The Reluctant Vampire Stars Reveal 'Haunted' Filming Location – and Its Button House Connection

The Reluctant Vampire stars reveal 'haunted' filming location – and its Button House connection

The Reluctant Vampire is bringing some all-ages fun to the Halloween season, adapting Eric Morecambe's beloved books to live-action for the first time.The BAFTA-winning star of Am I Being Unreasonable? takes on the role of Val, the youngest member of a vampire family, whose taste for blood is yet to develop.He soon discovers that, unlike his sinister brother Vernon (Gabriel Nagy), he is actually a human – but must tread carefully to avoid this s…

The Reluctant Vampire features This Country's Charlie Cooper

The Reluctant Vampire was partly filmed in a Gloucestershire Gothic mansion.

Review: Lenny Rush, Tom Davis, Sian Clifford In The Reluctant

I'd been looking forward to The Reluctant Vampire for ages and sat down on Sunday night to watch it only to realise I'd missed it. I had assumed it would have an 8pmish slot but it actually went out at 6.40pm, a real Sunday evening family slot. And sure enough The Reluctant Vampire, based on Eric Morecambe's novel and adapted by the Gibbons brothers who write Alan Partridge, is something of a Horrible Histories/Simpsons-style two-tier comedy, wi…

Charlie Cooper stars in new BBC comedy filmed at Woodchester Park Mansion

Stroud actor Charlie Cooper stars in The Reluctant Vampire, a brand-new BBC comedy series which was partly filmed at the historic Woodchester Park Mansion.