The Vampire Diaries Returns With the Damon-Elena-Stefan-Katherine Foursome

The Vampire Diaries is back and the season premiere was well worth that long break between seasons! What better way to celebrate its return than with a short but sweet favorite scenes post? Am I right or am I right?

The season premiere is best captured by Damon's predicament of always being the second choice to Stefan and this comes to fore as the premiere wrapped up. This whole relationship quadrangle will be an interesting situation for Elena, Stefan, Damon and Katherine, as the season progresses among other dynamics set up by the return of BAMF, Katherine.

Damon: I have a question. Answer it and expect the fireworks and the rockets around blare. Answer it right and I'll forget the last 145 years I've spent missing you. I'll forget it, how much I loved you. I'll forget everything and we can start over. This can be our defining moment. So we have time, this beauty of eternity. I just need the truth. Just once.

Katherine: Stop. I already know your question and its answer. The truth is, I've never loved you. It was always Stefan.

Read on, and view more screencaps from The Vampire Diaries Season 2 Premiere after the jump!

Match Airing! Another Reason to Send Our Love to Solar's ETC

If you're from countries outside the United States, the legal avenue of viewing your fave TV shows is to wait for your local channels to pick them up, and air them locally, which more often than not, results to a delay of one whole season or a couple of episodes. The other route for avid viewers is to rely on Megavideo or by downloading them via torrents. Often the reason is that people already watched the previous season, so they want to be as updated as the people in the U.S. The challenge then is to air episodes as close as possible to when the show goes live in the U.S, so these channels don't lose viewership.

A couple of years ago, Studio 23 brought us Fresh U.S. Episodes (FUSE), where the delay was only a week or an episode. The consensus was that it was an amazing step towards lessening the wait, but ultimately it was still delayed. And then last year, Solar Entertainment revolutionized S23's F.U.S.E. by way of airing Glee via satellite. In other words, the delay was mere hours! In fact for the downloaders, this would become the easier route, since it freed up storage space, wait time for the download for slow connections, and predictable viewing times!

This year, Solar Entertainment pushes the boundaries again via the shows airing on ETC. Apart from Glee, they've added E! News, the Daily Ten, TMZ, and The Vampire Diaries to this same day airing scheme. Aptly called, "Match Airing," I'm pretty sure this is a welcome relief for avid TV viewers and a definite step forward towards a "smaller TV world."

Good job ETC and Solar Entertainment! You definitely love your viewers!

EDIT 8/24: I forgot they're also airing Gossip Girl on the same day! :)
EDIT 8/26: And of course, I forgot to add America's Next Top Model, How I Met Your Mother, and Hellcats. (That last one surprised me a bit, since it's new and the buzz driving it is Ashley Tisdale cheerleading. The trailer did look good though!)

When's the Premiere of Your Favorite TV Show?

September draws nearer, and you all know what that means?! It's time once again for our favorite TV shows to premiere and grip our hearts and stomachs. So wouldn't it be nice to track the dates when the different TV shows come back? For my readers in the Philippines, you know the drill! Just push back the date by one day. Mark your calendars already!

To help us prep and get excited, I'm posting, as well, the teaser trailers for each show I listed here, as soon as they go live. In other words, I'll constantly update this page for the latest! :)

September 9

The Vampire Diaries

September 13

Gossip Girl

More shows after the jump!

The Vampire Diaries Trio are Cover Stars for TV Guide's Special Comic-Con 2010 Magazine

Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, and Paul Wesley of CW hit The Vampire Diaries, are on the special cover of TV Guide Magazine for this year's Comic-Con. The trio will be joining executive producers Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, among others in Comic-Con 2010 in the San Diego Convention Center on July 24.

The cover actually has four versions. SciFiCool.com previewed the version for Fringe. The other two shows are The Big Bang Theory, and Smallville.

Warner Bros. TV Group (WBTVG) teamed up with TV Guide for this special edition of the magazine. It will be distributed for the duration of Comic-Con 2010 and will be available exclusively at the WB Booth. Aside from the four featured series, the magazine also dishes on Chuck, V, Supernatural, True Blood, and other shows WB is involved in.

I've added the other versions of the cover after the jump.

There's a New Guy in Mystic Falls

Mystic Falls just added another looker in their already attractive cast. Taylor Kinney, who played Glenn Morrison in Trauma, will be visiting on of my favorite new shows, The Vampire Diaries, as Mason Lockwood. If that last name sounds familiar, it's because he'll be playing the younger brother of Mayor Lockwood. Julie Plec, one of the executive producers of the show, describes him as the cool uncle [of Michael Trevino's Tyler] and Ausiello adds, "Mason is sexy and athletic (duh) and possesses an easygoing charm." It'll be interesting how Uncle Mason will guide Tyler, in this new phase in his life.

On a side note, the casting team did a really good job with this family! They could totally pass off as father, brother, and uncle.

We'll all get to see this new character in the season premiere of The Vampire Diaries on September 9 on the CW.

10 Scenes from The Vampire Diaries Season Finale, "Founder's Day"

And since the inception of this site was already late in the game, I decided to just start with rolling out thoughts about the finales of the different fall shows. Most are ending in the next couple of weeks, and I'm expecting a ton of excellent season finales soon. I'm especially looking forward to House, Chuck, Glee. But to ferry us through those other shows, we have one of my favorite new shows this season, The Vampire Diaries. It's got enough spunk and hot people in it to get me interested.

So let's get the ball rolling with the 10 Scenes from The Vampire Diaries Finale, "Founder's Day."