There’s a Twilight reboot in the works, dark, bawdy and brilliant… only this time, it’s drenched in mango lassi and served with a side of frantic Asian mum. Count Abdulla, ITVX’s latest horror-filled comedy series, is gory, punchy – but difficult to really sink your teeth into.
When he’s bitten by a halal-hunting vampire while waiting for the bus, British-Pakistani Muslim doctor Abdulla Khan transforms into one of their kind. Only, deadlocked, as it were, between a conservative Muslim mother and his wayward friends, he is barely able to get the best of both worlds.
