Halloween night DS Cast Reunion - The Quarantine Theatre Company

[Mysterious Benefactor]

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"      Jake says:
     November 4, 2020 at 2:10 PM
     The CW was more interested in the rip off of Dark Shadows with The Vampire
     Diaries. It’s a shame they don’t give Dark Shadows a chance since it’s better than
     The Vampire Diaries and their spinoffs that are low rated. I was interested in this
     version of Dark Shadows they were talking about because it was going to be a
     continuation unlike the last two attempts The CW wanted to do which were reboots
     of the series starting from scratch. Hopefully The CW changes its mind and
     greenlights a season airing it with Nancy Drew. Those two would go good together.


             tommymikaelson says:
           November 4, 2020 at 2:27 PM
           the cw just need to slow down on vampire shows for a while cause for some
           odd reason they are obsessed with a lost boys show cause they’ve remade
           the pilot like two or three times already and i hate that, i dont think lost bos a
           great movie like some people think, i like dark shadows more, i just do


 tommymikaelson says:
November 4, 2020 at 2:00 PM
sad news about dark shadows reboot, i was looking forward to that
dont know how to feel about supernatural news, im not so worried about sam and deans
fate as i am with cas and jack


 tommymikaelson says:
November 4, 2020 at 2:30 PM
and my words mean nothing to hollywood but really what was the catalyst for DS not even
receiving a pilot, it feels like someone just made this announcement and then the next day
changed their mind

 Ray says:
November 4, 2020 at 6:56 PM
No Dark Shadows or The Brides…what disappointing developments for the supernatural
genre on broadcast TV this year."

Those posting times are PT, which is why the above comments weren't listed when I posted that first comment yesterday...

Also, I believe tommymikaelson is wrong when it comes to The Lost Boys having made two or three pilots. The CW did make one pilot and they rejected that. But afterward they asked the people involved to develop a second pilot. However, because of the pandemic that second pilot has yet to be shot. Though he is correct in that the CW is very high on that project. Last year I remarked that I feared that fact might hamper the DS pilot - and perhaps that really is what happened.

[Gothick]

Some of the questions I would have liked to have heard:

What are your memories of Louis Edmonds?

What are your memories of Lela Swift?

What are your memories of Irene Hamalain and Vinnie Loscalzo? Etc

"Who is your favorite character" or "Did anything paranormal ever happen in the studio???" AAARRGGHHHH

Still, it was great, for what it was.

G.

[Uncle Roger]

I'm glad that Halpern's mention of Nancy Barrett's marriage to David Ford didn't seem to upset Nancy. I know that it's been decades since they divorced but that always seemed to be a topic to be avoided.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Yeah, that question about any supernatural occurrences at the DS studio was particularly “inspired,” don’t you think?

And, I wish David Selby had not asked Roger Davis about “Alias Smith and Jones.”

By the way, who is Richie Halperin anyway?

[Gothick]

Halpern is DS fandom's answer to Skip E. Lowe.

G.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Ah yes, Sammy Labella, rip.

[Uncle Roger]

Conspicuously absent was Jim Pierson.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Another comment - and one that proves we're not the only ones asking similar questions:

" James says:
November 5, 2020 at 7:15 AM
Why did it take 2 years for the CW to decide to reject the Dark Shadows developmental
pilot? Were there multiple scripts submitted? Was it the concept or the script just wasn’t
good enough? It would be nice to know especially when the CW was originally interested
in the idea."

Though James is off on the timeline because the project was announced a little under 14 months ago, not 2 years. But it does seem like the silence surrounding the project has gone on for more than 2 years...