The CW’s 2011 Summer TCA panel for “The Secret Circle” took place at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday, August 4th.
Several cast members and producers from new shows including Ringer and Hart of Dixie were there to speak to the press and show some brand new footage.
We have compiled tweets from several journalists who live tweeted during the panel.
Additionally, TheTVAddict has blogged live from the panel which you can read in it’s entirety here.
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JimHalterman
If you didn’t know, it’s Vampires and Witches on Thursdays this fall! @CW_VampDiaries followed by #SecretCircle! New clip showing NOW!
KSiteTV
#SecretCircle preview clip running now. Here comes Gale Harold starting fires….
thesurfreport
Gale Harold plays malevolent characters so well. I really love that about him.
KSiteTV
“They made magic together.” Faye is so mainpulative.
JimHalterman
Since u asked…#GaleHarold in grey buttoned long sleeved shirt, dark slacks and black leather shoes (from Serbia, he told me).
JarettSays
Because of the success of #VampireDiaries, #SecretCircle was put into development.
JimHalterman
#GinaGirolamo/Alloy Ent. brought project to the studio to create #SecretCircle
KSiteTV
Present: Producers Gina Girolamo, Andrew Miller, Kevin Williamson, Britt Robertson, Gale Harold, Natasha Henstridge, & Thomas Dekker
cadlymack
Gale and @RealBritt_Rob. http://twitpic.com/60z20u/
TVGMDamian
Britt Robertson is the teeniest thing ever.
JimHalterman
Pilot and series being filmed in Vancouver, BC.
KSiteTV
The Steveston area was used for the #SecretCircle pilot.
thesurfreport
#SecretCircle films in Vancouver, esp the woods of Vancouver. Britt R hopes the show will last a long time.
cadlymack
The woods in the Secret Circle pilot are familiar “from a lot of big vampire movies” says KW, who does not invoke Twilight, but I will.
JarettSays
#SecretCircle forrest scene in the pilot was filmed in the same woods where Edward & Bella jumped around in #Twilight
KSiteTV
There are more interactions between Adam & Diana in what they’ve shot after the pilot.
JimHalterman
Love triangle chat: @TheThomasDekker says ‘We’re finding out more and more it’s not just a lustful teen attraction…’ btw Adam and Cassie.
cadlymack
Dekker says that we’ll learn much more about Adam’s history with Dianna, which is rooted in loyalty.
KSiteTV
There’s a “destiny” for Adam and Cassie, but there’s a “loyalty” between him and Diana.
cadlymack
Adam is dealing with “insatiable physical situation with Cassie that’s very dangerous and very new,” Dekker says.
thesurfreport
Thomas Dekker says Adam and diana story has more to it which we’ll learn in future episodes.
tbrick2
Dekker says we will see, “more interaction between Adam and Diana, which is rewarding to know their history.”
KSiteTV
Adam is the most “informed” about the witchcraft, which will probably bring them closer.
cadlymack
Are LJ Smith’s novels easy to adapt? “Easy is not in the universe here,” Kevin says.
tbrick2
“Destiny” between Adam and Cassie, “loyalty” between Adam and Diana, Dekker says.
KSiteTV
L.J. Smith’s work “ties into the stuff” that Kevin Williamson loves, and the genre that he loves.
MSLisaChang
Natasha is flawless as always in a royal blue dress.
JimHalterman
The murder, the mayhem? It’s all what @kevwilliamson calls his ‘happy place.’ I love it.
thesurfreport
Kevin Williamson loves the betrayal, deception in LJ Smith’s work. Loves the challenge of adapting her work for TV.
TVGMDamian
Kevin Williamson says the betrayal, friendship, loyalty, murder, etc in LJ Smith’s books are his “happy place”
KSiteTV
There are the six families connected to the Circle, but also, there may be other witches in town.
thesurfreport
Kevin says if you look at the parents, there has to be more than six people that are part of the #SecretCircle.
JimHalterman
The town the show is set in is Chance Harbor.
JimHalterman
‘We’re trying to use the witchcraft as a backdrop,’ says EP Andrew Miller.
cadlymack
.@thethomasdekker’s converse are so very clean. http://twitpic.com/60z5l7
cadlymack
“The easiest explanation is that there’s not a clear explanation,” Gale says when asked to “explain his character.”
cadlymack
Charles & Dawn are trying to get back something they thought they had their hands on many years ago.
thesurfreport
Gale Harold says his character wants to get something back that he had when he was younger. Says full explanation of Charles is not simple
JimHalterman
‘He kind of has to make sure everyone around him…assumes that he’s just an upstanding nice man and good father,’ even though he’s devilish
cadlymack
“It’s not just a bad guy, it’s a very bad guy, who seems to be a very good person and uses that any way he can,” Gale says.
TVGMDamian
Gale Harrold says his #SecretCircle baddie isn’t even sure how evil he is. He also speaks in a measured tone that scares me.
JarettSays
Gale Harold describes his char Charles by saying ‘even Charles is not really sure what he’s up to, but he’s a very bad guy’
thesurfreport
Kevin Williamson didn’t want #SecretCircle to look like #TVD which is why #SC is filming in Vancouver, not Atlanta. No crossover episode.
cadlymack
There won’t be a crossover because the mythologies of TVD & TSC don’t match. KW wants TSC to be just as great a story as TVD.
thesurfreport
Natasha Henstridge loves playing strong women & is happy she gets to play another one in #SecretCircle. She has morals, they’re unusual but she has them. Playing a straightforward villain is less interesting.
KSiteTV
Natasha Henstridge’s Principal Chamberlain definitely has an agenda.
JimHalterman
‘I think playing a straight-forward villain is less interesting…’ says @Nathenstridge on how making it about character is a good thing.
cadlymack
“He’s always going to be looking over his shoulders and looking into peoples’ windows,” Gale says of Charles. Creeper
KSiteTV
“You don’t know that!” Gale Harold says when someone tells him “you can’t kill everyone on the show.”
JimHalterman
Small towns are good because of gossip, history and he has to be careful. Part of the tension will be who finds out and what Charles does.
KSiteTV
“What was so horrific that chased Cassie’s mother from town 16 years ago?” @KevWilliamson says of one of the #SecretCircle mysteries.
KSiteTV
“If we do our job right, you’ll understand them.” – @KevWilliamson about the behavior of #SecretCircle villains
KSiteTV
“It’ll take some twists and turns” – @KevWilliamson on Adam/Cassie. “There’s going to be a history to it. It’s romance. Or maybe they’ll just find each other the next episode and live happily ever after.”
JimHalterman
Kevin sees TVD as having an ageless attitude. Vamps are, like, really old. With #SecretCircle, he loves the idea of multi-generational.
JimHalterman
Kevin says ‘it’s going to get very adult, very fast.’
TVGMDamian
Kevin Williamson promises lots of “twists and turned” for Adam and Cassie. It’s gonna be a cauldron of teen angst!
KSiteTV
“You’ll have to watch the second episode” – @KevWilliamson on when we might learn about witchy limitations.
JimHalterman
‘There’s certainly a snark to that,’ says Kevin on the sense of humor in #SecretCircle a la Damon on #TVD
thesurfreport
Williamson: our version of magic is very dark. There will be humor and scary “witchy woo”
KSiteTV
“Our witches don’t come from Virginia” – Andrew Miller on one of the differences between #VampireDiaries and #SecretCircle. (He’s joking. “Our magic comes from an elemental place,” he says, saying stories will come from various cultures)
JimHalterman
‘We’re trying to build our own sense of magic, witchcraft and mythology,’ says Andrew Miller, EP.
thesurfreport
Andrew Miller: our witchcraft comes out of fire, air, water, earth. It’s an organic experience, which is diff from #TVD.
cadlymack
.@MSLisaChang asked me to take a close up of gale’s shoe, but I left my paparazzi creep lens in my other iPhone. http://twitpic.com/60zesp
JimHalterman
Kevin insists the witchcraft in #TVD and #SecretCircle are very different.
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