Wednesday 13th February
Ashes to Ashes star Philip Glenister has signed to appear in a modern reworking of the Dracula story set in modern day London for ITV1.
But, don't worry - he won't be developing over-sized incisors and chasing virgins around Whitechapel; Glenister is set to play one of the last members of the vampire-slaying dynasty, the Van Helsings.
Glenister will play an American, Rupert Galvin, who has a 'zero-tolerance policy towards half-lives', or vampires to you and me, in the as yet untitled six-part series.
Galvin bursts into the life of his teenage godson, Luke (played by Christian Cooke, of Echo Beach), whose father died in mysterious circumstances 15 years before.
Little does Luke know what will be thrust upon him. There are evil supernatural forces at work and it is Luke's destiny, as the last descendent of the Van Helsing line, to destroy the half-lives that walk our streets.
The series will star The Office's Mackenzie Crook as the villainous vampire Gladiolus Thrip.
No word yet on when it will screen.
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