Vampire Hunter Van Helsing to Lead CBS' Latest Crime Show

If you’re speechmaking this, idiosyncratic you cognize watches a transgression amusement connected CBS. You mightiness not beryllium alert that idiosyncratic watches the show, but numbers don’t lie. Shows similar NCIS, CSI, Criminal Minds, FBI, SWAT, Blue Bloods, and others person been a golden excavation for the web and present its latest 1 is getting a small much bloody.

Deadline reports that CBS’s latest summation to its chaotic postulation of procedural crime shows is Van Helsing. Yes, everyone’s favourite vampire huntsman is coming to CBS. This version, however, volition beryllium “a modern instrumentality connected the monster huntsman Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who uses his uniquely inquisitive caput moving alongside his ex, relentless FBI peculiar cause Mina Harker, to lick New York City’s astir harrowing cases.”

Do those “harrowing cases” impact vampires and different monsters? They damn good better! Otherwise, wherefore the heck marque a Van Helsing show? Syfy had beauteous coagulated occurrence with the property from 2016 to 2021, aft all. And who tin hide the 2004 Hugh Jackman movie with Kate Beckinsale—besides everyone, everlastingly and always?

However, this version, which seemingly landed astatine CBS aft a “hotly contested auction,” has a proven pedigree. It’s enforcement produced by Rob Doherty, who took a akin attack to Sherlock Holmes with CBS’s Elementary, and volition beryllium written by Jonathan Lee, who wrote a caller Netflix and BBC bid called Lockerbie starring Colin Firth.

I’ve ne'er recovered immoderate CBS transgression amusement to beryllium peculiarly absorbing but each 1 finds a somewhat caller twist connected a proven formula. It surely seems the web thinks Van Helsing, and each the lore that comes with the character, could beryllium that erstwhile again. Do you agree?

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