The First Time

There is nothing I love more than a romantic teen comedy.  I'm a sucker for this genre having been brought up on a steady diet of 80's RTC - the era which really did it best...think Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, The Sure Thing etc.
There is a new RTC on the horizon and the more I looked in to it the more excited I got. 
THE FIRST TIME stars two actors that I adore.  Miss Britt Robertson (Life Unexpected, Secret Circle) and the amazing Mr Dylan O'Brien who blew me away in Teen Wolf as a first time actor.  For those of you over the age of 20 think Pacey Witter from Dawson's Creek and you'll get a fair idea of Dylan's charms.

THE FIRST TIME is released this month and centers on the first weekend of a fledgling romance between two high school kids. Check out the trailer and see what you think.  I'm completely sold already.  It is directed by Jon Kasdan who's first film - In the Land Of Woman - is a favourite of mine.

(Oh and Victoria Justice is in it playing the dream girl and I'm a closet 'Victorious' fan so it just gets better and better.  Keep an eye out also for 'Marcia Brady'!)

The Secret Circle

Based upon the book series by L.J. Smith (author of The Vampire Diaries book series), THE SECRET CIRCLE is the newest pilot to be picked up.  There has been a lot of buzz about this show due to it's ties to Vampire Diaries and it's executive producer Kevin Williamson (Dawson's Creek, Vampire Diaries etc).  I'm particularly interested due to two of its cast members.  The lead role is played by Britt Robertson who won my heart in 'Life Interrupted' and our very own Phoebe Tonkin (H2O Just Add Water, Tomorrow When The World Began) also has a major role.
But quite frankly any TV show made from a young adult book has my vote and  C.W. shows are always pretty so I'm in.



Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson) was a happy, normal teenage girl — until her mother Amelia dies in what appears to be a tragic accidental fire. Orphaned and deeply saddened, Cassie moves in with her warm and loving grandmother Jane in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Wash. — the town her mother left so many years before — where the residents seem to know more about Cassie than she does about herself. As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana (Shelley Hennig) and her handsome boyfriend Adam (Thomas Dekker), brooding loner Nick (Louis Hunter), mean-girl Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) and her sidekick Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy), strange and frightening things begin to happen. When her new friends explain that 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, Cassie refuses to believe them — until Adam shows her how to unlock her incredible magical powers. But it’s not until Cassie discovers an old leather-bound book of spells hidden in her mother’s childhood bedroom that she understands her true and dangerous destiny. What Cassie and the others don’t yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town, including Diana’s father (Gale Harold) and Faye’s mother (Natasha Henstridge) — and that Cassie’s mother’s death might not have been an accident.