Premiering on Friday, October 25 is the new drama Dracula created by Daniel Knauf (Carnivàle) and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jessica De Gouw, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Katie McGrath, Thomas Kretschmann and Nonso Anozie. Trevor Morris (The Borgias, Immortals, Olympus Has Fallen) is composing the show’s original score. Check out our previous news article to learn more about the series, which follows Dracula as he arrives in 1890s London posing as an American entrepreneur and hopes to wreak revenge on the people who ruined his life centuries earlier. Dracula will air every Friday night on NBC.
Also premiering on Friday night is the Hallmark Hall of Fame original movie The Hunters directed by Nisha Ganatra, based on a comic book by Joshua Williamson and starring Robbie Amell, Keenan Tracey, Dan Payne, Alexa Vega, Michelle Forbes and Victor Garber. The movie follows two brothers who find out that their parents are hunters who protect powerful fairy tale artifacts that are located in museums and other protected spots around the globe. Brent Belke has composed the film’s original score. The Hunters will premiere on Friday on the Hallmark Channel. To learn more about the movie, visit Hallmark Channel’s official website.
Making its U.S. premiere on Friday is the Sky series Strike Back: Origins Richard Armitage, Andrew Lincoln, Amanda Mealing, Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, Jodhi May, Colin Salmon and Shelley Conn. The show, which is a prequel to Cinemax’s Strike Back follows a UK Special Forces soldier who discovers a connection between a current hostage situation and a mission he ran in Iraq in 2003. Ilan Eshkeri (Stardust, The Young Victoria) and Scott Shields have composed the show’s score. Strike Back: Origins will air every Friday night on Cinemax. Visit the official show website to learn more about the series.
