Sixty years ago, Victoria Winters boarded a train bound for Collinsport, Maine, and television viewers were introduced to the strange world of Dark Shadows. What began on June 27, 1966, as a Gothic daytime serial about a young woman’s search for answers would eventually become something considerably stranger — and far more enduring. There were ghosts, […]
Listen to this artlce as read by Vampire & Slayers’ own Victoria Nearly 40 years after Kathryn Bigelow sent a murderous family of vampires tearing across the American Southwest, Near Dark may be getting another chance at life. A24 is developing a television series based on Bigelow’s 1987 cult classic, according to Dread Central, although “developing” remains […]
Listen to an audio version of this article as read by Vampire & Slayers’ Victoria More than four decades after British comedy legend Eric Morecambe dreamed up a vampire who didn’t quite fit in with the rest of the undead, The Reluctant Vampire is finally making the leap to television. The six-episode BBC comedy premieres Sunday, October […]
Listen to this article as read by V&S’ Victoria Nearly 30 years after Sarah Michelle Gellar first picked up a stake as Buffy Summers, the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star is once again facing creatures of the night — although this time her weapon of choice is garlic. Gellar has teamed with Buffalo Wild […]
Vampires are coming to Paramount — and they’ve already got Stephen King‘s seal of approval. Keith Rosson’s acclaimed 2025 horror novel Coffin Moon is being developed as a television series by Paramount Television Studios and Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s Iron Ocean. Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, whose credits include A Beautiful Day in the […]
For a character born in Gothic literature and made immortal by the silver screen, Count Dracula has also left a sizable—and often surprising—bite on television. From live anthology drama to romantic melodrama, Saturday-morning cartoons, prime-time reboots and streaming horror, Bram Stoker’s vampire has proven remarkably adaptable to the small screen. Television gave Dracula a different […]
It’s appropriate that a television series about vampires should prove unusually difficult to kill. Long before Joe Port and Joe Wiseman became the showrunners behind CBS’ Ghosts, the longtime writing partners came up with another supernatural comedy. Eternally Yours would follow Liz and Charles, two vampires who discovered that pledging your love for eternity sounds considerably more romantic […]
Universal’s legendary monsters may be returning to television — and this time, they may be entering the kind of serialized supernatural drama that defined early 2010s genre television. Writer-producer Kevin Williamson, co-creator of The Vampire Diaries and the architect behind the Scream franchise, recently revealed that he is developing a new series set within the […]
This interview with Forever Knight star Geraint Wyn Davies was conducted back in September 1995 when the show was early in its third season. Forever Knight (1992–1996) was a Canadian-produced supernatural crime drama that blended police procedural storytelling with gothic romance. The series followed Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a homicide detective in […]
Network television isn’t done with vampires just yet. According to Variety, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot Eternally Yours has added three new series regulars to its cast as the project continues to take shape. The show, from Ghosts creators Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, centers on a married vampire couple who have been together for 500 […]
Listen to this Article: From the outside, Collinwood —home base to the horror soap opera Dark Shadows — just looks like another grand New England estate. Sunnydale of Buffy the Vampire Slayers, appears to be an ordinary California town with a decent high school and an alarming mortality rate. True Blood‘s Bon Temps is a […]
When Barnabas Collins (Jonathan Frid) first stepped out of his coffin on Dark Shadows in 1967, viewers were introduced to a different kind of vampire. More than a predator, Barnabas was a tragic figure, forever haunted by the memory of Josette Du Pres, the 18th-century woman he once loved and inadvertently doomed. His longing for […]
While the name John Karlen may not register with today’s television viewers, there are a couple of generations of them that will surely remember him for two very distinct roles: Willie Loomis on the Classic TV daytime soap opera Dark Shadows (the show’s answer to Bram Stoker‘s Renfeld in Dracula) and Harvey Lacey, the epitome of the […]
There’s one inescapable conclusion: vampires — those bloodsuckers that go bite in the night, whether in movies or on TV — aren’t going anywhere, which is perfectly fine with us. To celebrate, we’re presenting mini-interviews with the stars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Moonlight, Angel, Midnight Texas, Dark Shadows and more. David Boreanaz as Angel […]
Vampires have been used to explore everything from romance to monstrosity, but CBS’ upcoming TV vampire comedy pilot Eternally Yours is taking a slightly different bite out of the genre: what happens when immortality doesn’t save you from a long, exhausting marriage? Allegra Edwards has been cast as the female lead in the pilot, which […]
Before Mulder and Scully investigated the paranormal or Buffy stalked vampires through high school hallways, there was Carl Kolchak—a rumpled reporter in a straw hat with a knack for stumbling into nightmares. Played by Darren McGavin with a perfect blend of cynicism and tenacity, Kolchak was neither chosen nor trained to be a slayer. But […]
Coming September 9 from author Samantha Highfill is the oral history of The Vampire Diaries, I Was Feeling Epic. Here’s how Plume describes the book: “From Entertainment Weekly writer and debut author Samantha Highfill, a definitive and deliciously nostalgic look into the creation and legacy of hit show The Vampire Diaries, as told by its cast, crew, and […]
Fans of vampire romance fiction have long waited to see J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series make the leap from page to screen. Now, that time has come — and it’s Passionflix, the streaming service devoted to steamy, character-driven romance adaptations, that has stepped up to the challenge. The long-running saga of warrior vampires, dangerous […]
At just 15 years old, Ryan Kiera Armstrong has been cast as the lead in Hulu’s upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot, stepping into the role of the new Slayer alongside returning star Sarah Michelle Gellar. Gellar, who will reprise her iconic role as Buffy Summers in a recurring capacity, shared the casting news in […]
There’s a Slayer stirring again—and this time, it’s not just rumors. After years of stops and starts, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot is inching closer to reality, with an impressive creative team behind it and a fresh generation of writers ready to take the Hellmouth by storm. While no casting announcements have been made […]
What if the brooding vampire villain from your favorite book series walked into your life—literally? That’s the tantalizing premise of Fang Fiction, the latest novel by Kate Stayman-London, which is now being adapted into a television series with the creative force of Diablo Cody (Jennifer’s Body) at the helm Fang Fiction introduces us to Tess […]
Losing cast members from Dark Shadows is, unfortunately, something that oldtime fans of the show have gotten used to, yet it’s always a sad moment and that’s particularly true with the loss of Lara Parker, who made such an impact in her role as Angelique Bouchard. I had the opportunity to interview Lara a number of times […]
Well this one caught us by surprise, we’re not happy to admit: a vampire series that made its debut in 2018 and we’re only just hearing about it now? You couldn’t be more disappointed in us than we are, so no guilt trips! The overall series description is described as follows: “In an America quarantined […]
AMC has released a first scene from season 2 of Interview with the Vampire. Here’s how they officially describe the series: “A luxury apartment covering an entire single floor of a high rise. Where the Vampire has granted the interview with the man he once judged to be unworthy. And where the journalist Daniel Molloy […]
Audible announced the first ever audio original set in the ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ universe. Slayers: A Buffyverse Story is set to premiere October 12, 2023, twenty years after the series finale of ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’ The audio original was written by original cast member Amber Benson alongside writer Christopher Golden, and directed by Benson, Golden, […]
Let the Right One In is a vampire television series that has had a long journey making its way to television. It started as a 2004 Swedish novel written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, was adapted four years later into a Swedish film directed by Tomas Alfredson with Lindqvist supplying the screenplay; in 2010 made into […]
Emma Caulfield Ford, who played the demon Anya on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has goner public with the fact that she’s struggling with multiple sclerosis. Emma, 49, has told Vanity Fair that the reason she is sharing her diagnosis has completely to do with her six-year-old daughter, Knightley Lake, who she had with husband Mark […]
On October 2nd, AMC will release an eight-episode adaptation of Interview with the Vampire based on Anne Rice’s celebrated gothic novel of the same name. For vampire fans, this is genuinely thrilling news: Interview with the Vampire is the first in a series collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles. The universe is vast and extraordinarily […]
If you were Jerry Lewis in 1956, he odds are pretty strong you’d still be trying to wrap your head around the fact that your 10-year partnership with Dean Martin had come to an end. But to deal with whatever he was feeling, he forced himself back into work and his first film as a […]
A matchmaking agency for vampires, werewolves and other fantastic creatures as well as humans? That’s the premise behind Dead End Dating, an eight book series by best selling author Kimberly Raye which is currently being adapted into a television series designated for one of the streaming services by the Big Screen Entertainment Group. Enthuses the […]
AMC (and its streaming service, AMC+) continue throwing caution to the wind as they more closely embrace the vampire genre, beginning with its series take on Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire with other components of The Vampire Chronicles in development. Now get set for an eight-episode limited series titled Firebite, which is currently shooting […]
It what is going to be the first in a series of videos, YouTube user Harry Potter Folklore has launched the umbrella series, “Vampires Explained.” Here is the description they offer: “Despite there being many different vampire franchises, they all have at least one thing in common, they drink blood, but honestly thats about it. […]
We’re repeating our refrain about vampires, but we continue to be impressed with how many permutations the genre can successfully handle. Another example comes in the form of the announced South Korean drama Bite Sisters, starring actress Kang Han-na (most recently seen in the series My Roommate is a Gumiho). In the new show, she […]
The original Crypt TV series The Girl in the Woods begins streaming on Peacock on Thursday October 21, and genre fans are hoping that it will be this generation’s answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It’s described as a supernatural YA drama about a mysterious door in the woods that leads to a terrifying monster […]
While speaking to the Den of Geek site, director Alan Taylor had a couple of comments to make about AMC’s upcoming adaptation of Interview with the Vampire, which is to star Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis. It was his love for Anne Rice’s original book that drew him to the show, […]
SHOWTIME has given a series order to the vampire drama Let the Right One In. Led by Oscar nominee Demián Bichir (A Better Life), the series also stars Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, Power), Grace Gummer (Mr. Robot), Madison Taylor Baez (Selena: The Series), Kevin Carroll (Snowfall), Ian Foreman (Merry Wish-Mas) and Jacob Buster (Colony). Award-winning playwright, writer and producer Andrew […]
In the new episode of the Vampires & Slayers podcast, writer Mark B. Perry provides an exclusive preview of the currently-in-development television series Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, which, rather than being a remake or reboot, is actually a continuation of the original 1966 to 1971 daytime Gothic horror soap opera, all of which he considers canon. […]
Described as a story about “Romance, friendship, death, sex and scandal,” Vampire Academy is based on a series of young adult paranormal romance novels by international bestselling author Richelle Mead. In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter […]
Black as Night is one of the four films making up Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studio’s Welcome to the Blumhouse. “A resourceful teenage girl,” offers the synopsis, “leaves childhood behind when she battles a group of deadly vampires in Black as Night, an action-horror hybrid with a strong social conscience and a biting sense of humor. […]
Thanks to an interview with bloody-disgusting.com, writer Mark B. Perry has confirmed that his sequel series to the original Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows: Reincarnation, is still being retooled and shopped around after ultimately not making the cut at the CW, more for scheduling reasons than anything else. He describes the premise this way: “We are […]
The Vampires & Slayers podcast kicks off with a special look at Dark Shadows, the 1966 to 1971 Gothic horror daytime soap opera. It starts with an exclusive interview with Mary O’Leary, director and producer of the documentary Dark Shadows and Beyond: The Jonathan Frid Story, focusing on the Canadian actor whose role as vampire […]
Although there’s been a reboot or continuation of Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the works for the past several years, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of movement. However, that’s not the case when it comes to the world of fiction, Disney Hyperion announcing a new YA trilogy to be […]
Johnny B. Truant’s Fat Vampire book series is being adapted for Syfy by Harley Peyton as a 10-episode series, tentatively titled Reginald the Vampire. It’s going to star Jacob Batalon, best known for playing Ned Leeds in Tom Holland’s Spider-Man films Homecoming, Far from Home and this December’s No Way Home. The show is described […]
Part of the anthology book Vampires Never Get Old was the V.E. Schwab short story “First Kill,” which is being adapted into a Netflix series. Sarah Catherine Hook plays Juliette Fairmont, a teenage vampire who must achieve her first kill so that she can truly become a part of her family of vampires. Problem is […]