My Babysitter's a Vampire

Here's the set-up. Ethan finds out his babysitter Sarah isn't quite what she seems, he starts having visions he can't explain, and his best mate Benny turns out to be a spellmaster. None of that was on the careers advice board at school.

This is the comfort end of the horror shelf, not the hide-behind-a-cushion end. It's vampires and spells played for laughs and friendship as much as fright, with Rory and Erica turning up to help out when things get properly supernatural. They're fellow vampires too, and they turn up just as Ethan and Benny are trying to get through an ordinary day at school.

It's one for a lighter night in, or for watching with someone who insists they don't like horror but will quite happily sit through this one. Two seasons, twenty-six episodes, so there's plenty of it once you start. It's made in Canada, created by Bruce McDonald, and it keeps going at a good pace once it gets started.

And it's nice to see Canadian telly getting its own vampire going, rather than importing someone else's.