'The Vampire Diaries': First Promo Pic & Preview!

Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder get serious for the first promo shot for season four of The Vampire Diaries.

Season four kicks off on Thursday, October 11th @ 8PM ET/PT with Elena (Dobrev) waking up as a vampire!

Executive producer Julie Plec told TVLine, “All these things that she’s experienced with Damon (Somerhalder) and with Stefan (Wesley) will have different context for her as she’s becoming this new person. This circumstance, which is pretty horrific, is going to make them all care about each other even more deeply and argue even more intensely and fracture even more greatly and love as deeply as possible.”