Posted by Vee | March 12, 2010, 19:58 (EST) | 6 Comments
Category: TV Series

Spider from FearNet caught up with Paul Wesley on the red carpet at PaleyFest. Paul discusses Stefan as a romantic figure and bad boy, and gives his take on why Vampire Diaries fans get so defensive about those Twilight comparisons.

Posted by Red | March 12, 2010, 16:39 (EST) | 13 Comments
Category: TV Series

Well, the hiatus may suck but the dry spell of promotional goodies seems to be over. Trailers, synopses and now some episode stills courtesy of KryptonSite. Looks like Stefan and Matt have found something to bond over in the shape of cars. Vroom! You can check out the rest of the stills for the episode in KryptonSite’s Vampire Diaries gallery.

(And can I just say how much it’s driving me insane having to omit the ‘u’ from neighbourhood? I might make Vee type up this title from now on…)

Posted by Vee | March 4, 2010, 20:24 (EST) | 14 Comments
Category: TV Series

Kryptonsite has a handful of new images from A Few Good Men (and that’s on top of the new image of Stefan and Alaric that @LilMissX posted earlier today). See a few below and then see the rest over in the KS gallery. Warning: Some of the images are a little spoilery, so proceed with caution! This ep hits your TV on March 25th (three weeks!).

Posted by Vee | March 3, 2010, 21:00 (EST) | 6 Comments
Category: TV Series

Television Without Pity (via Yahoo!’s TV blog) lists their reasons for why The Vampire Diaries might be television’s most addictive show, including Nina Dobrev, the Salvatore brothers, the creepy factor, expanding on the books’ storyline, and more.

When “The Vampire Diaries” first debuted last fall, we worried it would be nothing more than “Twilight” for TV. But we’ve been happily proven wrong by the show’s quality storytelling and characters week after week. Sorry, “True Blood,” but this is the successor to “Buffy” we’ve been waiting all these years for.

We particularly agree with this one:

2. Tremendous Pacing
Something major has happened on the show almost every single week. Weaker shows drag out plot points for episodes on end, but “The Vampire Diaries” resolves those storylines in a mere forty minutes and then blows us away with something new.

Is there another show on TV that gives you a cliffhanger every single week? Read the entire list over at Yahoo!

Posted by Vee | March 1, 2010, 10:54 (EST) | 9 Comments
Category: TV Series

As we reminded you on Twitter last night, Paul Wesley stopped by PIX Morning News this morning to talk about what’s in store on Vampire Diaries when the show returns from its hiatus on March 25th. Check out PIX’s blog post and watch the video below.

Thanks to Jessica at PIX for giving us the heads up a week and a half ago. Barring a schedule change, Nina Dobrev should be stopping by the Morning News studio next Monday, March 8th at 8:50am.

Posted by Vee | February 22, 2010, 19:46 (EST) | 13 Comments
Category: TV Series

E!’s Watch with Kristin has a few interesting Vampire Diaries tidbits, and one is actually pretty huge.

Mae in Atlanta: Please tell me some of the sexy Vampire Diaries stars are hooking up in real-life!

Not so, says Candice Accola (Caroline). “There’s so much heat going on onscreen—we’re all just a family,” Candice tells us with a laugh. “I wish there was some juice or some crazy things going down, but not really. We disgustingly all just get along, and no one’s dating.” So apparently all the drama is happening on the show? Hmph! (Check the spoiler section below for that.)

What is the obsession with everyone hooking up, anyway?

And now we head into some major spoiler territory (seriously, DO NOT READ if you don’t want to know, and best avoid the comments):

Monica: Damon and Stefan for the win! Any scoop on Vampire Diaries?

Sorry, but I only have some good news for you Damon-Elena shippers: Stefan may dabble in something very un-Stefanlike again soon, which might change him somehow, and I just can’t imagine that goes over well with good girl Elena. Also, you’ll never guess whose body is going to be found…The next few episodes are gonna be good!

Check out Kristin’s column over on E! for more. (She’s also attending PaleyFest and is taking questions for the Vampire Diaries cast – email tvdiva@eonline.com. And thanks, Kristin, for a Vampire Diaries “spoiler” finally worth blogging about!)

Posted by Red | February 1, 2010, 20:20 (EST) | 10 Comments
Category: Books, Fandom, TV Series

Heat Magazine are really getting into the excitement of the Vampire Diaries and have up a little article selling the TV series to UK audiences, calling it “sexier than Twilight and less icky than True Blood, this is one vampy series you simply MUST watch”. They also have an exclusive video interview with Ian Somerhalder talking about the series, which you can view here. Sadly, there are no embed options, but we’ll be sure to add it if it crops up on YouTube. Thank you to Amy for sending us the links.

Update: Thanks to @TwilighterVN for the YouTube video link.

 
Kristin over at E! Online has a nice Stefan and Damon teaser for “Children of the Damned”. Highlight/mouseover to see the spoiler:

This week’s The Vampire Diaries reveals one of the biggest secrets of all: What actually happened to make Damon and Stefan hate each other? “We get to see the incident that drove them apart for the first time,” says show runner Julie Plec. Ooh, “the incident”? sounds a little Lostish! Also, we’ll see Dexter’s James Remar for the first time as Papa Salvatore. Let’s just hope he lives by a very different code than Harry Morgan!

And a little more specific:
The incident that tore Damon and Stefan apart involves their mutual love of a certain Elena look-alike vampire. Turns out, Stefan might inadvertently be the reason Katherine was locked up in the tomb, hence Damon’s desire to free her, and his unexplained hatred of his little bro.

 
Many thanks to Tiaria for letting us know about book publications in Russia again. As far as we can tell (with the dubious help of Google Translate), “The Fury” is out now, and Russian fans can order it over on ozon.ru. For everyone else, we have the cover to the right (click it for the larger version in our gallery). Oh, Russia, we love your wacky and unrelated covers. So much. :D

Marijó has emailed to let us know that the Warner Channel in Argentina will be running a Vampire Diaries marathon on Saturday, February 6 and Saturday, February 13 from 4pm. Update: Looks like it’s all over Latin America – thanks, Angie.

The Televixen’s Vampire Diaries podcast (featuring Melissa (The Televixen), Connie from Blast Magazine, Lucia from HeroineTV, and our very own Vee) is up: Let’s Kill All the Awesome Chicks. If you missed the first podcast, you can head over and listen to Operation Suspenders.

Finally, the TwiCon Celebrity Craft Basket we mentioned a few weeks back is open for sign-ups. If you want to contribute to a gift basket for various cast members from the Vampire Diaries, True Blood and Twilight, then mosey on over to Twilight Crafts to find out more and sign up.