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Title: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: David on October 22, 2013, 08:19:10 PM
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Ravenswood, a new, spooky prime time soap, will debut tonight (10/22) on ABC Family.
The producers cite DS as an influence and named one of the characters Collins--they specified in interviews that this is a nod to Barnabas!
Should be fun!
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on October 22, 2013, 08:27:56 PM
I've been seeing a lot of articles written about this show and reviews where the headlines seem to like it. I haven't read any of them, but I have been wondering if I should check the show out. And now that I see that it's a bit inspired by DS, I definitely will. Thanks for the post, David.  [hall2_smiley]
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on October 22, 2013, 08:49:56 PM
I just checked this out:

'Ravenswood' premiere clip: 'You never know what will happen in Ravenswood' (http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/10/ravenswood-premiere-clip-you-never-know-what-will-happen-in-ravenswood.html)

Definitely looks like it has potential.

And doesn't the word Ravenswood already have at least one partial connection to DS? Didn't Dan "Marilyn" Ross write a novel entitled Mistress of Ravenswood, or some such?
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: David on October 22, 2013, 09:25:28 PM
Why yes, Dan did!
Now if only we can get these DS fans who do DS-like series to do DS!
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: dom on October 22, 2013, 09:27:54 PM
Thanx for providing a link to a trailer, MB.
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: David on October 23, 2013, 03:06:41 AM
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So did anyone else watch it?
Creepy!
At first I was confused, because the show and storyline is continued from Pretty Little Liars, which I never watched, but it all began to come together quickly.
Steven Cabral, as the Collins character, is an undertaker who looks like a corpse! I could see him playing Barnabas!

Now I want to get the Pretty Little Liars DVDs!
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 07, 2013, 07:31:01 AM
I don't know if anyone is watching this show - and if you started to but gave up, I can understand because it wasn't all that exciting. Not bad, but not great either. But I decided to give it one more week, and I'm glad I did because I just finished watching the third ep and it really kicked things way up. There may really be hope for the show after all.
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: David on November 07, 2013, 12:35:32 PM
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I'm digging it!
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 16, 2013, 05:57:07 PM
November sweeps: 'Ravenswood' (http://www.zap2it.com/news/pictures/zap-new-girl-parenthood-and-more-november-sweeps-best-worst-20131115,0,5089135.photogallery?index=35)
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 20, 2013, 09:05:52 PM
Last night's midseason finale certainly threw some curveballs - enough so that I'm definitely intrigued enough to tune back in when the show returns in January.
Title: Re: Ravenswood: new prime time soap inspired (in part) by DS!
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on February 15, 2014, 05:32:54 AM
Actually, I've been so busy that I never did get the chance to tune back in when the show returned. And now comes this:

'Ravenswood' canceled by ABC Family (http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2014/02/ravenswood-canceled-by-abc-family.html)

So, apparently it was for the best that I didn't get attached to the show...