This revamped Dracula has bite

Dracula is about to see the light. The camera has been attracted to Jonathan Rhys Meyers ever since the brooding, steampunk version of Dracula bowed in October, but it’s a much better series now.

The best dramas always improve over time. Last week’s episode, The Devil’s Waltz, was edgy, dangerous and gorgeous to look at.

In Friday’s Of Monsters and Men, Grayson’s nemesis Lord Browning (Ben Miles) arranges for the mysterious entrepreneur to be exposed to direct sunlight, to prove Grayson is behind a recent spate of vampire attacks.

Unknown to Browning, Grayson and his scientifically minded partner-incrime Abraham Van Helsing (Thomas Kretschmann, wonderful in the role) have been conducting secret experiments on exposure to light and mirror reflections — anything that will allow the dashing Grayson to step into broad daylight and prove his detractors wrong. Someone is about to get a nasty surprise.

Dracula has pulled off a remarkable feat. It has taken a tired, oft-told tale of vampires and 19th-century London and turned it something stylish, fresh, unique and artistic. (10 p.m., Global, NBC)

If two sitcom stars paired off and had a child, would it be an alien from outer space? That’s the premise behind The Neighbors’ post-Thanksgiving episode, in which Family Ties mom Meredith Baxter and Family Matters’ dad Reginald VelJohnson reappear as Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s (Toks Olagundoye) parents. A pipe bursts in the Weavers’ house, and the Joyner-Kersee parents come to the rescue. (8:30 p.m., ABC/CTV)

Marketplace calls Canada’s insurance industry to account and learns that you don’t always get what you (think) you pay for when it comes to insurance premiums. (8 p.m. CBC)

There’s something compelling about survival-on-the-mountain tales, especially when they’re well told. The Fifth Estate examines the fatal attraction of the world’s highest mountain in Into the Death Zone, about two young Canadian women who met on their way to the summit. Only one would make it off the mountain alive. (9 p.m., CBC)