The Van Helsing lineage lives on
If you’re looking for news about Lamberto Bava’s Demons films making the transition to the small screen, forget it. However, if you’re a fan of British television shows, look no further.
BBC America announced today that the series Demons will make it’s U.S. debut on January 2 at 10pm.
Synopsis: 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), 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.
Ah, so you have a mix of the classics and the always-reliable hero’s journey. The BBC began airing the series across the pond at the beginning of the year.
Source: BBC America
