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UK’s ITV Brings Vampire Diaries to iTunes before TV Air Dates

Vampire Diaries - Elena, Stefan, DamonDecember 11th, 2009 – ITV and Warner Bros will make each episode of “The Vampire Diaries” available for sale on Apple’s iTunes online before it broadcasts for the first time in the UK on ITV2.

The teen drama, which airs on The CW in the US (simultaneously with CTV in Canada), will not begin on British TV until February of 2010. In an effort to fight online piracy of the wildly popular show, the UK’s ITV decided to make episodes available online before their local air dates.

The delay of American television shows in England, and many countries around the world for that matter, has been an issue for fans for some time now. Some blockbuster Hollywood films are released simultaneously worldwide (or at least within a month of the US release) but the majority of mainstream TV series are still delayed, sometimes by as much as a year or longer. In an age where it’s become more convenient to download a TV show off a shady web site than to wait for a local air date, fans have often resorted to the internet for their favorite series. This is a step in the right direction in providing a legal alternative.

For fans in North America, “The Vampire Diaries” returns to The CW (US) and CTV (Canada) on January 14th, 2010.

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