Last week TVLine sat down with The Vampire Diaries executive producer Julie Plec to talk about what happened in the season 4 finale and what could possibly happen in season 5. Thankfully, she mentioned Michael’s character Tyler and a return for the next season. Read on to find out what she said:

TVLINE | It seemed like Caroline and Tyler are poised for a reunion. Will Michael Trevino be back next season as a regular?
Michael Trevino is still under contract. When he’ll return, we can’t say yet. He is going to have the opportunity to return to Caroline’s life in Mystic Falls. The question is, will he want to take it, given everything he’s been through since he’s been gone, which will be fun for us to learn — like what kind of life he’s been leading on the run.

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It definitely, definitely wasn’t a Happy Valentine’s Day for “Vampire Diaries” fans tonight. Though we’ve grown accustomed to saying goodbye to beloved characters at the end of every season, we thought we were safe after Kol’s demise. Not so much.

In tonight’s episode, all was not well in Mystic Falls… or on the mysterious Island where the gang presumed Silas is buried. The episode ended with Continue Reading

I don’t know if you would consider this a spoiler since it doesn’t really give anything away but here you go anyway.

Question: I would dearly love some hints to narrow down who’s dying soon onThe Vampire Diaries. Is it a male or female character? And does the death stick? —Audrey

Ausiello: Fun fact: Lost amid all this departure chatter is the potentially bigger news of an imminent, shocking and much-anticipated return.

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How will Tyler react to Klaus killing his friends and mother on The Vampire Diaries? —Sarah

NATALIE: Not well. But don’t expect him to go cry about it. “Tyler’s not going to stand and take it,”Michael Trevino tells us. “It’s the realization that he had his one chance of attacking Klaus and that didn’t work, which is disheartening, [but now] he has to go for broke and figure out a way to do it, whether it’s gathering people to align with again or going at it by himself.”

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The holiday season’s biggest lump of coal — the rash of reruns — is over, and we have scoop to prove it!

All your favorites — from cable dramas such as Justified and Pretty Little Liars to those that took a winter hiatus (like Big Bang Theory, Once Upon a Time and Bones) — will soon be back with fresh episodes.

To help you prepare for the onslaught of returns and premieres, TVLine presents a gallery that will not only catch you up on where the action left off, but also spill juicy spoilers about what’s ahead.

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Longtime The Vampire Diaries fans might have their suspicions that the CW hit only decided to stage a Christmas episode as an excuse to couple scary mass murder with delightful holiday cheer, but showrunnerJulie Plec tells Hollywood.com that the series’ first holiday outing in four seasons was more of a happy scheduling coincidence.

“We don’t do seasons in Mystic Falls,” Plec says. “We try not to be specific about a seasonal timeline, but it felt like we’re four seasons in, this is the first time we’ve had an episode air this close to Christmas — usually we’re on hiatus. Won’t it be fun to give a little bit of a holiday flavor to this episode so that we can do our great juxtaposition opera of blood and mayhem against the beauty and nostalgia of holiday music?”

Klaus’ rage over Tyler’s betrayal certainly played out beautifully, capping off his evil tirade by drowning a drunk Mayor Lockwood in the town square. But in addition to the loss of a beloved character (RIP), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” piled on a lot of mythology and plenty of plot details to think about until the show comes back from its holiday hiatus on Jan. 17. Here’s what Plec had to say about our own burning questions, which of course multiplied as soon as we hung up the phone with the TVD boss lady.

What’s Tyler’s mindset once he finds out about his mother?
Tyler’s first order of business actually is to mourn. This is the last thing he ever expected that would happen, and the loss of his mom is a pretty powerful thing for him. When we come back we’re going to see he’s not actually doing so well. He’s got some stuff to deal with before he’s going to pull himself together.

Is it safe to say the cure is the last thing on his mind?
Oh yeah, for sure. He’s if anything reeling and looking over his shoulder wondering if Klaus is there to chop his head off. Also, I’m sure [he's] trying to figure out if there’s any move he can make or anything he can do to regain the upper hand against Klaus, although it looks pretty bleak. It’s not without its solutions, but it ain’t pretty.

How is the state of his relationship with Caroline?
It’s currently a little bit tested because of the events of this episode, but thankfully they were able to make things right with each other before tragedy struck. Caroline’s going to be more concerned about him when we come back and really want to reconnect with him and make him open up to her so that she can help him heal from this experience. Ultimately, both of them as we get deeper into the next chapter, will have to finally sort of face the Klaus problem head on and figure out what to do.

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What will the next chapter of this season focus on?
This next chapter is all about that hunter’s mark and trying to complete it and trying to get our team to the location of the cure, which the more we learn about it and the more we’ll learn about Silas the more we’ll recognize there’s extreme jeopardy attached to even seeking it out in the first place. Very quickly our teams will be divided and realize that they all have different agendas, different wants, and different motives. It’s going to be a little bit of a race to who gets there first. As Rebekah says in the next episode, whoever gets to it first decides what to do with it, how to use it, who to use it on, who not to, how to control it. It’s a power play, and she wants to come out on top.

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Death, break-ups and some killer urges plagued The Vampire Diaries winter finale earlier this month.

After the eventful episode, TVLine spoke with executive producer Julie Plec about the loss of Tyler’s mom, Damon and Elena’s struggles and the future of Caroline and Klaus.

And now we have even more scoop from that chat, so read on to find out how the Christmas outing will affect the Salvatore brothers’ relationship, whether Caroline and Tyler are going to make it through this rough patch and what’s in store for Jeremy, romantically and professionally (he’s a hunter now, you know).

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TVLINE | Tyler’s grown a lot this season. Will recent events help him mature further or set him back?
It’s a setback in that his confidence came from this feeling that he had a place and he had people that were looking to him. As his mom said, “You’re a leader of people like your father was.” He was really growing into that, and to feel like they all paid the price for that confidence will definitely set him back a bit. The question is, how will he rebound from that?

TVLINE | Are Caroline and Tyler OK?
Tyler’s going to struggle, and Caroline’s going to struggle in trying to help him. But if there’s one thing those two have proven again and again, it’s that when situations are at their most dire and their most extreme, they find a way to be there for each other. I think we can rest easy that that won’t have changed yet.

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In case you hadn’t noticed, we think Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) is totally crushing on Tyler (Michael Trevino). The Vampire Diaries’ newest werewolf plays it cool around Caroline (Candice Accola), but in addition to her alliance with shadyProfessor Shane (David Alpay), it seems clear to us that she’s also harboring some love for the hot hybrid.

While we speculated that Phoebe Tonkin’s new haircut might mean Hayley would meet an untimely death, it seems she’ll be keeping Mystic Falls on its toes for some time to come. In a recent interview with the Sun Hearld, Phoebe said that while she took a few weeks to hang in her native Australia, after the holidays, she’ll return to the TVD set.

In Season 4, Episode 7, “My Brother’s Keeper,” she asked Shane to keep Tyler out of whatever they need all those un-sired hybrids for. Clearly she feels for Ty, but if Shane’s plan involves sacrificing the hybrids, we’d expect Mr. Lockwood to turn on her, too.

But by then, will Caroline have already found happiness with a much older (and eviler) hybrid?

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