Entertainment Weekly — IS THIS ALARIC’S NEW LOVE INTEREST?!?!?!

Julie Plec's, Paul Wesley, Daniel Gillies, Chris Wood, and David Gyasi on the perception of The CW

• DANIEL GILLIES: Typically in awards season, we’re going to award a Showtime or an HBO or an FX. You’re not going to award network television and certainly not the CW. Do you ever feel that there’s an injustice to that?
• JULIE PLEC: Yeah. We don’t do this for accolades ever but what is frustrating is that what’s become of the TV awards landscape: There is no room for the broadcast model because on cable, there exists both Bates Motel and Game of Thrones — a show made for two dollars can go up against a massive, massive exceptional HBO extravaganza and they’re all in the cable universe. I was convinced that Nina [Dobrev] should’ve been nominated for a Golden Globe the first season because [the Hollywood Foreign Press Association] has a history of nominating young actresses. They nominated Keri Russell; they nominated Sarah Michelle Gellar. They always pick the young, interesting actress from the new generation, and that year, they nominated Piper Perabo from Covert Affairs. And I was like, “S–t! That actually could’ve legitimately been Nina’s award.” But we’re a show that shoots in Atlanta. The Golden Globes are a campaign awards. In order to campaign for a Golden Globe, you do set visits, you throw luncheons, you do all those things.
• PAUL WESLEY: Also there’s a stigma with a supernatural show.
• JULIE PLEC: 1000 percent.
• PAUL WESLEY: I’m very critical of television and of myself and of The Vampire Diaries, but I will say the first couple seasons of Vampire Diaries were f–king out-of-this-world good.