Filming for the backdoor pilot for The Originals (The Vampire Diaries S4:Ep.20) began yesterday!

And here are a couple pictures, taken by the show’s director Chris Grismer, from the set:

In the episode, we’ll see Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah travel to New Orleans, where Hayley has settled after betraying pretty much everyone in Mystic Falls. There, Klaus will be reunited with his old vampire protege, Marcel.  The group will also come across witches Sophie and Davina, who are on the cusp of a supernatural revolution, and psych student Camille, who seeks answers about innate evil after a horrific family tragedy.

The episode will air on April 25th.

Personally, I can’t wait!

How about y’all?

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Chris Egan has been cast as Dorian Gray and Tom Ellis will be playing Victor Frankenstein in ABC’s Gothica.

In the show, Frankenstein runs a hospital that also does biotech research and believes that he may have a way to bring his recently deceased daughter back to life. Victor was once romantically involved with the show’s lead character, Grace Van Helsing. Dorian Gray (Egan) is a wealthy playboy who invests $20 million in Grace’s newspaper.

Bob Morley has been cast as Bellamy, one of the delinquents — but five years older than the next-oldest — on the space station. He is described as manipulative, strong and crafty.

Eli Goree will play Wells Jaha, also one of the young delinquents on the space station. He is disliked by the others because many of their parents have been imprisoned — or worse — by Wells’ father, the chancellor of the space station.

Robbie Amell will play Stephen, a tormented young man who longs to be normal and is relieved when he learns that he’s not crazy, but rather part of a group of genetically superior “Tomorrow People.”

Last Bite is back with news on the new shows that will be popping up on your TV in the 2013-2014 TV season (i.e. Dracula, Gothica, The Originals, The Selection, The Witches of East End and more…) and the latest news on upcoming movies (Star Wars, Blood Sisters and Divergent).

For SBLC, Maria reviews Warm Bodies the book and Kelly gives us a major hint on who Sookie may pick at the end of the Sookie Stackhouse series.

Plus, you’ll hear the latest news and spoilers on your favorite shows!

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Gothica – A sexy, modern gothic soap weaves together the mythologies of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray, among others.

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Believe, is about the unlikely relationship between a girl in possession of a great gift/powers — which will come into their own in seven years — and the man who is sprung from prison to protect her from those trying to hunt her down. Cuarón, Friedman, Abrams and Bryan Burk are executive producing for Warner Bros TV and Abrams’ Bad Robot. Cuarón is attached to direct.

Abrams is having a really great week.

The pilot is described as an action-packed buddy cop show, set in the near future, when all Lapd officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. The pilot is written and executive produced by J.H. Wyman (Fringe) with Abrams and Bryan Burk as executive producers.

Great week for J.J. Abrams.

Oxygen, an alien drama in the vein of District 9, hails from Space Floor TV’s Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec and Scott Rosenberg and Olé Prods’ Richard Shepard, Sean Furst and Bryan Furst. It was written by Averill (The Good Wife). All will exec produce the CBS TV Studios project, based on a format developed by Daniel Gutman of Pow Wow and Spanish producer Isla Producciones.

The Hundred, a sci-fi series set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. A spaceship housing the lone human survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. The project is based on upcoming Alloy books written by Kass Morgan and published by Little, Brown. Warner Bros TV, which owns Alloy Entertainment, is producing, with Rothenberg and Alloy’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo executive producing. – Deadline

The Zombieland revamp will feature the four main characters from the original film. Amazon Studios will be distributing the series as 30-minute installments as part of its Instant Video Service.

Will you watch this series?

I know that we have been covering pilot news, but the following pilot was spoke of towards the end of 2012 and we just want to say how excited we are about a scary take on vampires. Sorry True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and Being Human. The pilot we are gushing about revolves around Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain.

The Mexican Maestro stated the following about his project:

“We’re planning to shoot the pilot in August. Pacific Rim comes out in July. Right after Pacific Rim we go into pilot shooting. We are already prepping the pilot starting next week. The pilot has been approved so it’s green-lit. It’s not a matter of if; it’s a matter of when. Our expectations are for FX to move ahead with the series next fall and winter and for the series to air in 2014.”

“Basically I’m trying to do what I do in my movies, which is to show it as a reality, but as a reality that is stylized. It’s not like ‘CSI’ or ‘The Wire’; it’s real, but it feels a little stylized. But the way the camera work will be is very realistic. We want to keep the camera very documentary even if the look of the show is not. The look of the show is very designed. The style of the camera and the storytelling will be very loose. It will evolve from that feel of reality, and little by little we want to evolve into a more stylish, horror feel that requires smoother camera moves, more suspense and atmosphere-driven moments so it will be a mixture. I don’t think that mixture has been seen a lot on TV.” (via MTV)

Here are the details of the book that this pilot is based on:

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim “Eph” Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city – a city that includes his wife and son – before it is too late.

Now, this show will also have to contend with another Guillermo del Toro tv show, The Incredible Hulk. This show is in pre-production and will hopefully air in 2014. Are these shows the signs of del Toro’s quest to conquer a new medium? Hope so.