Tell Me a Story Brings a Dark Twist On Fairy Tales

Ready yourselves for a new and dark interwoven serialized drama. CBS All Access presents, “Tell Me a Story.” Kevin Williamson, who brought you “Vampire Diaries,” is excited to be “stretching the wings” of his creativity by taking the fairy tales that we grew up with and turning them into something a little more sinister.

Fairy tales flipped to horror, “Tell Me A Story” gives a nod to Hansel and Gretel, The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. Each story taking dark turns yet still remaining topical. A few cast members joined Williamson on stage during Comic Con. Paul Wesley made it clear that he is more than happy to be playing a grown man instead of a 17 year old vampire this time around. Not attendance was Kim Cattrall who, along with a few of the other women cast mates, sent a video from the set in New York letting fans know that they were sorry to be missing SDCC but working hard while the boys played around.

Cattrall’s character may be a grandmother but she is most definitely NOT your typical granny in this series.

CBS All Access showed a quick snippet of some footage they had. It included everything an internet streaming platform can get away with. Plenty of drugs, violence, sex (from the looks of it pretty steamy sex), horror elements, and the occasional F bomb. “Tell Me a Story” isn’t like the other network fantasy shows, it is grittier and really takes these themes of the fairy tales to the a new limit.

The expected launch will be some time this October so if you don’t have CBS All Access, you might want to consider looking into it.

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Erin Jefferson-Foley (Mommy Fearest) is terrified of scary movies, gore and zombies. But she loves all things Halloween and Haunt related! Slowly but surely she has been dipping her toes into the realm of horror movies with great results. Pretty soon she will work her way up to watching a scary movie when it is dark outside. Erin has had a love affair with theme park Halloween events for the past 20 years. Her first time at an event was at Knott's Scary Farm in the late 80s when a family friend, a Knott's employee, escorted her into the park to watch Elvira and give her a behind the scenes tour. She was intrigued as she walked through the break room and realized that they were just people in masks and makeup. It seemed like only a short time later, Erin was performing for Halloween Haunt which led to her meeting the love of her life, her husband. Each year she cheers on her husband and his friends as they set up and run a home haunt. You can catch her helping with line control and repeating the same instructions over and over and over to the guests each night. She has been a professional dancer and actress for over 20 years. When she is not in the studio teaching dance or in her office writing, you can catch Mommy Fearest with her husband and two kids at various conventions throughout California. She enjoys Cosplay, Star Wars, Renaissance Faires, Halloween, haunted attractions, paranormal happenings, special effects makeup and horrible reality television shows.