Morganville The Series
Amber Benson as Amelie
Supernatural fiction fans out there, you'll no doubt recognize the name Morganville as the setting for Rachel Caine's phenomenally successful MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES series of novels. Morganville is a town in Texas like no other in that it's run entirely by vampires. The series spans 15 books and has millions of devoted followers. Unlike other similar series, however, (such as the ever popular Harry Potter series), Morganville has never been made into a film or TV series.
Rachel decided that had to change so in the summer 2013 she announced plans to produce a series of TV quality webisodes. To direct and produce the series, Rachel has enlisted the services of Blake Calhoun who is responsible for bringing a string of web shows to the world including: PINK-The Series and many more.
To turn these ambitious plans into a reality Rachel launched a Kickstarter Campaign with the aim of raising $75,000 to put the series into production. The campaign began with very exciting news Amber Benson was attached to the project to play non other than Morganville Town Founder Amelie. After so many years of Buffy under her belt, it appears to be a case of "If you can't slay them, join them". Now of course we all know that it won't be Amber's first time playing a vampire. Who could forget her brilliant performance as Lenore on the hit television show SUPERNATURAL, or her voice over capabilities as Vampire Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds?
In return for a donation to help fund the project Rachel and her team offered a range of rewards. Anything from thank you on Twitter, all the way up to a cameo role in the series, or even your own co-producer credit and of course everything in between including DVDs and posters so there was something on offer to suit every budget. Fans of Morganville & Amber responded in great numbers to support this unique project. When the campaign came to an end on the 11th of July it had smashed it’s original target raising a total of $81,752.
Morganville the series began filming on location in Texas on 7 April 2014. This was an exciting day for all fans of the series whether you’re a long-time reader or a relative newcomer like myself, as if that weren't enough there were two major announcements made guaranteed to get fans buzzing.
Firstly Geek and Sundry the online TV channel and multimedia platform and production company co-founded by actress Felicia Day announced it would be adding Morganville to its line-up of shows including tabletop and Caper from the summer of 2014. If you are unfamiliar with Felicia's name she is the creator and star of hit web series The Guild and star of Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog as well as having appeared on a number of US network television shows such as House, Dollhouse and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I always said that girl had potential. To read more about this exciting linkup between Morganville and Geek and Sundry click here to read the exclusive story first featured on Hollywood Reporter.com.
The second piece of major news was that the full cast of Morganville The Series has now been confirmed. We have of course known that Amber will play the part of town founder Amelie the question remained who would join her now we have the answer the cast is as follows:
We now know the co-starring alongside Amber will be a name familiar to Stargate fans Robert Picardo who star as Oliver alongside:
Lindsay Seidel as Claire Danvers
Jordan Farris as Shane Collins
Ben Easter as Michael Glass
Haileigh Todd as Eve Rosser
Afomia Hailemeskel as Monica Morrell
Chase Ryan Jeffery as Myrnin
Gregory Connors as Brandon
Nikki Donley as Hannah Moses
Jessi Mechler as Gina
Taylor Murphy as Jennifer
Rachel decided that had to change so in the summer 2013 she announced plans to produce a series of TV quality webisodes. To direct and produce the series, Rachel has enlisted the services of Blake Calhoun who is responsible for bringing a string of web shows to the world including: PINK-The Series and many more.
To turn these ambitious plans into a reality Rachel launched a Kickstarter Campaign with the aim of raising $75,000 to put the series into production. The campaign began with very exciting news Amber Benson was attached to the project to play non other than Morganville Town Founder Amelie. After so many years of Buffy under her belt, it appears to be a case of "If you can't slay them, join them". Now of course we all know that it won't be Amber's first time playing a vampire. Who could forget her brilliant performance as Lenore on the hit television show SUPERNATURAL, or her voice over capabilities as Vampire Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Chaos Bleeds?
In return for a donation to help fund the project Rachel and her team offered a range of rewards. Anything from thank you on Twitter, all the way up to a cameo role in the series, or even your own co-producer credit and of course everything in between including DVDs and posters so there was something on offer to suit every budget. Fans of Morganville & Amber responded in great numbers to support this unique project. When the campaign came to an end on the 11th of July it had smashed it’s original target raising a total of $81,752.
Morganville the series began filming on location in Texas on 7 April 2014. This was an exciting day for all fans of the series whether you’re a long-time reader or a relative newcomer like myself, as if that weren't enough there were two major announcements made guaranteed to get fans buzzing.
Firstly Geek and Sundry the online TV channel and multimedia platform and production company co-founded by actress Felicia Day announced it would be adding Morganville to its line-up of shows including tabletop and Caper from the summer of 2014. If you are unfamiliar with Felicia's name she is the creator and star of hit web series The Guild and star of Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible's Singalong Blog as well as having appeared on a number of US network television shows such as House, Dollhouse and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I always said that girl had potential. To read more about this exciting linkup between Morganville and Geek and Sundry click here to read the exclusive story first featured on Hollywood Reporter.com.
The second piece of major news was that the full cast of Morganville The Series has now been confirmed. We have of course known that Amber will play the part of town founder Amelie the question remained who would join her now we have the answer the cast is as follows:
We now know the co-starring alongside Amber will be a name familiar to Stargate fans Robert Picardo who star as Oliver alongside:
Lindsay Seidel as Claire Danvers
Jordan Farris as Shane Collins
Ben Easter as Michael Glass
Haileigh Todd as Eve Rosser
Afomia Hailemeskel as Monica Morrell
Chase Ryan Jeffery as Myrnin
Gregory Connors as Brandon
Nikki Donley as Hannah Moses
Jessi Mechler as Gina
Taylor Murphy as Jennifer
Robert Picardo (Oliver) & Amber Benson (Amelie)
This year's San Diego Comic Con saw the world premiere of the very first trailer for Morganville The Series. This gave an excited audience at the Morganville series panel hosted by Geek and Sundry their first look at Amber and co in character on screen for the first time. It was then released to fans who’d backed the original Kickstarter campaign for them to enjoy exclusively. Rachel and her team have now released the trailer on the 2nd August 2014 so that everyone can enjoy it.
Morganville enjoyed its world premiere this year at MCM London Comic Con where lucky guests were not only treated to the first two episodes of the series in full but series creator Rachel Caine was also in attendance for a panel with cast members:
Amber Benson “Amelie”
Robert Picardo “Oliver”
Lindsay Seidel “Claire Danvers”
Jordan Farris “Shane Collins”
Ben Easter “Michael Glass”
There was a Morganville screening and panel on both Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th of October. Lucky fans got the chance to meet Rachel, Amber, Robert, Lindsay, Jordan and Ben and get autographs and photographs with them all.
Monday, 27 October saw the release of episode one (The Glass House) and episode two (Bite Me) on the Geek and Sundry YouTube channel. Click the link below to watch both for free now. Geek and Sundry will show two episodes a day as part of their “Halloweek” celebrations.
Here is the direct link to Geek and Sundry’s Morganville page on YouTube where all the subsequent episodes will be posted throughout the week for fans to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954TvdqgzNfYdQ-btKcAKvWU
We will post direct links to both new episodes on the AmberBenson.TV Twitter feed and Facebook page to help you find them even faster.
For all the latest news on Morganville the series we recommend visiting their official Facebook page and twitter account for all the latest information and photographs from the set. Everything you need to know about Morganville the series can be found on their official webpage Morganvilleseries.com.
Here is a link to all the Morganville related posts in the “Latest Amber News” section of the site.
AmberBenson.TV co-creator Trista Holmes recently interviewed Morganville vampires series creator Rachel Caine for her own website spinecrakers.com. I’d like to thank Trista for generously allowing us to repost this fantastic interview here
Everyone at AmberBenson.TV are really looking forward to seeing Morganville The Series and will do our very best to keep up to you date with all the latest news.
Disclaimer Morganville The Web TV Series is the property of Rachel Caine and Pen Ultimate Productions LLC and her partners. AmberBenson.TV is not involved in any way with the production of this series we are simply spreading the word about another exciting project involving Amber Benson.
Amber Benson “Amelie”
Robert Picardo “Oliver”
Lindsay Seidel “Claire Danvers”
Jordan Farris “Shane Collins”
Ben Easter “Michael Glass”
There was a Morganville screening and panel on both Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th of October. Lucky fans got the chance to meet Rachel, Amber, Robert, Lindsay, Jordan and Ben and get autographs and photographs with them all.
Monday, 27 October saw the release of episode one (The Glass House) and episode two (Bite Me) on the Geek and Sundry YouTube channel. Click the link below to watch both for free now. Geek and Sundry will show two episodes a day as part of their “Halloweek” celebrations.
Here is the direct link to Geek and Sundry’s Morganville page on YouTube where all the subsequent episodes will be posted throughout the week for fans to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7atuZxmT954TvdqgzNfYdQ-btKcAKvWU
We will post direct links to both new episodes on the AmberBenson.TV Twitter feed and Facebook page to help you find them even faster.
For all the latest news on Morganville the series we recommend visiting their official Facebook page and twitter account for all the latest information and photographs from the set. Everything you need to know about Morganville the series can be found on their official webpage Morganvilleseries.com.
Here is a link to all the Morganville related posts in the “Latest Amber News” section of the site.
AmberBenson.TV co-creator Trista Holmes recently interviewed Morganville vampires series creator Rachel Caine for her own website spinecrakers.com. I’d like to thank Trista for generously allowing us to repost this fantastic interview here
Everyone at AmberBenson.TV are really looking forward to seeing Morganville The Series and will do our very best to keep up to you date with all the latest news.
Disclaimer Morganville The Web TV Series is the property of Rachel Caine and Pen Ultimate Productions LLC and her partners. AmberBenson.TV is not involved in any way with the production of this series we are simply spreading the word about another exciting project involving Amber Benson.
