NBC's New TV Series- Dracula

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

NBC Universal and Sky Living have announced they’ll be co-producing a 10-episode drama series of Dracula.  The Tudors' star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been tapped to play the famous vampire in what the network’s president Robert Greenblatt dubbed a "new version of the classic Bram Stoker" tale.
The program doesn’t intend to create another modernization of a classic tale, instead it takes place in the 1890s and finds Dracula living a double life in London as an American businessman interested in bringing modern science to Victorian society. His true plan to exact revenge on those who burdened him centuries ago, however, is derailed when he falls in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.



Supernatural dramas have been all the rage for a while, and this new series will be fighting for the attention of vampire lovers with established shows like True Blood and The Vampire Diaries. Does the allure of Count Dracula still have power in the age of Eric Northman? The classic character has been portrayed many times in film and television and in many different ways. How Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays him will certainly be a big part of the show’s success – or failure. My guess is that we can expect to see a Dracula who is sexier than any we’ve encountered before, who may not be in the modern world but will still be designed to appeal to the modern idea of vampires.

The Dracula order comes as NBC is readying another supernatural-type drama in its reboot of The Munsters. From Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller, NBC previewed the pilot for Mockingbird Lane this month at Comic-Con. A decision on the effort, which has received an order for additional scripts, is expected to come in the next month or so. Eddie Izzard portrays Grandpa Munster, a Dracula-like figure, in Mockingbird Lane.