One Lives, One Dies: VAMPIRE DIARIES to Get Full Season, SHREK to Close

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One Lives, One Dies: VAMPIRE DIARIES to Get Full Season, SHREK to Close

Posted on 22 October 2009 by Brent Hartinger, Editor

Surprising absolutely no one, The CW has ordered a full-season pick-up for their teen vampire drama The Vampire Diaries. The show had the network’s most successful series premiere ever (with 4.9 million viewers), and it has proved to be a solid performer ever since, averaging 3.9 million viewers.

“When you have a love story that’s this powerful, and then you throw this genre element into it, with the great guy across the room who’s moody and brooding and sexy and dangerous, and also happens to be a vampire, then you end up with stories you can tell for days!” Diaries co-creator Julie Plec tells TheTorchOnline.com.

Regarding upcoming storylines, which are taken from a series of books on which the TV show is based, Plec says, “I like to say that if you look at the gross content of the books, we’re following it incredibly closely. But if you look at the timeline, it’s varying quite a bit. We’re telling some of the stories a lot faster, some of them a lot slower. But the core relationships are very specific, and very much what we’re playing with. We’ve got about five books that we’re hopefully turning into many, many seasons. The lead character in the books is actually dead by book three, she’s a ghost. It might take us a bit longer to do that!”

Meanwhile, Shrek the Musical, the Broadway musical adaptation of the hit film, announced that it will close on January 3rd. The musical has been troubled ever since its opening on December 14, 2008. The show, which cost an eyebrow-raising $24 million to mount, saw mixed reviews (see our review) and spotty ticket sales. It’s since grossed $37.7 million.

The show was the first production of Dreamworks Theatricals, a division of the movie studio, and has been the subject of much speculation over the course of its run, with many wondering if Dreamworks was keeping a money-losing production going in order to avoid the embarrassment of a flop.