the background), and a more candid shot of Stefan and Elena under a tree.

(Photo credit: Kharen Hill/Alan Markfield/The CW)