Moonlight TV Show

The folklore behind the conception of ‘Moonlight’

Moonlight tv show ran for a single season, which was also shorter than the seasons of most shows. Generally, most of the TV shows’ seasons last 22 episodes, the animation series’ seasons even go longer than it. However, Moonlight season consisted of 16 episodes only. The series opener didn’t get a good response from the critics but was a well received one by the viewers. For many critics, the writing and acting of various actors was not satisfactory, however Jason Dohring was appraised for his performance. The WGA strike had its effect on the series and it went on a temporary hiatus. As the strike ended, the show returned with four new episodes and even before the airing of the series finale, CBS Network made an official announcement to bring the show to an end.

Okay, have you ever pondered over the concepts behind the vampire dramas? Actually, a unique vampire mythology is there behind the conventions of such kind of dramas. And, through this post, I would let you know some rules of such mythology. Do you know why vampires get activated at night more than day? The reason is sunlight. The light of the day weakens the vampires. It doesn’t kill them, but makes them weak and they can’t carry out their missions. That’s why we always see vampires biting people in the dark!

Have you ever watched the photograph of any vampire? Probably not, as it’s assumed that the analogue cameras can’t capture the images of vampires,…..don’t know, haven’t tried yet! It’s also said that in order to survive, the vampires need to feed on the blood of human beings…..they don’t eat fruits, grain or vegetables etc. How to kill a vampire? Just burn it or decapitate it, no alternative is available. The much heightened senses help the vampires to hear clearly as well as smell the past. They can also have a glimpse of the future, due to their psychic abilities.

So, above are some rules which most of the vampire dramas follow. The examples are- Moonlight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel etc. Click here to join the website, if want to download the episodes of Moonlight and any other TV show, which you are a fan of!

May 14th, 2009 under News | Comment »

CBS Adopts ‘Moonlight’ Actor, Cast Members Pursue Other Projects

While some have already packed their bags and tidied up their camp sites following the campaign to bring Moonlight back to CBS, quite a number of fans are still clamoring for the return of the much-loved series which starred Alex O’Loughlin and Sophia Miles.  The series, which only survived a season with a little under an average of 7.5 million viewers, was cut by CBS earlier this year because the network claimed that the ratings weren’t sufficient enough for a renewal.  Moreover, CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler admitted that unlike Jericho, the resurrected series with a passionate fanbase, Moonlight’s fans tend to support the actor behind it rather than the series itself.

“The response to Moonlight was actually more actor-centric, so I think it certainly measures our decision on the show,” Tassler told reporters at the TCA last month.

Apparently CBS saw the potential in the Australian actor and has signed him on for a one-year deal (which includes CBS’ sister studios CBS Paramount and ABC Studios) which will have him playing the central character in the new series currently being developed by producer Mark Gordon, whose credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Army Wives and Criminal Minds. Moreover, the deal will also provide O’Loughlin with a few movie projects with CBS Films.

O’Loughlin will soon be appearing in the feature film Whiteout, while his Moonlight co-star Sophia Myles appeared in the recently released Outlander, in which she played Viking warrior princess Freya, who battles extraterrestrials. The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival. Currently, Myles is working on the film Buddha’s Little Finger, which is set to be released next year.

As for Moonlight co-star Jason Dohring, who played Mick St. John’s 400-year-old best buddy, he says that he is currently in the process of landing other acting projects.

“More recently since I’ve been done with Moonlight, I’ve sorted some stuff out in my career, just personally about where I want to go,” Jason Dohring said in an interview with the Review Times last month.  “I think that I worked out a couple things for myself, kind of what I want to create in the world with being a celebrity.”

He adds that he would like to try taking the lead in the next project that comes his way.  He explains, “It was like all of a sudden I realized I could do it and I was like excited to try to do that, be a leading man.  And I saw the amount of good that you can do, that you can use that platform to effect change in the world and that was exciting to me.”

August 22nd, 2008 under News | Comment »

CBS chief doesn’t question ‘Moonlight’ choice

While CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler insists she still has great adoration for all things occult, she has yet to feel regret about the decision to leave Moonlight off of the network’s fall schedule.

“Everybody knows I love vampires — vampires, witches, warlocks, I love them all,” Tassler tells reporters at Friday (July 18) morning’s Television Critics Association press tour.

That love does precious little good for fans of Moonlight, which averaged just under 7.5 million viewers in a single season of Friday night airings. On a purely empirical level, the ratings for Moonlight were insufficient to justify renewal, but nobody has questioned the dedication of the show’s fanbase.

What Tassler questions is the nature of that dedication.

“The response to Moonlight was actually more actor-centric, so I think it certainly measures our decision on the show,” Tassler says. “Right now, like I said, I don’t question the choice we made. I’m not getting as much mail and most of those comments were actor-centric.”

What she’s implying is that in their teeth-gnashing and garment-rending, protesters came across as fans of Alex O’Loughlin, rather than fans of the show.

She contrasts the tone of the Moonlight discussion with the campaign that resurrected another low-rated CBS drama, a little show called Jericho.

“You know what’s interesting? Most of the e-mails and viewer mail on Jericho were very show-centric,” Tassler insists. “There was a marked contrast. Look. I went online and I read all those things. Trust me, when you’re a Queen Ranger, you have to. But like I said, most of the comments on Jericho were really about the show and every detail about the show, where mostly with Moonlight, it was about Alex.”

On the subject of Jericho, Tassler continues, “Let’s remember that when those e-mails and that campaign started, we hadn’t seen anything like that before. Not to mention the peanuts. But I’m saying that you, you had an internet campaign the likes of which we had never seen before, so we didn’t know what the outcome was going to be, but it was certainly worth giving it a try.”

Tassler adds that just because one fan campaign brought Jericho back from the dead, but a different campaign failed to do the same for Moonlight doesn’t mean that the grass roots avenue is now closed for good.

“No. I think you’re gonna have to look at each as a case-by-case scenario,” she says. “And let’s not forget that all of that, the e-mails, the barrage of the peanuts and the letters and everything, you’ve got people that are passionate and at no point are you going to say ‘We don’t want that.’”

If it makes Moonlight fans any better — and I have zero urge to make them feel worse — CBS has paid heed to that actor-centric love for O’Loughlin. Asked if the network would welcome the Aussie actor back on a new or established show, Tassler doesn’t hesitate.

“Sure, we’d love to.”

August 1st, 2008 under News | Comment »

Moonlight Gallery

from episode 4, Fever

from episode 2, Out of the Past

from episode 2, Out of the Past

from episode 4, Fever

July 21st, 2008 under General | Comment »

Moonlight Reviews

There’s something strangely sexy about a man who has the power to take a life, yet doesn’t. When that man became an immortal not by choice but through trickery, it makes him all the more enticing. His vulnerability as a victim gives him that edge. Mick St. John, the unwilling vampire of “Moonlight”, thought he had married his one and only, Coraline, until she turned’ him. Then, he sees her for the villain she is.

Mick isn’t an ages old vampire, as other fictional vamps. He’s less than a century old, rather new to the night life, so to speak. When we join private detective/vampire, Mick, he becomes reacquainted with Beth Turner, the little girl he saved from his wife years before. Now Beth is all grown up, and a temptation Mick must resist. With each episode, the sexual tension grows between mortal and immortal.

Almost every week of season one provided a new twist to the story of Mick’s wife, Coraline. She is the most difficult character to describe. First we are led to believe she was a courtesan in France around the time of the revolution. Then we discover she somehow survived being burned to death twenty years earlier when she returns as Morgan, a co-worker of Beth’s. By the end of the season, we discover she is really the niece of Louis XV, and has a temporary cure to vampirism. Confused? Um, me too. But the cure appears to be the driving force behind the next season’s storyline.

This series works for viewers like me, because of the romantic angle, and humor. Throughout the season, Beth’s boyfriend, Josh is an obstacle to the romance between mortal and vampire. Vampirism itself is, in Mick’s opinion, the other. In his words, “It never ends well.” However, at the end, Josh is killed. Now we are left to wonder if Mick’s refusal to turn the dying Josh into a vampire has an effect on Beth’s feelings for him.

Other interesting turns this series took in its first season include the softer side of Joseph, Mick’s ancient friend. Joseph is portrayed as a hard-hearted, yet playful millionaire. Hundreds of years have left him seemingly with no regard for mortal life, but respectful of the code vampires live by. Or so we are led to believe, until we learn of his true love, whom he tried to turn in the 1950’s. She still lives, but is in a coma in New York. Obviously, something went direly wrong.

More minor secondary characters are a young looking techie vampire, used as a research source in investigations and “the Cleaner,” a female vampire who takes care of obviously vampirized mortals. She cleans up after accidental killings and apparently takes care of the extremely careless vampires who may bring mortal scrutiny upon the vamp community. Both of these minor characters add to the charm of “Moonlight.”

All in all, season one did its job. It got this household hooked on the romance, intrigue and humor that is “Moonlight.” We will be watching season two when it begins later this month.

By: Sheila Holloway.

July 21st, 2008 under Reviews | Comment »