The Vampire Diaires will have a series of short webisodes online as well as the regular TV series. I’ll be covering them for you here, so you won’t miss any. Be sure to follow me on Twitter, because I’ll announce the new ones as I post them that way. Here’s the beginning of the mystery.:

Jason Harris travels to Mystic Falls to find Stefan Salvatore, his sister’s killer. [Source: TV.com]

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As I told you a few days ago, I had the opportunity to help interview one of the stars of the new Web series created by NBC. Tony Hale stars in the series CTRL and is a really interesting and seriously nice guy. I had a blast talking to him and think you’ll enjoy what he had to say too. Here’s the conversation:

Q: I was wondering, how were you approached to make this particular short-film into a Web series?

Tony Hale: Sure. We did a – I guess it was about two years ago, Rob Kirbyson, the director, had the idea and wrote the idea of "Ctrl Z". It was a short film that he was producing and he approached me to play Stuart.

And, at that time, he also approached Zachary Levi to play the boss and then Emy Coligado was also playing the girl. But we did the short film and it went to Sundance and the Delta, kind of film competition and fortunately it won. People really liked it so then Tom Bannister and NBC approached Rob to make the short film that we did into a Web series which was really exciting because it was fun with the short film, there was really mainly the focus of “Ctrl Z” which is the undo button.

And with the Web series you can focus on a lot more keys on the keyboard and kind of the power and the magic that could happen with those. So, I thought it was a really fun idea and it turned out to be just a lot of fun so I’m glad it happened.

Q: I’m sure you’re asked a lot but if there was something in your life you could undo, do you have a particular moment or event?

Tony Hale: That is so funny. You think I would have thought of this question before coming into the interview and I just did not.

Let me think, if there’s anything I could undo – usually when I want to undo things it’s like right on the moment because I look to the stuff that I go through in my life and something always comes out for a reason so I’m doing that. But, it’s always that when you say something that’s just so asinine and so stupid, you’re like, ahh, if I could just, please, have an undo button just to not say that. So, it’s usually in the moment but there’s many times I’ve had that moment.

Q: How has you’re comedic style and sense of timing changed since “Arrested Development” do you think?

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It’s a funny name of a series, right? But that’s because it’s about a guy with a magical keyboard. Everytime he hits the CTRL key, he gets to do the last thing over…a lot like the way a lot of us type.

Imagine the power of being able to change events with a keyboard. I love it! And I think you will too. NBC has created a series of webisodes based on the idea in the movie CTRL Z. The series stars Tony Hale, of Arrested Development and Chuck. He’s a terrific character actor and makes the series ery believable. Well, as much as can be expected, anyway.

Here’s an episode of CTRL:

You can follow the entire series on NBC’s web site, so head over there and check it out. And be sure to return here in the next day or so for my interview with the star, Tony Hale.

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