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Bram Stoker’s Buffy
18/09/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Philip Glenister of Life on Mars fame is coming back to the small screen in a new fantasy/horror drama series. It is meant to be a spin on Bram Stoker’s Dracula set in modern-day London, but it sounds more like Bram Stoker’s 'Buffy' to us. Glenister plays Rupert Galvin, an American with a tragic past and a zero tolerance policy towards the rabble of the undead and the unquiet. When he enters the life of his teenage godson, Luke (Christian Cooke of Robin Hood fame), whose father died in odd circumstances 15 years before, little does the poor kid know what horrors will be thrust upon him. There are supernatural forces of evil at work and it is Luke’s destiny, as the last descendent of the Van Helsing line, to smite the half-lives that stalk our streets.
Producer Johnny Capps told SFcrowsnest, “We’re excited for the opportunity to be working with Laura Mackie and her drama team and to be making a primetime series for ITV, our first here at Shine.”
While trying to juggle an ordinary life of school exams, parties and learning to drive – not to mention keeping it all from his mum - Luke is catapulted into a world of vampires, demons and zombies, along with his best friend Ruby (Holliday Grainger – The Bad Mother’s Handbook, Waterloo Road).
Helping Galvin to train Luke in his quest is the beautiful and icy cold Mina Harker (Zoe Tapper - Affinity, A Harlot's Progress), a blind concert pianist with a too-long history, who is also the foremost authority on the entities preying on humanity.
Before his chums have time to prepare Luke, he is faced with a terrible opponent in the form of the villainous Gladiolus Thrip (Mackenzie Crook -The Office, Pirates of the Caribbean) a vampire with a deep hatred for the Van Helsing line.
The as yet unnamed series is currently shooting in London in six-parts, and is being made by Shine for ITV.
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