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".
Kevin Williamson (screenwriter)
In 2018, Williamson created "Tell Me A Story", a psychological thriller based on the Mexican television series Érase una vez, who takes "the world’s most beloved fairy tales and reimagines them as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. The pilot was also directed by Friedlander (who also directed episodes of "The Vampire Diaries", "The Following" and "Stalker" for Williamson) and starred James Wolk, Billy Magnussen, Dania Ramirez, Kim Cattrall, Danielle Campbell and Paul Wesley. The latter was one of the main actors in Williamson's previous show, "The Vampire Diaires". The show began airing on CBS All Access in October 31, 2018.