Ever since watching "The Tudors" I have been wondering why someone has not cast that Rhys-Meyers chap as a vampire. He looks like a vampire. No, he looks like vampires probably would like to look like. It would be so easy. He wouldn't even need make-up. So, it was with some delight I sat down to watch the premiere of "Dracula" starring him as Dracula. It was a good beginning. I am, mostly, a purist and deeply despise the brooding tween vampires that we, for absurd reasons, seem to be inundated with, but Dracula is different. However, in the show, one gets the impression that good old Drac is not evil, not completely anyway. The show is definitely promising, except for one thing and that is Dracula's American accent. It is horrible. Halfway through the episode, I so desperately wanted Rex Harrison in his role as Henry Higgins to jump out, put Drac in a leg-lock and shout "Longer vowels, old chum, let me hear it...come on...the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain...no, not uncle, come, come, there's a good chap, let me hear those long, beautiful vowels". It is, I must clarify, not American accents in general I have a problem with, just the way it is spoken by mr. Meyers. He is not very good at it.