Since Spoiler TV started this poll about everyone favorite vampire shows I thought that blog about the various television shows and the vampire genre would be welcomed.
Here is the link to Spoiler TV's Poll
USD Pull Favorite Three Vampire Shows
First let me start out by saying in the entertainment media today we have all kinds of books, novels movies, television shows about vampires, and now it seems the advertisers of some tv commercials are even getting in on the vampire craze
But what I would like to talk about is the various tv shows of the vampire genre maybe even give a little history about some of the various shows listed in their poll.
There have been lots of Sci-Fi- Paranormal themed television shows over the years such as Supernatural, Grimm, Charmed, American Gothic, Wolf Lake, The Walkilng Dead, Highlander, The Gates, etc Some of them only lasting one season and there have been others that have gone on to have at least 8 seasons. But it is the vampire genre shows that many people seem to love the most.
But right now it's the vampire genre has never been hotter. As I said earlier there are dozens and dozens of novels, movies out there but it's just been in the last thirty to thirty-five years alone there
has also many television shows at least a dozen if not more all together that are vampire themed genre shows. Starting in the sixties with the gothic vampire-themed soap called Dark
Shadows starring Jonathon Frid as Barnabas Collins, which today still has a huge fanbase.
Then in 1979 NBC
gave sci-fi fans a show entitled Cliffhangers and inside that show was a 20
minute serial called The Curse of Dracula starring Micheal Nouri as
Dracula it was this short lived series that really sparked my interest
in the genre as a child.
Then in the late 80's early 90's CBS first tried
their hand with vampires starting with a movie from Jim Parriot called Nick Knight starring Rick Springfield which
later was developed into a tv series called Forever Knight starring Geriant Wyn Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, Deborah Duchene, John Kapelos, Gary Farmer, Lisa Ryder, Ben Bass, Kristen Lehman. Forever Knight last only one
season on CBS as part of their late night line up called Crime Time
after Prime Time. CBS cancelled it after one season but it was brought
back for a second season in syndication because of the fan campaign to
save it. Then it was brought back for a third season because once again the fans
campaigned to save it which the did it was given a new home on the cable network USA which is
now owned by NBC-Universal and it also remained in syndication. Sadly it never got a a fourth season but
that show garnered a huge loyal fanbase that is still around today. Forever Knight
was the first to have a email discussion list about the show which is still in
operation today, and it also was given three books based on the series and
it's characters, as well as two soundtracks which contains the music that was used from all three seasons from the various episodes including the music that was used in the vampire bar on the show called The Raven. The fans even continued to campaign to Sony so that the series would be put on on DVD which it was.
I've watched just about every
vampire show there is and I've loved them all, but out of them all
Moonlight starring Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles and Jason Dohring is my all time favorite because like Forever Knight it was solely about vampires. Now Moonlight was CBS' second attempt at television show with vampires. Moonlight
only lasted one season on CBS 2007/2008 because the of the writers strike that season it was only given 16 episodes but even five years later it still remains a favorite
among fans. Co-Creators & Co-Excutive Producers Trevor Munson & Ron Koslow gave us a modern day twist to
the vampire myth as well the unique love story between a vampire & a
human (Mick St. John & Beth Turner)
Moonlight was based on
Co-Creator & Co-Executive Producer Trevor Munson's Novel Angel Of
Vengeance about a vampire named Mick Angel.
Like Forever Knight
Moonlight garnered a loyal fanbase that fought for a second season with
letters and email and charity blood drives but a second season was not
given and many fans from the show still hold out hope for more someday.
I also enjoy The CW's The Vampire Diaries starring Nina Dobrev,
Ian Somehalder, Paul Wesley which is based on the series of books of the same name.
The Vampire Diaries are going into it's fifth season with a spin off debuting this fall on the CW
called The Originals starring Joseph Morgan as Klaus.
I also enjoy HBO's True Blood starring Stephen Moyer & his wife Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgard which is currently in it's sixth season and has already been renewed for a seventh season.
I have to say I'm looking forward to the two newest vampire shows coming this fall to both the CW & NBC networks The Originals on The CW.
Then there is NBC's Dracula also coming this fall now this particular version has got me curious since it supposedly takes place in the 19th century. Dracula stars
Jonathan Rhys Meyers.
Other past vampire shows that I have enjoyed includes
Joss Whedon's Buffy The Vampire Slayer & it's
spinoff, Angel The Series which starred Sarah Michelle Geller and David Boreanaz.
Fox's Kindred The Embraced, starring Marc Frankel & C. Thomas Howell. Kindred The Embraced was based on the White-Wolf Role Playing Game Vampire: The Masquarade.
Lifetime's Blood Ties starring Kyle Schmid as Henry Fitzroy and Christina Cox as Vicki Nelson. Blood Ties was based on Tonya Huff's Blood Lies Books.
BBC's hit Being Human and of course SyFy's verison of Being Human.
The is another gothic vampire soap that is
also worth mentioning I'm not talking about the gothic soap Dark Shadows and it's remake which I mentioned at the beginning of this blog but, I'm talking about ABC's gothic soap Port Charles which was a spin off of the ABC Iconic Soap General Hospital.
There is also one more worth mentioning and that is ABC's The Gates which also only lasted one season.
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