Series like The Vampire Diaries

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   Legacies

   Same creator

   2018 · 43 min · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   In a place where young witches, vampires, and werewolves are nurtured to be their best selves in spite of their worst impulses, Klaus Mikaelson’s daughter, 17-year-old Hope Mikaelson, Alaric Saltzman’s twins, Lizzie and Josie Saltzman, among others, come of age into heroes and villains at The Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted.

   Why it connects

   • the same creator
   • strong shared themes: supernatural and vampire
   • similar audience response

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   The Tomorrow People

   Same creator

   2013 · 60 min · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   The story of several young people from around the world who represent the next stage in human evolution, possessing special powers, including the ability to teleport and communicate with each other telepathically. Together they work to defeat the forces of evil.

   Why it connects

   • the same creator
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Originals

   Similar atmosphere

   2013 · 45 min · Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   The Vampire Diaries spin-off that follows the Mikaelsons, a family of millennia-old, power-hungry vampires who want to reclaim the city they built, New Orleans, and dominate all those who have wronged them.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: vampire and werewolf
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Supernatural

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   2005 · 45 min · Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.

   Why it connects

   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared themes: supernatural and witch
   • a closely matched era

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   The Secret Circle

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   2011 · 42 min · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake moves in with her grandmother in the small town of Chance Harbor, Washington. As she gets to know her high school classmates, strange and frightening things begin to happen. They are all descended from powerful witches, and they've been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle. What they don't yet know is that darker powers are at play and that Cassie's mother's death might not have been an accident.

   Why it connects

   • strong shared themes: based on young adult novel and supernatural
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Tell Me a Story

   Same creator

   2018 · 50 min · Drama

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   The world's most beloved fairy tales reimagined as a dark and twisted psychological thriller.

   Why it connects

   • the same creator
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared network: Outerbanks Entertainment

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   Vampire Academy

   Same creator

   2022 · 47 min · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society. Based on the young adult novels by Richelle Mead.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same creator
   • strong genre and series-style overlap

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   Wasteland

   Same creator

   1999 · 60 min · Drama

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   Six post-collegiate professionals in New York City bond as they struggle to make sense of pointless jobs and unrequited love.

   Why it connects

   • the same creator
   • substantial genre overlap
   • shared network: Outerbanks Entertainment

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   Time After Time

   Same creator

   2017 · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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   A young H.G. Wells time travels to modern day New York City in pursuit of the charismatic—yet secretly psychopathic—Dr. John Stevenson, better known as "Jack the Ripper," following the doctor's brazen escape from the Victorian London authorities.

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   • the same creator
   • strong genre and series-style overlap
   • shared network: Warner Bros. Television, Outerbanks Entertainment

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    Fringe

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    2008 · Drama · Mystery · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
    • similar audience response

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