I looked up Matt Czuchry and he's had steady employment in two series... the first one was The Gilmore Girls, which I never watched but mention was made here of an episode with a Dark Shadows reference.
Yes, but unfortunately Matt Czuchry wasn't involved in the sequence - though he was already on the show. Think of how much of a hoot it would have been had he been part of it.
From just what we've seen, it looked like a good reboot of DS (better, so far, than the NBC '91 version).
It might be hard to say it was better than the '91 DS (especially when one ep is being judged against twelve), but that's not to say it was worse. In many ways the '04 DS pilot and the '91 DS are quite different, but in many other ways they're very similar, as we'll see as things play out with the pilot. I enjoyed both versions for what each one was. Though with that being said, and as I indicated in an earlier post, the pilot just might have staged the best vampire attack ever in any version of DS. Many fans do share that opinion. Unfortunately, though, those who've never seen it will simply have to use their imaginations when the description of it comes up later in this topic - and even as good as the description is in the script, the actual execution of the sequence in the pilot is that much better.