Blood Ties (TV series)

Blood Ties is a television series made in Canada and based on the works of Tanya Huff. It premiered on March 11th on the Lifetime channel in the United States, and is set to begin in the August of 2007 on the CityTV in Canada.

It is about Vicki Nelson, an ex-cop turned private investigator because of a degenerative eye disease, who teams up with a vampire to fight supernatural crimes.

Cast

Opening credits:

• Christina Cox as Vicki Nelson
• Dylan Neal as Mike Celluci

and

• Kyle Schmid as Henry Fitzroy

Supporting cast:

• Gina Holden as Coreen Fennel

and

• Keith Dallas as Dave Graham
• Françoise Yip as Kate Lam
• Nimet Kanji as Dr. Rajani Mohadevan

Episodes

The original 22-episode order has been distributed on DVD as season 1 (12 episodes) and season 2 (10 episodes).

See List of Blood Ties episodes.

Trivia

Tanya Huff has filmed a cameo appearance, as handcuffed background hooker #1, in the episode "Stone Cold", which she wrote herself.

Changes for the TV Series

Vicki has assistant named Coreen Fennel, based on the character of Coreen Fergus (from Blood Price).

Henry Fitzroy is no longer a romance writer, but a comic book artist.

The character of Tony Foster has been written out, because Huff hopes to be able to sell the Smoke books (which star Tony, in a spin-off from the Blood books) independently. (Source: Tanya Huff)

External Links

• Official website
• IMDb listing for Blood Ties
• Blood Ties information on Tanya Huff's LiveJournal
• Lifetime's official Blood Ties page
• Lifetime's streaming video site, where you can watch the first 12 episodes!
• Space's Blood Ties microsite