'Dracula' on NBC review

Dracula Friday, Oct. 25, 10 p.m., NBC A tip of the top hat to NBC for taking on a period drama -- a lavish and risky proposition even in the best of times. Loosely derived from Bram Stoker's novel, this "Dracula" stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers ("The Tudors") as a revivified Vlad the Impaler, brought back from ossified, subterranean exile by an unlikely ally to wage battle against an age-old Order of the Dragon that has ensconced itself in Victorian-era upper society.