Welcome to another of our top ten post and in this entry we’re taking a look of some of our favorite tv shows concerning vampires.
[1] Van Helsing
Van Helsing is set in a post-apocalyptic near future. Vanessa Van Helsing, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, awakens from a coma after her supposed death to find herself in a post-apocalyptic world, three years after an eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera had blanketed the world in ash, blocking out sunlight and allowing vampires to overrun humanity.
Cast: Kelly Overton, Jonathan Scarfe, Christopher Heyerdahl, Vincent Gale, Rukiya Bernard
Network: Syfy
[2] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The series narrative follows Buffy Summers (played by Sarah Michelle Gellar), the latest in a line of young women known as “Vampire Slayers”, or simply “Slayers”. In the story, Slayers, or the “Chosen Ones”, are chosen by fate to battle against vampires, demons and other forces of darkness.
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Stewart Head
Network: The WB, UPN
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The series follows Annie Sawyer (a ghost), George Sands (a werewolf), and John Mitchell (a vampire) – all of whom are sharing accommodation and attempting as well as they can to live a “normal” life and blend in with the ordinary humans around them, striving to fit in more.
Cast: Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey, Aidan Turner, Sinead Keenan, Michael Socha, Damien Molony
Network: BBC Three / BBC HD
[4] True Blood
The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress living in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie’s world is turned upside down when she falls in love with 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer), and for the first time, she must navigate the trials and terrors of intimacy and relationships.
Cast: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Alexander Skarsgard
Network: HBO
[5] From Dusk till Dawn: The Series
A Texas Ranger is in hot pursuit of the infamous Gecko brothers and their hostages. They all end up trapped in a desert bar secretly run by vampires and discover a vampire conspiracy.
Cast: D. J. Cotrona, Zane Holtz, Eiza Gonzalez, Madison Davenport, Brandon Soo Hoo, Robert Patrick
Network: El Rey
[6] Penny Dreadful
The series follows a gunman, an explorer, a scientist, and a woman with mysterious powers as they fight supernatural forces that threaten the world.
Cast: Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, Danny Sapani, Harry Treadaway
Network: Showtime, Sky Atlantic
[7] What We Do in the Shadows
The series follows three traditional vampires, Nandor, Laszlo, and Nadja; Colin Robinson, an energy vampire; and Guillermo, Nandor’s familiar. The series revolves around the centuries-old vampires interacting with the modern world and other supernatural beings.
Cast: Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Harvey Guillen, Mark Proksch
Network: FX
[8] Trinity Blood
Set 900 years after an apocalyptic war between humans and vampires, the series focuses on the ongoing cold war between the Vatican, the human government, and the “New Human Empire”, the government of the vampiric Methuselah.
Network: Wowow
[9] Salem’s Lot
The plot concerns a writer who returns to his hometown and discovers that its citizens are turning into vampires.
Cast: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres
Network: CBS
[10] The Strain
The show centers around Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the CDC’s New York-based Canary Project, who is called upon to investigate an airplane landing wherein everyone aboard is dead. What his team discovers is a viral outbreak that has similarities to an ancient strain of vampirism. The virus begins to spread and Goodweather works with his team and a group of the city’s residents to wage a war to save humanity.
Cast: Corey Stoll, David Bradley, Mia Maestro, Kevin Durand, Jonathan Hyde, Richard Sammel
Network: FX
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