{"id":791506,"date":"2026-10-04T08:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791506\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:28:22","slug":"slow-horses-newcomer-stars-in-exclusive-first-look-for-the-reluctant-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791506\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200bSlow Horses newcomer stars in exclusive first look for The Reluctant Vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"

BBC comedy series The Reluctant Vampire will be swooping in this weekend \u2013 and Radio Times<\/a> has an exclusive first look at the series.<\/p>\n

The show, which is an adaptation of the book series of the same name by comedy legend Eric Morecambe and features BAFTA winner Lenny Rush<\/a> as its lead, is coming to BBC One and iPlayer on Sunday (4 October).<\/p>\n

It follows Rush\u2019s character Val, the youngest member of a vampire family who starts living a double life after finding out that he is, in fact, not actually a vampire. <\/p>\n

In the clip (which you can watch above), there\u2019s a comical misunderstanding between Val, his friend Gertie (played by Ellie-May Sheridan) and villager John (played by Charlie Cooper).<\/p>\n

The cast also includes Sian Clifford and Tom Davis, who play Val’s vampire parents, Ross Noble and Bill Bailey as gargoyles, and Joe Wilkinson as Wilf the Werewolf.<\/p>\n

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Lenny Rush as Val and Tom Davis as Victor in The Reluctant Vampire.\u00a0BBC<\/p>\n

Rush rose to stardom after appearing in the Daisy May Cooper comedy drama series Am I Being Unreasonable?,<\/a> which went on to win him a BAFTA for best male comedy performance.<\/p>\n

More recently, Rush has appeared in Doctor Who, A Woman of Substance and the current season of Slow Horses<\/a>, and will also star as Dobby in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series from HBO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Reluctant Vampire will air at 6:40pm on Sunday 4 October on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

Add The Reluctant Vampire to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app<\/a> \u2013 download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.<\/p>\n

Check out more of our Comedy<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC comedy series The Reluctant Vampire will be swooping in this weekend \u2013 and Radio Times has an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}