The Vampire Diaries
The series premiere of "The Vampire Diaries" on September 10, 2009, gave The CW its biggest series premiere, scoring 4.91 million viewers. Adding in DVR numbers, the ratings for the premiere swelled to an official 5.7 million viewers. In 2016, a "New York Times" study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "as with several other shows that focus on the supernatural", "The Vampire Diaries" was "slightly more popular outside of cities. That said, the show's fandom has the smallest amount of spatial variation of all 50 shows".
List of The Vampire Diaries characters
In 2013, a spin-off television series based around the Mikaelson clan of vampires, called "The Originals", was ordered to series by The CW. Many of the characters on "The Originals" initially appeared on "The Vampire Diaries", including Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson.