Some news from across the pond to add to the lists of renewed shows of 2013 and cancelled shows of 2013, as BBC cancelled Being Human making this its final installment, marking the supernatural show´s end at season finale turned series finale. The adversary the show´s heroes will face is none other than the Devil, thus making it an interesting point for a finale. Continue reading
Syfy is treating us journalists with a couple of days of enjoyment and access to talent. Since I am far away from Toronto and could not attend, I sent some friends to act as correspondents for Seriesandtv: Danielle Barker, the star of Starvival, and Shannon Kook from DeGrassi among other stuff.
In the event, we are going to have access to Haven and Being Human cast and crew during dinner, while being able to visit the sets of Warehouse 13 and Defiance.
Luckily I am having the chance to have this humble site covering the event. And fortunately for us, folks at Syfy hooked us up with a storify app that will help us on our live coverage of the event. Continue reading
More information to fill the lists for cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012. In this case from across the pond, since the original version of Being Human, from the UK is coming back; and that is good news since BBC renews Being Human for the fifth season. Continue reading
More info about cancelled shows of 2012 and renewed shows of 2012, and in this case from cable science fiction. Syfy renewed Being Human for season three. The show is being very solid in its second season, granting it a comeback.
Syfy is ordering a third season (13 episodes) of its hit drama series Being Human, it was announced today by Mark Stern, President of Original Content, Syfy and Co-Head of Original Content, Universal Cable Productions. The announcement comes just four episodes into the 13-episode second season, which premiered on Monday, January 16.
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What do Face Off and Being Human have in common? Well, they both run on Syfy, they both premiere second season in January (Face Off premieres January 11, and Being Human premieres January 16), they both have great make up artists.
Well, another thing in common is that they launched some special sneak peeks.
We are reviewing all the cancelled shows and renewed shows of 2011. And this one is another good news coming to one of Syfy shows.
A good adaptation from a british good show, Syfy renews Being Human for second season, in its January 17 debut, Being Human made 2 million viewers to become Syfy’s most watched new scripted series winter premiere since Battlestar Galactica in 2005, and ever since then it has not slipped much averaging 1.8 million viewers. Taking that into account, and the fact that it has a 53% of female viewers, that makes it the most Syfy show watched by women, it turns this decision to renew Being Human by Syfy a no brainer.
This show is one of the succesful adaptations, more in the line as The Office than IT Crowd if we had to put exemplary cases.
Is Being Human british version better than US Version? Is it the other way around? That´s for you to speculate in the comments section.
So far, I can say that Being Human has been renewed for a second season by Syfy, and deservedly so.
What do you think?
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Two twentysomethings, George (a werewolf) and Mitchell (a vampire), move into a flatshare only to discover that their new home is haunted by Annie, the ghost of a previous tenant.
Aidan Turner as Mitchell
Jason Watkins as Herrick
Lenora Crichlow as Annie
I watched the pilot and it´s an ok show… could be better, but I certainly expected less…
So now…
Last weekend BBC3 debuted Being Human, their new horror/drama starring out actor Russell Tovey. The show centers around the lives of three twentysomethings living in Bristol, England trying to deal with the usual issues young folks face such as finding love, figuring out careers and trying not to kill people despite the fact they are vampires, werewolves and ghosts.
Tovey plays the unfortunate George, who apparently never watched An American Werewolf in London and therefore never learned that one should never ever walk about on the English moors late at night unless you want to get bit and watch your friend be devoured.
Going walkabout like this can lead to …. being dead like this
Indeed, in flashback we learn George and another fellow had been attacked in the not too-distant past; George survived, but caught werewolf cooties from a scratch. Of course, there are side-effects including the fact that once a month he transforms into a snarling beast — like Ann Coulter does every morning. Okay, he’s not that much of a monster
And women think their time of the month is rough. Ha!
George is actually a sweet-natured fellow who left his fiance, family and friends upon becoming a werewolf. He now works as an orderly in a hospital alongside hunky Mitchell (Aidan Turner, pictured below), himself a vampire, something that looks to have happened in some previous European war where they wore tin helmets.
No, I haven’t seen True Blood! Why does everyone keep asking me that?
And the third leg in this horror version of Three’s Company is Annie (Lenora Crichlow), a ghost. Thus far her character is the least interesting as she isn’t particularly threatening (not yet anyway) and, as is so often the case with television, her character’s motivation thus far pretty much centers on her pining for her fiance who has already moved on, natch. Maybe that we’ll send her off into murderous ghost mode.
I was quite taken by the first episode which smartly sets up each character’s back story, then gives each character a challenge involving their “condition”. In George’s case, the padded room he spends the night of his transformation in at the hospital is getting all spiffed up, meaning he’s about to transform in public. Mitchell rushes him home just in time for George to get naked (Tovey is nekkid several times) and transform into a best.
George as a werewolf and George after some thorough manscaping
Despite being about monsters Being Human is, of course, actually about the human condition, what it means to be human, yadda yadda yadda. The three live together as support for each other and, in the case of George andMitchell, to keep them from hurting us innocents in situations such as George’s no-padded-room problem.
Being a vampire, Mitchell is naturally tempted to suck upon the blood of mere mortals and it turns out that — oops — he killed a friend of theirs and lied to George about it. Awk-ward! Even worse, he might be getting ready to snack on the gal George is crushing on. It also turns out there is a whole group of vampires hanging about in Bristol and apparently they have been watching True Blood because they’ve decided it’s time to come out. Something tells me there is going to be trouble in River City.
Tovey is adorable as George, bringing the character a sweet vulnerability and decency that shouldn’t be confused with weakness. Methinks we’ll see George be plenty tough when he has to. Of course, I wish there were a gay character on the show, but I love the fact that George is straight and played by Tovey.
Overall, the show nicely mixed humor, horror and drama and left me feeling it’s better than Supernatural or Torchwood, but not yet anywhere near Buffy the Vampire Slayer status. The first season is six episodes long and is currently available for viewing on the Being Human home page on BBC3. Even though I’m in the U.S. I was able to watch it this weekend, but when I checked again today, it said it wasn’t available outside the U.K. You might pop over there and try your luck, but I suspect some lackey forgot to check the “Don’t Let Yanks Watch” box and that has been since fixed. Or maybe they’re going to make it available to everyone the first weekend it airs. If not, everyone not British might have to wait until it comes to BBC America.