Everything is delightfully stilted and awkward so as to very clearly telegraph to the audience that somethin’ ain’t right. Could have" been good if the editing was infuriating, and there was more than three people capable of actually acting in this 11 character piece. They cook nice dinners for the youths, keeping them company while they themselves enjoy a liquid diet. They cannot bring crosses, holy water, rosaries or stakes and it is only to be a three-person crew, rather than the normal seven-person team.

Nevertheless, this tiny news team explains the fiction’s “rules” for the audience’s benefit all the same.

Maybe we’ll get another surprise visit from a Woodcock, or perhaps a Sparrowhawk will swoop onto the lawn and send the House Sparrows into a chattering frenzy. The hook this time is that the immortals are just like us — afflicted by a virus that makes them drink (volunteer-supplied) blood, but otherwise eager to get along.

Hoping to dispel some ugly myths, a vampire household has invited the three broadcasters to stay with them for a few days, doing interviews and seeing how they live. A converse problem also exists: dissimilar organisms subjected to similar environmental challenges will often gradually converge in their properties, which will become optimized for thriving under existing conditions. Scientists have yet to reach a consensus on a strict definition of life, but most would agree that two of its hallmarks are an ability to metabolize (to draw nutrients from the environment, convert those nutrients into energy and excrete waste products) and an ability to reproduce.

After a blood borne illness is revealed to be caused by real-life vampires, a documentary crew scouts out a nearby family of bloodsuckers to see if these creatures of the night can really coexist with humans.