Vampire Hunter Van Helsing to Lead CBS’ Newest Crime Present

Should you’re studying this, somebody you realize watches against the law present on CBS. You won’t remember that particular person watches the present, however numbers don’t lie. Reveals like NCIS, CSI, Legal Minds, FBI, SWAT, Blue Bloods, and others have been a gold mine for the community and now its newest one is getting a little more bloody.

Deadline reviews that CBS’s newest addition to its wild assortment of procedural crime shows is Van Helsing. Sure, everybody’s favourite vampire hunter is coming to CBS. This model, nevertheless, shall be “a up to date tackle the monster hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who makes use of his uniquely inquisitive thoughts working alongside his ex, relentless FBI particular agent Mina Harker, to resolve New York Metropolis’s most harrowing circumstances.”

Do these “harrowing circumstances” contain vampires and different monsters? They rattling nicely higher! In any other case, why the heck make a Van Helsing present? Syfy had pretty solid success with the property from 2016 to 2021, in any case. And who can overlook the 2004 Hugh Jackman film with Kate Beckinsale—apart from everybody, without end and all the time?

Nonetheless, this model, which apparently landed at CBS after a “hotly contested public sale,” has a confirmed pedigree. It’s government produced by Rob Doherty, who took an analogous strategy to Sherlock Holmes with CBS’s Elementary, and shall be written by Jonathan Lee, who wrote a brand new Netflix and BBC collection referred to as Lockerbie starring Colin Firth.

I’ve by no means discovered any CBS crime present to be significantly attention-grabbing however every one finds a barely new twist on a confirmed components. It definitely appears the community thinks Van Helsing, and all of the lore that comes with the character, may very well be that when once more. Do you agree?

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