'Vampire Diaries' Producers Developing New Series

The Vampire Diaries will end its eight-season run on The CW next year, but the executive team behind the series will make the transition to a new series for the network. This new venture won't have vampires in it (as far as we know, at this point), but given that TVD's entire producing team will be on board, there's a good chance that the series will appeal to TVD fans.

The series will be called Rise, and it will follow a ragtag group of American citizens who sow the seeds of rebellion against governmental tyrrany after a terrorist attck leads to the imposition of martial law. Julie Plec, creator and showrunner of TVD, will be the showrunner and executive producer of Rise. TVD producers Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux are will also serve as executive producers of the new project and will write the script for the series' pilot.

When TVD ends, it will leave its sister series The Originals on the network to carry on the vampire tradition, but there will be other vampires coming to the network as well. The CW recently announced that it is developing a series adaptation of the 1987 teenage vampire movie The Lost Boys.