Vampire Diaries is the story of two brothers…one good, one bad and both are Vampires. Stefan is the good one who returns home to his hometown that was slaughtered by his kind decades beforehand. He is now reformed and at his first day back home and at high school (I guess even Vampires need an education) he meets Elena, a girl who looks exactly like his lover from 100 years ago. To say these two have chemistry would be an understatement! But there budding love might be short lived because Stefan’s bloodsucking brother is back in town and he can’t stop feeding on human. Will the town remember their past horrors and start to put the pieces together as more and more mauled bodies keep showing up? I know I can’t wait to find out starting tonight on The CW at 8p!!!
I watched the pilot for this a few months ago and I loved it. I re-watched it again this morning before I worte this review to see if I would still feel the same way and the answer is no. I actually liked it even more! The cast is eye candy, but they are also good at acting out the different roles the play. Stefan is played by Paul Wesley and he has angelic look behind his bad boy image. He looks like he should be bad, but you can tell he good. Now Ian Somerhalder, who plays Damon is the opposite, he looks like an angel but underneath that face you can tell he is a demon waiting to get out. Who knew Boone from Lost could be so evil, and you will like that he is as much as I do! Following 90210’s Shenae Grimes from Degrassi to The CW is Nina Dobrev and she is so good as Elena. It is so nice to see the Degrassi alumni make it to primetime. Hopefully Nina will handle it better and I think she will.
Now when it comes to shows about Vampires, I am a sucker for them. But they have to be worth my while to keep me interested and this one so does! What I really like is they will be changing up the mythology we know about Vampires and I am intrigued with that notion. Heck I am just beyond intrigued to watch this show play out starting tonight on The CW at 8p!
And oh yeah make sure to stick around at 9p because all hell is breaking loose on Supernatural and that is bad for The Winchester boys, but good for us because it is going to be a heck of season fighting to restore our world to the way it was before they let Lucifer out to play!!!
The CW wants to let you know the naked truth about its new show The Beautiful Life: TBL, it really is that beautiful. The show’s stars Ben Hollingsworth, Sara Paxton, Corbin Blue and Ashley Madekwe took it all off for a good cause…to promote their show that is as hot as those pictures.
When it comes to TBL, I wasn’t expecting to like it but after watching it I fell in love with it and that was only a presentation of it. According to what two of the producers told us today at a CBS/The CW online press day, they have made changes from what I saw to what actually happens in the pilot. And here is a little tidbit, they still haven’t seen the pilot that airs on The CW on September 16th at 9p! Be fashionable and make sure to check out the show that Ashton Kutcher is Executive Producing!!!
The Beautiful Life is still a month away from premiering on The CW, but doesn’t mean it is too early to rally to get them to add a cast member to the show. Esteemed fashion model Adam Bertrand has already filmed a guest spot on the Ashton Kutcher show and now Katalyst is trying to get him on the show full time. Bertrand is looking for a change and has not renewed his contract with Ford plus he his currently recording his first CD. Ashton has so much faith him that one of his songs will be featured on the TBL soundtrack. The head of The CW, Dawn Ostroff said, “We would love to (have him),” she added, “Adam has not signed an official contract with us, but if all goes accordingly, he is in line to play the new role of “Mason” mid-season. We would love to have him on TBL – either as a series regular or as a guest star.” So let’s let them know a show about models needs one, so e-mail [email protected] and tell them you want to see him as Mason. Not saying that the current cast on the show is not good looking enough because believe they are, but there is always room for more eye candy!!!
TBL will debut on September 16th on The CW, and you are not going to want this miss the show that will be so fashionable to talk about!
This fall The CW is launching 3 sexy and addictive shows this September, The Vampire Diaries, The Beautiful Life and Melrose Place and today they were in Pasadena to preview the shows!!!
The Vampire Diaries will be coming to The CW on September 10th and you will be hooked from first bite! Dawson Creek’s Kevin Williamson is adapting the popular books (that were out before Twilight) to TV with Lost’s Ian Somerhalder, Degrassi’s Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley. Paul and Ian are Vampire brothers and Stefan (Paul) was in love with a woman that looks just like Nina when he was converted back in the 1860’s. Today at press tour we were told that we will see how the two brothers became Vampires and the process they went through to become blood suckers. They said that some of the popular mythology will stay the same, but there will be new things that we have not seen in past Vampire lore. A big difference is that they will be able to wear rings that will protect them from sunlight which is why Stefan is able to go to high school. Another big change will be the difference in their powers by what blood they feed on, Stefan does animal while Damon (Ian) loves the human variety. In fact Williamson said that Damon is a happy-go-lucky Vampire who tap dances threw life because he loves to feed on the humans! And believe me Ian really captures that feel!
Here is a cute tidbit that came at the end of their press session today, Kevin Williamson got the whole cast diaries that says Vampire Diaries on it, so they can keep a journal. The two actresses said they were using them!!! So add September 10th to your journals because believe you are not going to want to miss this show!
The next show was The Beautiful Life that is produced by Ashton Kutcher and stars Mischa Barton, who wasn’t there but she was still the talk of the panel. Because I really like the show, I will get to what they said about her recent hospitalization out of the way first. They all said what was ailing her never interfered with work and she is on the set today filming and she isn’t going anywhere soon. Ashton said like her character, she brings experience to the set of younger actors. Wow at 23 she is the old one.
Ashton also talked about his modeling career and even though you would think the lead character a fresh out Iowa boy who becomes a model in NYC is about him, he said it isn’t. But we will be seeing his past experiences playing out during the show. He also said when someone told him back in his home state to become a model, he didn’t know men could do that. He thought that Marlboro man was a real cowboy. He also told us when he went to U of Iowa he went back to his dorm room and got upset because his roommate was having sex in the room. He packed up his things and was ready to leave college but on the way to getting to the airport he got sidetracked and went to his mom’s who took him back to school. After that he wanted out of dodge and two weeks later he got the opportunity and the rest is history. What was interesting that he said if given to do it all over again he would not have gone in to modeling before he started acting. The advice that would help him break in to acting was not very good according to him. I can’t wait to see what parts of his past will be played out on the show.
The panel was not all about him, but seriously I could listen to him all day because he really is more than just beauty he also has brains. Who knew? But back to TBL the show being about models will deal with body image, but they will handle it responsibly. Just from the pilot you can tell these girls are healthy and not too skinny.
The Beautiful Life will begin walking the runway on September 16th at 9p, and you don’t want to miss a single frame!
The last fall show on the panel is the one that is getting the most buzz and that is Melrose Place. The show’s creator Darren Swimmer said this is a tribute to the original, but it is its own show and that it def is. One thing that was quickly corrected is that Sydney’s death will not play out for the whole as originally reported but only for a few episodes. Just because Sydney’s murder will be resolved that doesn’t mean that will be end of seeing Laura Leighton. Also Melrose Place original Thomas Calabro said that his appearances are open-ended as of now, so he won’t be going anywhere soon! BTW the originals said the set and the pool is just like the original but better. (Side note – ABC Family’s 10 Things I Hate About You is filming on the original set for the show!)
What was an interesting fact on the panel is that only one of the new residents at Melrose Place actually watched a few episodes of the show when it originally aired and Katie Cassidy has still not seen it. I wonder if that is why this show doesn’t feel like the original, because none of them know anything about the show that started on Fox. BTW Katie’s character is tri-sexual and will do anything and anyone. Wonder what that means. I guess we will find out starting on September 8th
Mischa Barton, who is reportedly being held on a 5150 in LA, was due to start filming her new show The CW’s The Beautiful Life in NY on Wednesday, but according to The Hollywood Reporter she has another week to get better because production was delayed 9 days until July 31st. They added that the reason for the delay has nothing to do with her, it is just that the sets are not ready yet.
I saw the pilot for the show and I really like it! But also after seeing the show, I can see her character easily being written out if need be and that was before all this stuff went down.
