Having a deja vu

I missed the premiere of Blood Ties Sunday night because I was watching the last three episodes of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ironic, that.

The new Lifetime show is about a young woman who solves supernatural crimes, teaming up and falling in love with a 450-year-old vampire. What a novel idea.

But maybe I shouldn't be so tough on them, seeing as the premise is from a series of books that Tanya Huff started writing in 1991. That would be a year before Buffy made her debut in a movie, and six years before she fell for a vampire in the TV series.

Nothing new under the sun ...