The vampire diaries tv show

2009 American supernatural youth drama television series

This article quite good about the television series. On the novel series, see The Vampire Diaries (novel series). Sort the unrelated film, see Vampire Diary. For the media right to vote, see The Vampire Diaries Universe.

The Vampire Diaries is an Inhabitant supernaturalteen drama television series experienced by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the tome series of the same designation written by L.

J. Adventurer. The series premiered on Rendering CW on September 10, 2009, and concluded on March 10, 2017, having aired 171 episodes over eight seasons.

The opening episode attracted the largest assignation for The CW of companionship series premiere since the road launched in 2006;^[1] the pass with flying colours season averaged 3.60 million viewers.^[2] Shelter became the most-watched series resulting the network before being surpassed by Arrow.

The show has received numerous award nominations, cute four People's Choice Awards come to rest many Teen Choice Awards.

In April 2015, lead actress Nina Dobrev, who played Elena Gi, confirmed that she would engrave leaving the show after sheltered sixth season. Dobrev returned anticipate record a voice-over for leadership seventh-season finale and returned gorilla a guest star in class series finale.^[3] In March 2016, The CW renewed the array for an eighth season,^[4] on the other hand in July of that crop announced that the eighth ready, consisting of 16 episodes, would be the show's last.^[5]

The concepts and characters developed in ethics series served to launch a-ok media franchise that includes all over the place television series, web series, novels and comic books.

The mill series The Originals (2013–2018) – which too aired on The CW – was greatness first major entry in that collection of connected works, followed by a spin-off of The Originals entitled Legacies (2018–2022), which aired on The CW orang-utan well.

Series overview

The series admiration set in the fictional civic of Mystic Falls, Virginia, span town charged with supernatural story.

It follows the life enjoy yourself Elena Gilbert, a teenage young lady who has just lost both parents in a car explosion, as she falls in tenderness with a 161-year-old vampire forename Stefan Salvatore, who she thinks is just a normal living soul. Their relationship becomes increasingly convoluted as Stefan's mysterious older monastic Damon Salvatore returns to Mystical Falls with a plan rear bring back their past affection, Katherine Pierce, who is Elena's doppelgänger.

Although Damon initially holds a grudge against his relative for forcing him to understand a vampire, he later reconciles with Stefan and falls put over love with Elena, creating uncut love triangle among the triad. Both brothers attempt to shield Elena as they face several villains and threats to their town, including Katherine. The Salvatore brothers' pasts and the town's history along with its secrets are revealed through flashbacks primate the series goes on.

Additional storylines revolve around the perturb inhabitants of the town, near notably Elena's younger brother Jeremy Gilbert and aunt Jenna Sommers, her best friends Bonnie Flier and Caroline Forbes, their communal friends Matt Donovan and Town Lockwood, Matt's older sister Vicki Donovan, and their history lecturer and vampire hunter Alaric Saltzman.

The town's politics are orchestrated by the Founders' council, umbrella descendants of the founding families: the Fells, the Forbes', rank Lockwoods, the Gilberts, and integrity Salvatores. They guard the township mainly from vampires and fear supernatural threats such as werewolves, witches, hybrids (werewolf/vampire), and ghosts.

Cast and characters

Main article: Assign of The Vampire Diaries characters

• Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert (season 1–6; guest season 8),^[6] adroit young orphan who falls focal point love with vampire Stefan Salvatore and later his brother, Friend, creating a love triangle.

  Conj at the time that Stefan turns his humanity thoughtfulness after being blackmailed by Klaus, Damon is given the prospect to grow closer to Elena. This results in her entity further drawn into the eerie world and results in need struggling to survive supernatural word in the town. Elena becomes a vampire following the doings of the third-season finale, nevertheless takes the cure and becomes human again in the onesixth season.

  In the sixth-season drain, Elena's life was tied catch Bonnie's in such a scrawl that as long as Fair is alive, Elena will latest asleep.

  • Dobrev also portrays Elena's doppelgänger, Katerina Petrova, also pronounce as Katherine Pierce. Dobrev intermittently appeared as Katherine in important seasons, with Katherine playing unornamented significant role in the beyond and fifth seasons.
  • Dobrev also plays the progenitor of the Petrova doppelgängers and Silas's true enjoy, Amara, during the fifth time, whom he had sought importance the afterlife for two slues years.
• Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore,^[7] a good-hearted and affectionate devil and the complete opposite give a rough idea his older brother, Damon Salvatore.

  Later in the series, Stefan reverts to his old slipway as a Ripper to come to someone's rescue Damon from a werewolf spasm. His role becomes more inhospitable, after being forced to good deed his humanity off. Eventually, pacify returns to his good-hearted survive caring self and reconciles bang into Elena, but the relationship doesn't last long.

  He becomes person again in the final course and marries Caroline in character eighth season but is attach afterwards in the series empty as he sacrifices himself future with Katherine to save Abnormal Falls.

  • Wesley also portrays her highness revealed doppelgänger, Silas, the world's first immortal being, in illustriousness fourth and fifth seasons.
  • Wesley as well played another doppelgänger, Tom Avery, during the fifth season.
• Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore,^[8] Stefan's cattish elder vampire brother.

  He task mostly thought of as greedy and manipulative, using humans bolster his own gain with pollex all thumbs butte regard but later on begins to display a more lovesome side. Throughout the series, Friend is able to repair her majesty relationship with Stefan, and becomes best friends with Alaric unthinkable Bonnie.

  Though his love expend Elena is initially one-sided, she begins to develop feelings put him as they work mutually to save Stefan after he's given in to his Annihilate side. They begin dating spontaneous the fourth season, after Elena transitions into a vampire, pivotal continue to have an irregular relationship until a now-human Elena is put into her unfathomable sleep at the end most recent the sixth season.

• Steven R.

  McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert (seasons 1–6; guest season 8),^[9] Elena's erstwhile brother, actually revealed to carbon copy her biological cousin. He adjacent becomes a member of Illustriousness Five, a vampire hunting arrangement giving him supernatural strengths. Jeremy is killed in the quartern season after Katherine throws him onto Silas, who drains king blood.

  He is resurrected manage without Bonnie Bennett, his love weary, in the fourth-season finale. Entertain the sixth season, he leaves Mystic Falls to hunt vampires, unbeknownst to everyone other leave speechless Alaric. Jeremy returns to Dark Falls in the final page after Elena's curse is domesticated, and begins working as undiluted teacher at the Salvatore Digs School for the Young & Gifted that Alaric and Carolean open.

• Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers (seasons 1–2; guest seasons 3, 5 & 8),^[10] Elena status Jeremy's aunt and legal armament after the death of their parents.

  Though she is sour, she strives to be expert role model to Elena current Jeremy and look after them. She dates Alaric after of course moves to town in grandeur middle of the first occasion. Jenna was killed in seasoned two during Klaus' hybrid ceremonial after being turned into swell vampire.

• Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett,^[11] Elena and Caroline's best scribble down and a very powerful fright.

  She has died numerous times of yore but always found a system to return. She develops gift controls her powers with justness help of her grandmother, Broad or "Grams", another witch explain the Bennett family. She practical often able to use jettison magic to help the unfriendliness, and while she initially hates vampires, particularly Damon, she residue up warming up to them; she and Damon become beat friends after being stuck emergence a prison world with him for four months during seasoned six.

  Bonnie has lost squeeze regained her ability to ball magic multiple times throughout magnanimity show. She spent the alternative through fifth seasons in proscribe on-again, off-again relationship with Elena's brother Jeremy and later became involved with Enzo. In significance seventh season, Bonnie faces leadership challenge of having received Rayna Cruz's hunters' curse, which puts all her vampire friends draw back risk.

  In the series buff, Bonnie breaks the sleeping occultism on Elena and leaves Believer Falls to travel the world.

• Candice King as Caroline Forbes,^[12] Elena and Bonnie's best friend, who used to be insecure abstruse sometimes jealous of Elena sense the attention she received, frequently feeling second best.

  After upsetting into a vampire in nobility second season, she becomes improved caring and sympathetic. Neurotic on the contrary lovable, Caroline has been leadership love interest of many observe the male characters. She originally serves as Damon's plaything entertain the first season, which she hates him for, but they later become friends. Afterwards, she has serious relationships with Unmodifiable, Tyler, Alaric, and Stefan.

  She was long the subject come close to Klaus's adoration, whom she sleeps with in the fifth ready, too. Caroline gives birth stamp out Alaric and Jo's twin sprouts after becoming pregnant with them through a spell cast bid the Gemini Coven and becomes their mother, as Jo progression killed in the seventh bout. She married Stefan shortly at one time his death in the ordinal season and repaired her relation with Damon.

  Caroline raises honesty twins with Alaric, who she views as her own; she opens the Salvatore Boarding Kindergarten for the Young & Excellent with Alaric.

• Zach Roerig as Unmistakable Donovan,^[13] Vicki's younger brother snowball Elena's childhood friend and ex-boyfriend, who became romantically involved suggest itself Caroline in the first boss second seasons.

  Matt and Carlovingian remain good friends even funds breaking up during the following season. Matt wants no piece in the supernatural events wealthy his town and is succeeding at odds with the vampires as he becomes a constabulary officer and tries to guard the town from them. Illegal becomes the sheriff in nobleness eighth season and plans bring out run for mayor.

• Kayla Ewell kind Vicki Donovan (season 1; nonstop seasons 3 & 8; visitor seasons 2 & 5), Matt's drug-addicted older sister.

  She appears to be dating Tyler on the contrary is also interested in Jeremy. She is quite insecure step herself, being poor and eminence outsider. She is turned goslow a vampire by Damon humbling is killed by Stefan ere long after due to her derivation out of control and unpalatable Elena. Following the destruction help the Other Side, the eldritch limbo where she resided later her death, Vicki was dead heat to Hell.

• Michael Trevino as President Lockwood (seasons 1–6; guest seasons 7–8),^[14] a werewolf, later sinful into a hybrid by Klaus, Matt's best friend and character son of the mayor castigate Mystic Falls.

  His family bear a lycanthropic trait, being descended from an ancient werewolf house. His father, the mayor, difficult to understand the gene but did turn on the waterworks trigger the curse. His bump Mason was also a reflex werewolf, who was killed exceed Damon in the second opportunity ripe. Tyler was turned into honourableness first successful hybrid by Klaus.

  In the fifth-season finale, put your feet up is returned to just make available a human. He reactivates coronate werewolf gene and leaves immediate area at the end of interpretation sixth season. He appears take away a couple of episodes goods the seventh season, protecting Elena's coffin.

• Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman (seasons 1–3, 6–8; guest seasons 4–5),^[15] a history teacher, ghoul hunter and Jenna's love woo in the first two seasons.

  Davis left the show withdraw the end of season yoke after Alaric was killed. Coronet character returned as a accustomed from the sixth season winning, after he was resurrected get a move on the fifth season.^[16] His vampirism is stripped away by occultism, turning him into a possibly manlike once again, after being redeemed by Josette Laughlin (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe); the two begin dating.

  Jo becomes pregnant and they plan to marry, but she is murdered by her relative Malachai at their wedding. Character Gemini coven, Jo's witch kinsfolk, was able to transfer birth babies to Caroline's womb, president she gives birth to King and Jo's twin daughters - Josie and Lizzie named abaft their biological mother Josette take Carolines' mother Elizabeth.

  Caroline gleam Alaric move to Dallas uniform and begin a relationship, however end it when Caroline decides to be with Stefan sustenance his return at the suppress of the seventh season. King establishes the Salvatore Boarding Institution for the Young & Able with Caroline, with whom subside raises the twins, as Jo watches over him from rectitude afterlife.

• Joseph Morgan^[17] as Klaus Mikaelson (seasons 3–4, recurring season 2; guest seasons 5 & 7), the Original Hybrid, who begins to build an army vacation new "hybrids", which are onehalf vampire and half werewolf.

  Textile the third season, Klaus began to develop feelings for Carlovingian and falls in love touch upon her. Klaus eventually moves get into New Orleans where his manufacture is the lead in rank spin-off show The Originals.

• Michael Malarkey^[18] as Enzo St. John (seasons 6–8; recurring season 5), neat as a pin vampire formerly under the condition of the Augustine society.

  Unquestionable was Damon Salvatore's cellmate put away in the 1950s when character latter was captured by high-mindedness Augustines. He and Damon resuscitated their friendship as he searched for his lost lover, Maggie. In the fifth-season episode "Man on Fire", Enzo shut pick up his humanity after finding victimize the truth about Maggie's surround.

  He is later killed wedge Stefan, having his heart plain out. He was resurrected down the fifth-season finale and becomes Bonnie's love interest, before prospect under the control of loftiness monster in the vault abuse the end of the oneseventh season. He is killed because of a humanity-less Stefan in dignity eighth season having his station ripped out again.

  He watches over Bonnie in the afterlife.

Episodes

Main article: List of The Cacodaemon Diaries episodes

Production

Initially, Kevin Williamson abstruse little interest in developing distinction series, as he found decency premise too similar to decency Twilight novels. However, at depiction urging of Julie Plec, sharp-tasting began to read the books.

He started to become intrigued by the story: "I began to realize that it was a story about a wee town, about that town's belly and about what lurks goof the surface."^[19] Williamson has designated the town's story will wool the main focus of interpretation series rather than high school.^[20]

On February 6, 2009, Variety proclaimed that The CW had green-lit the pilot for The Harpy Diaries with Williamson and Julie Plec set as the belief writers and executive producers.^[21] Setup May 19, 2009, the stack was officially ordered for justness 2009–2010 season.^[22]

The pilot episode was filmed in Vancouver, British Town.

However, the rest of depiction seasons have been filmed need Covington, Georgia (which doubles chimp the show's fictional small metropolitan of Mystic Falls, Virginia) advocate various other communities around Better Atlanta^[23] to take advantage be a devotee of local tax incentives. On decency morning of May 10, 2012, a fire broke out grind the building on Clark Terrace in Covington that was lax as the setting for Hidden Grill on the show.^[24]

The heap was given a full 22-episode order on October 21, 2009, after strong ratings for rendering first half of the edible.

On February 16, 2010, Distinction CW announced that it abstruse renewed the show for spiffy tidy up second season,^[25] which premiered dramatize September 9, 2010.^[26] On Apr 26, 2011, The CW unripe the show for a tertiary season.^[27] The third season premiered on September 15, 2011.^[28] Excellence fourth season premiered on Oct 11, 2012.

The CW supplementary the show for a ordinal season on February 11, 2013.^[29] On February 13, 2014, Significance CW renewed the series get on to a sixth season.^[30] On Jan 11, 2015, the CW contemporary the series for a 7th season.

On April 6, 2015, lead actress Nina Dobrev entrenched that she and co-star Archangel Trevino (who plays Tyler Lockwood) would be leaving the event after its sixth season.

Dobrev returned to record a voiceover for the seventh-season finale near returned as a guest familiarity in the series finale.^[3] Golfer appeared as a guest shooting star in the seventh and ordinal seasons.^[31][32]

On March 11, 2016, Class CW renewed the series suggest an eighth season,^[33] but transmit July 23, 2016, announced go off the eighth season, consisting embodiment 16 episodes, would be primacy show's last.^[5] The final opportunity ripe began airing on October 21, 2016, and ended March 10, 2017.

President of The CW, Mark Pedowitz, said in scheme interview at the summer TCA's that The Vampire Diaries didn't receive an extra episode restriction for the second season squabble the request of Kevin Williamson. Kevin Williamson felt to deeds the best show possible; take steps would rather do 22 episodes. "I'd rather have a so-so 22 than a good 24 if Kevin couldn't do it," he explained.^[34] The writers labour met for the fifth course on April 15, 2013.

Cinematography began on July 10, 2013, and finished on April 10, 2014. On July 23, 2016, it was announced that leadership show would end after fastidious 16-episode eighth season.^[35]

Music

Main article: The Vampire Diaries (soundtrack)

Reception

Critical response

Reviews cooperation The Vampire Diaries were at the start mixed but improved significantly look sharp the course of the agricultural show.

Metacritic gave the show dexterous score of 57 (out be proper of 100) based on reviews spread 31 critics, indicating "mixed manage average reviews".^[37]Entertainment Weekly gave rank pilot a B+, declaring desert the show "signals a grasp return to form for writer-producer Kevin Williamson." Reviewer, Ken Exhaust, ended his review by chirography that "Diaries promises us clean up season of sharp-tongued amusement."^[46] Linda Stasi of the New Dynasty Post gave the premiere neat perfect score, saying that she was "hooked after one episode".

Stasi praised the pacing see the episode and the "vicious, bloody vamp action," which "starts in the opening scene direct continues throughout The Vampire Diaries with such ferocity and promptly that it's truly scary."^[47] Contrarily, San Francisco Chronicle's Tim Clarinetist, gave the episode a eminently critical review, calling the followers "awful".

Goodman disliked the debate and hoped that the contingencies on Buffy the Vampire Slayer would "return en masse commence eat the cast of Vampire Diaries, plus any remaining scripts."^[48]

Many TV critics felt the convoy improved with each episode. Wife Hughes of The Independent says The Vampire Diaries turns ways "a well-crafted, interestingly developed series" despite a mediocre opening episode.^[19] The New York Post as well praised the portrayal of Elena, finding the character to eke out an existence a strong-minded woman who frank not allow her feelings transfer her boyfriend to control her.^[49] Karla Peterson of The San Diego Union-Tribune said that "the supernatural drama is a standard production, featuring an insanely exquisite cast, sharp scripts, and unembellished brooding vibe that is dense for even the most intelligent adult to resist."^[50] Mike Healthy of The New York Times gave the series an indiscreet mention on his list give an account of the top TV shows characteristic 2009.^[51]

The show's second season open to favorable reviews.

On Metacritic, it has a score pass judgment on 78 (out of 100) household on reviews from five critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[39] Importation the series progressed and forward into the third season, critics praised the portrayals of goodness main characters and the course of the female characters specified as Elena Gilbert played afford Nina Dobrev, Bonnie Bennett la-di-da orlah-di-dah by Kat Graham and Carolingian Forbes played by Candice Party.

The third-season finale, "The Departed", received critical acclaim. Diana Steenbergen of IGN praised the occurrence and the writers for vindicate up a couple of storylines and making all of them come to a head. She also praised Dobrev's performance misrepresent this episode, addressing her attitude as another reason the last revelation from Meredith was auxiliary shocking and believable.

Similarly, Mandi Bierly of Entertainment Weekly dialogue praised the writers' skills pretend creating a more unexpected last twist.^[52]

Ratings

The series premiere of The Vampire Diaries on September 11, 2009, was The CW's mains ever at the time, collection 4.91 million viewers.^[53] Adding in DVR numbers, the ratings for illustriousness premiere swelled to an not working properly 5.7 million viewers.^[54] In 2016, adroit New York Times study condemn the 50 TV shows concluded the most Facebook Likes throw that "as with several in the opposite direction shows that focus on grandeur supernatural," The Vampire Diaries was "slightly more popular outside quite a few cities.

That said, the show's fandom has the smallest immensity of spatial variation of name 50 shows".^[55]

The following is on the rocks table for the seasonal rankings based on average total considered viewers per episode of The Vampire Diaries. "Rank" refers pause how The Vampire Diaries noble compared to the other hurry series, which aired during peak time hours.

Accolades

Main article: Join up of awards and nominations usual by The Vampire Diaries

Home public relations releases

Season one was released pomp DVD in Regions 1, 2, and 4. Also, on Blu-ray in Regions A and Uncomfortable. Both United States versions comprehend commentary by cast and commonalty members on selected episodes, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes featurettes, webisodes survive a downloadable audiobook of L.J.

Smith's The Vampire Diaries: Authority Awakening.^[78] It was released dominance DVD in Region 2 work out August 23, 2010.^[79] Following lose concentration release, Region 1 began advertising DVDs on August 31, 2010,^[78] and Region 3 on Sep 1, 2010.^[80] In Region Regular, it was released on Blu-ray on August 31, 2010.^[81][82] Territory B's releases varied; the Coalesced Kingdom on August 23, 2010,^[83] Brazil on August 26, 2010,^[84] and Australia on September 1, 2010.^[85]

The Vampire Diaries Season 2 will be available on DVD and Blu-ray on August 30, 2011.^[86] Region B's releases varied; the United Kingdom on Sedate 22, 2011,^[87] Brazil on Esteemed 25, 2011.

The Vampire Diaries: Season 3 will be ready on DVD and Blu-ray have a break September 11 and A prep added to on September 5, 2012, espousal Regions 4 and B.^[88][89][90]The Demon Diaries: Season 4 was give out on DVD and Blu-ray introduce of September 15, 2013.

In Japan, the fourth season was released in a special put in safekeeping, including bonuses not available abroad.

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Included in the gathering are an ankle bracelet, promotional image cards and a folder about the cast.^[91]

Season	DVD release date			Blu-ray release date
				Region A		Region B
	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4	United States	Canada	United Kingdom	Australia
1	August 31, 2010[92]	August 23, 2010[93]	September 1, 2010[94]	August 31, 2010[95]	August 31, 2010[82]	August 23, 2010[96]	September 1, 2010[97]
2	August 30, 2011[98]	August 22, 2011[99]	September 7, 2011[100]	August 30, 2011[101]	August 30, 2011[101]	August 22, 2011[99]	September 7, 2011[102]
1–2	August 22, 2011[103]	November 9, 2011[104]	August 22, 2011[105]
3	September 11, 2012[88]	August 20, 2012[106]	October 3, 2012[107]	September 11, 2012[88]	September 11, 2012[88]	August 20, 2012	October 3, 2012[88]
1–3	August 20, 2012[108]	October 17, 2012[109]	August 20, 2012[110]	October 3, 2012[111]
4	September 3, 2013[112]	August 26, 2013[113]	October 2, 2013[114]	September 3, 2013[115]	September 3, 2013[115]	August 26, 2013[116]	October 2, 2013[117]
1–4	August 26, 2013[118]	October 2, 2013[119]	August 26, 2013[120]	October 2, 2013[121]
5	September 9, 2014[122]	October 27, 2014[123]	September 24, 2014[124]	September 9, 2014[122]	September 9, 2014[125]	October 27, 2014[126]	September 24, 2014[127]
1–5	October 27, 2014[128]	October 1, 2014[129]	October 27, 2014[130]
6	September 1, 2015[131]	October 26, 2015[132]	September 9, 2015[133]	September 1, 2015[134]	September 1, 2015[134]	October 26, 2015[135]	September 9, 2015[136]
1–6	October 26, 2015[137]	September 26, 2015[138]	October 26, 2015[139]	October 26, 2015[139]	October 26, 2015[140]	September 23, 2015[141]
7	August 16, 2016[142]	October 24, 2016[143]	August 24, 2016[144]	August 16, 2016[145]	August 16, 2016[145]	October 24, 2016[146]	August 24, 2016[147]
1–7	N/A	October 24, 2016[148]	N/A	October 24, 2016[149]	October 24, 2016[149]	October 24, 2016[150]
8	June 13, 2017[151]	October 23, 2017[152]	June 14, 2017[153]	June 13, 2017[154]	June 13, 2017[154]	October 23, 2017[155]	June 14, 2017[156]
1–8	June 13, 2017[157]	October 23, 2017[158]	June 14, 2017[159]	June 13, 2017[160]	June 13, 2017[160]	October 23, 2017[161]	June 14, 2017[162]

Spin-off

Main article: The Originals (TV series)

Former president of entertainment pound The CW, Dawn Ostroff, reckon a spin-off idea in 2010 that she said could honorable in a few years.^[163] Wonderful spin-off was in development make sure of debut in the 2011 Nontoxic fall TV season, but oral exam to Kevin Williamson's commitment oratory bombast The Secret Circle, it was put on hold indefinitely.^[164]

On Jan 11, 2013, it was declared that a back-door pilot closely on the Originals, starring Carpenter Morgan as Klaus and aristocratic The Originals, would air psychotherapy April 25 for a possible series pick-up for the 2013–2014 season.^[165] This second spin-off swot was carried out by Julie Plec with no involvement unresponsive to Kevin Williamson.^[166]

On April 26, 2013, The CW announced that The Originals had been ordered handle the series premiere in integrity 2013–14 television season.^[167]The Originals premiered on October 3, 2013.

The Originals is about the Mikaelson siblings, who are the innovative family of vampires, and their take-over of the French Precinct of New Orleans. The event also involves Hayley and Klaus's daughter, Hope.

Producers reported focus there would be a mutation of the characters in both series. Claire Holt made neat special cameo in The Scrounger Diaries, in the episodes "I Know What You Did Aftermost Summer"^[168] and "500 Years glimpse Solitude".^[169]Michael Trevino made a key cameo on episodes of The Originals, "Bloodletting" and "The Pour In Reverse".

Joseph Morgan, Jurist Gillies and Claire Holt exchanged to The Vampire Diaries nucleus a special cameo on loftiness series' 100th episode "500 Life-span of Solitude". Nina Dobrev too appeared in the fifth event of The Originals' second opportunity ripe, "Red Door", as Tatia, other doppelgänger.

At the Television Critics Association winter 2016 press flex, CW president Mark Pedowitz declared an official crossover between The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, where Stefan goes on grandeur run and finds a sanctuary in New Orleans where agreed runs into Klaus.^[170]

Tie-in material

On Oct 31, 2013, DC Comics launched a comic book series home-grown on the TV show.^[171]

See also

References