Fairytale is the New Vampire - Previews for NBC's Grimm & ABC's Once Upon A Time.

Not one, but two new TV Series set to debut this fall will reveal to our world that Fairytale characters, creatures,and monsters do exist. This is not due to a pixie produced conspiracy as one might imagine - just an attempt to duplicate the movie success of Alice in Wonderland on the small screen.

NBC has GRIMM - A cop discovers he's from a long line of special hunters - dating back to The Brothers Grimm - that can "see" fairytale creatures living amongst us disguised as humans. Resistant at first he soon realizes he has an edge in solving the crimes these real monsters commit.

ABC has ONCE UPON A TIME - By way of a curse, Classic Fairytale Characters are trapped in our world without memory of who they really are. They all live in a quaint yet eerie little town and still continue to play out their storybook fates as ordinary modern mortals until the spell can be broken.

There's a lot of potential and plenty of fantasy genre experience behind both series - with production veterans from Buffy/Angel involved in Grimm and writers from Lost/Tron creating Once Upon a Time. Personally, OUAT looks a bit more creative to me and obviously has the benefit of receiving Disney level high production values. Grimm seems a little to close to Supernatural's territory - and ironically too grim, with the few bits of humor feeling kind of stale. But I'll certainly check both out in the fall.