Thanks to Christine of Warner Brothers for sending us these photos from the Paley Fest! Photos include Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, Julie Plec, Kevin Williamson, Bob Levy and also Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment, The CW and Warner Bros. Television President Peter Roth.

(L-R): Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment, The CW, series start Ian Somerhalder, and Warner Bros. Television President Peter Roth. (C) Warner Bros. Television Entertainment/ Mitch Haddad.

(L-R): Series star Nina Dobrev and Warner Bros. Television President Peter Roth. © Warner Bros. Television Entertainment/ Mitch Haddad.

(L-R): Executive Producer Bob Levy, series star Paul Wesley, series star Ian Somerhalder, Executive Producer Julie Plec, Executive Producer Kevin Williamson, Warner Bros. Television President Peter Roth, and series star Nina Dobrev. © Warner Bros. Television Entertainment/ Mitch Haddad.

(L-R): Series stars Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, and Ian Somerhalder. © Warner Bros. Television Entertainment/ Mitch Haddad.

(L-R): Series star Ian Somerhalder and Executive Producer Kevin Williamson. © Warner Bros. Television Entertainment/ Mitch Haddad.

(L-R): Series stars Ian Somerhalder, Nina Dobrev, and Paul Wesley. © Warner Bros. Television Entertainment/ Mitch Haddad.

Thanks to @VDiaries_se for the heads up on this video from TV Guide Magazine! There has got to be one out there of Melinda’s hug from Paul!! Where is it!! LOL

This article from William Keck of TV Guide Magazine is one of many circulating the net from the Paley Fest.  But here, Keck addresses the cliffhangers we were left with in the last episode, Elena’s search for her mother, and where our favorite witch Bonnie will be.

Many of the cliffhangers fans were left with when the last original episode aired will be addressed on March 25, when the next original episode, titled “A Few Good Men,” airs. Paley guests were treated to an advance screening of the episode, which (trust us) takes Damon’s cruelty to a whole new level. By the end of the hour, you’ll be left wondering how Elena can ever even speak to him again. “Some truths are revealed and the episode ends on a major bang,” teases Paul Wesley (Stefan). He’s not kidding.

With Elena (Nina Dobrev) just having learned she’s adopted, she begins a dangerous search for her birth mother, whom keen viewers know shares a connection to Alaric Saltzman. The revelations, says Nina Dobrev (Elena) will “intensify her love/hate relationship with Damon. His actions to achieve what he wants are truly horrible.”

But the episode offers more light-hearted moments, as Damon takes part in a charity bachelor auction alongside Alaric. “It’s a lot of fun,” teases Ian Somerhalder (Damon). A future episode will find Damon meeting up with Matt’s mom, Kelly (The O.C.’s Melinda Clarke) at a bar. “Much to the chagrin of Matt,” Somerhalder says. “They hit it off and end up hooking up.”

One face was absent from the episode — Katerina Graham, who plays Bonnie Bennett. She’ll be off the canvas for three episodes “grieving the death of Grams”, explains creator Kevin Williamson. “She goes off to stay with family, but comes back with an attitude.”

Adds co-executive producer Julie Plec: “Bonnie’s been nothing but supportive of Elena’s relationship with Stefan up until this point, but given everything that’s happened — the tomb didn’t quite get closed and Grams died for nothing, it’s going to be difficult for her to be a good friend.”

Read the rest of the article.

Zap2it caught up with Ian Somerhalder at Paley Fest, and he had some interesting tidbits to share.

Here are some great shots of Ian, Nina and Paul at the Panel Discussion at the Paley Fest. Thanks to Nina Dobrev Fan for the heads up and you can view the rest HERE.

Just wanted to let you guys know that The Vampire Diaries Cast and Creative Team will be featured at Paley Fest this year.  This news has been out a while, so I apologize for just now posting.  Tickets are now on sale for members and the general public. Here are deets on the event!

The Vampire Diaries

Saturday, March 6, 2010
7:00 pm PT
Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills

In Person

Cast and creative team to be announced.

Tortured love, toothsome characters, snappy dialogue laced with pop-culture references . . . no wonder The Vampire Diaries is one of the most buzzed-about new shows. Developed by Kevin Williamson (Dawson’s Creek, the Scream trilogy) and Julie Plec (Kyle XY) and based on the young-adult novels by L.J. Smith, this slickly produced CW series centers on recently orphaned high school coed Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrey) and her love affair with the benevolent and brooding (what else?) 162-year-old vampire Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley). Stefan’s blood-sucking bro Damon (Ian Somerhalder) is on hand to stir things up. Slate’s Troy Patterson calls the series’s Virgina setting, “a blank canvas for the primal emotions of adolescence—confusing lust, simmering angst, sibling-rivalrous spite, and the aching quest for self-reinvention.”