There's a new TV series on CBS called Moonlight, about a vampire who goes around solving crimes. Apparently he doesn't suck people's blood either, most of the time. It seems as though the main focus here is on the immortality, not the feeding habits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/television/28moon.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin

A vampire detective sounds quite interesting, though. We're mostly used to vampires being the bad guys (except in Terry Pratchett books, of course, but he's always been a little different).

well i watch TV series on CBS called 'Moonlight', personally i don't like that program.

I like the idea of vampires being bad. The good vampires aren't as interesting. Sorry, but this TV series doesn't meet my tastes.

Hi. Thanks for the tip-off. I think it'll take a long time for it to be broadcast in Britain, if it ever is.
There's a lot of vampire-as-detective stuff in 'chick lit' if you like that kind of thing. (Which I do, though I'm a bloke.)
The Soukie Stackhouse stories have Bill Compton the main vampire as a kind of detective/lawman and they're being filmed for television now, supposedly.
Then there's the Lee Killough books which again feature an American Vampire police detective.
Also, the killer-vampire turned detective Simon Ysidro in the Barabara Hambly stories, which are fab. What's good about these tales is that the vampire has to overcome his murderous nature in order to work with humans on quests to protect vampirekind. The first one is, secretly, an Edwardian period version of the cop-show buddy-buddy story as vampire and spy learn to co-operate despite the gulf between them. In the second, Ysidro has to transform himself into the perfect gentle knight in order to work with the strong-willed lady doctor. Great reads, both, and a must for filming, I'd have thought.
A commentator to your post says that vampires ought to be bad, and having seen 30 Days of Night recently, I can see Razor's point. However, I have a soft spot for the tormented ( or otherwise) 'tec with a heart of gold [or whatever vampire hearts are made of] and after a decade of Angel and the later Spike, I don't see the sub-genre dying out soon. My own online vampire alter-ego does similar stuff, so I'm dead biased about this kind of thing. Blade is, if anything, a dhampir, but I love to see him on the case. Flames and crumbling skeletons will surely follow.
Tanya Huff's Canadian PI stories are on the TV in the states - have you seen them?
Nope, the good-guy vampire detective is here to stay - if only because, in vampire world as in this one, it just makes good sense in law enforecement to set a thief to catch a thief.
I'm gratefulyou pointed this show out, though, as it'll probably take years to reach England. Thank goodness for DVD!

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I love Moonlight! I actually think it's pretty fantastic. The cinematography is beautiful. The writing didn't start out so great, but it gets better in every episode. And as far as Vamps being antagonists, they are ALWAYS the antagonists, so I can appreciate a good guy with fangs. I guess its all in how you look at it. No matter how I look at it though...Mick St.John is SEXY!

I wasn't interested in TV since Buffy ended and Angel became a really bad TV Show, until Moonlight... the character of Mick (and also Alex... the actor) is great!!! (and sexy of course) and I like that the character of Beth is done by Sophia Miles, the same girl who did Erika on Underworld. I do not care if the vampires in hollywood are good or bad, evil or holly, I just love to watch them, and see how hollywood makes of a simple thing (that's being a vampire) something super-huge... and supernatural!


I love it.