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I remember a classic (okay, even for television, I admit I am stretching beyond all reason in my use of the term "classic") episode of Just Shoot Me in which characters played by Laura San Giacomo and David Spade came up with and pitched the following idea to a movie producer: Vampire Cop! The producer quickly dispensed with them, "I've seen it, what else ya' got?" to the consternation of Spade and San Giacomo's , who basically had nothing at all, let alone something else.Fox is not making that mistake, because they have made scripting deals for two, count 'em, two vampire or vampire-ish tv shows, only one of which is a cop show.
That one is an as-yet unnamed concept from Allan Loeb and Christian Taylor involving a police officer who is "secretly" centuries old. Yeah, in our youth-obsessed ageist society you want to keep that kind of personal information to yourself.
The second concept seems a bit farther along, in that it has a name at least. Amy After Dark is about a New York attorney who discovers she is a vampire. Although in a Boston Legal era, a show about an attorney who isn't a hideous creature of the night might be more original. John Scott Shepherd and director Todd Holland are spearheading this one. Holland worked on Wonderfalls and Malcolm in the Middle previously.
Any show that results is far from making a schedule at this point, but either has the potential, because everybody loves a bloodsucker. Oh Joss, how we miss you.
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