NBC Challenges ‘True Blood’ for Vampire Porn Demographic

Tired of vampires thrusting their hips into human ladies all over your television screen? Too bad! NBC is now getting into the “vampire hump show” business with its own 10-episode supernatural period piece, called Dracula. Starring world-class humper Jonathan Rhys Meyers (you will remember his frequently unclothed body from The Tudors and Match Point) this series has been marketed as “Dangerous Liasions meets The Tudors,” and you know what that means: humping. And lots of it.

According to Deadline: “Dracula (Meyers) arrives in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who maintains that he wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. In reality, he hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier but falls hopelessly in love with a woman who seems to be a reincarnation of his dead wife.” So yeah, basically a version of Dracula. (io9.com)

This is the kind of stuff that annoys me.  One channel makes a show and it has great success and then the other channels try and copy it!!  But True Blood is wrapping up it’s 5th season, don’t you think NBC is a little late to the party??  And how much ‘vampire porn’ can NBC really have beings as they have to try and remain ‘family friendly’.  Dracula doesn’t interest me in the least….sounds like a desperate plea to rake in some dough over the vampire craze!

~Commentary by OBS reviewer Heidi