Luke Roberts

were like, I wonder did the other actors ever do anything? You know, get other work and stuff.

And Dracula, the character who's playing Dracula, I am astounded by this fact that his name is Luke Roberts.

Do you know who Luke Roberts is?

I can't recognise the name.

I feel like

His character appeared mostly in voiceovers before it was revealed in the season finale that Charlie was missing and presumed dead.

Once Reardon underwent treatment and his doctors cleared him to return to work, he learned producers had chosen to replace him for season eight after Luke Roberts joined the cast as Detective Mark Hudson, a new character who shares Charlie's surname but has no relation to him.

It was not the outcome Reardon hoped, he later told fans in a Facebook post that ignited a controversy.

Productions company Schaff's Brewery Shaftesbury said at the time that the two parties could not find a workable pathway forward for his return, which led to Reardon's replacement.