From Sherlock Holmes to Dracula

It turns out that after leaving Doctor Who , Steven Moffat is going to be working on an adaption of Dracula. He will be writing this series with Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue's Hartswood Films will be producing it. The show share the same mini-series structure as Sherlock.

The fact that this is another adaption of an old British fictional character makes the show feel a little familiar, especially if it shares the same episodic structure. It will be interesting to see who gets cast as Dracula. Will they go for a traditional actor or someone new and unexpected? If Dracula is a surname then they could easily cast a woman. The sexuality of vampires is something Moffat will do well and I can't imagine Steven Moffat creating anything like Twilight so that is just as well. Hopefully it will be better than that turgid 2006 adaption which starred Mark Warren. Time will tell if this is as popular as Sherlock or whether it will dissapear into obscurity like Jekyll.