The most iconic vampire television show is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is an American show that ran from 1997 to 2003, but has run out of control, spawning more spinoff than I can list. Everything Buffy has been deemed the “Buffyverse” by fans.
Buffy Summers is the protagonist of the show, she is a part of a long line of female “slayers,” who are born to slay vampires, demons and darkness generally. She has a guardian, or “watcher” Rupert Guiles, and throughout the show befriends many unlikely heroes, and even a vampire– Angel.
The second show, and my personal favorite, is True Blood–based off the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.
I chose this picture for purely selfish reasons.
This show is the most similar to the Vampire Chronicles, with its sexy and violent themes. Anne Rice herself loves this show:
The final show that I’ll mention is Being Human, a British drama. It centers around three supernatural creatures, a vampire, werewolf and a ghost.
These characters are trying to fit into a human community, and hide their true natures. Each of them has a problem that they deal with throughout the series. The vampire John Mitchell treats his need for blood like a drug addiction. George Sands, the werewolf, fears that he will either kill a human during his transformation, or bite them and afflict them with his curse. Finally the Ghost Annie Sawyer despairs her loneliness in a world where only these two can see her, and questions her continued ghostly existence.
Interview with the Vampire 