BBC America announced today that they'll be airing their new TV series "Demons" Saturday, January 2, 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. While there's no footage yet, here's the plot crunch: "The battle against the dark underworld of half-lives, monsters and in-humans lie deep beneath the streets of modern-day London in the U.S. premiere of Demons. This contemporary spin on the character of Van Helsing features Luke Rutherford (Christian Cooke) as an average teenager, but with the arrival of his dead father’s best friend Rupert Galvin (Philip Glenister, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes), Luke’s life is about to be flipped upside down. Galvin is a straight-talking, headstrong American who has come to tell Luke his secret destiny - he’s the real-life great-great grandson of Abraham Van Helsing, the vampire hunter in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Luke’s destined to inherit the family mantle as a warrior in the coldest of cold wars against the supernatural entities behind every myth and legend from vampires to werewolves and all things that go bump in the night."
Personally I'm getting wary of the whole "average teenage boy who discovers his secret destiny and a whole new world of magic, monsters, and adventure is opened up for him," cliche. Can we thank Harry Potter for this or were there even some before him???
This show totally bombed in the UK. I'm not sure why they had Philip Glenister have an (unconvincing) American accent, but then I suppose the producers were aiming to sell this show to the USA...lo and behold.
Sometimes I wonder if these people ever read the book. Van Helsing was a fucking doctor, not some hunter of the supernatural. He knew his shit, yes, but he wasn't some warrior like a lot of shows and movies make him out to be. He was a crazy-ass doctor.
I've seen it, it's no where near the caliber of say Hyde or Torchwood. Don't bother.
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