Being Human 2.0
The IMDb page for Being Human, the 2009 BBC3 series based on the pilot aired in 2008, has bizarrely failed to emerge yet, despite the series being only a month or so away from transmission. But I know a lot of you are fans of the pilot, and are interested in what's happening with it, so here are a few articles I've dug up.
DigitalSpy preview and interview with producer Matt Bouch.
Total Sci Fi article about the recast.
Narin Bahar of Reading Chronicle visits the filming and previews the show.
The pertinent details:
- Russell Tovey, who plays George, is the only member of the original leading trio cast in the new show. Replacing Guy Flanagan as Mitchell is Aidan Turner, and replacing Andrea Riseborough as Annie is Lenora Crichlow.
- The show is a fresh start, and will reintroduce the characters. Bouch says: "The pilot has been put on the shelf and won't be transmitted. It might turn up as a DVD extra at some point but it is essentially a new show."
- The tone is less "gothic", and more rooted in reality.
- The Herrick subplot (and vampire conspiracy) has been significantly reworked. Jason Watkins replaces Adrian Lester as Herrick, and plays him as "a more down-to-earth" guy, "who attempts to turn Mitchell back to the dark side."
- Lauren, the girl who Mitchell turned into a vampire, is still in the show. Her turning happens before episode one, and she'll come back to "menace" Mitchell in the course of the first episode.
- About the character of the vampire Mitchell, Bouch says: "The way we've shifted the character from the pilot is to give him a little bit more comic material and make him less of an observer. In the pilot we made him successfully feel like a vampire who was aging and had seen a lot, but he didn't feel like he was part of that trio - and we wanted to get a sense of three friends who live together and get on. Aidan brings that sense of being an equal side of the triangle."
- The character of Annie will be "slightly warmer", "more bubbly."
- The first series will contain six episodes. Episode one apparently is set about a week after the end of the original pilot.
DigitalSpy preview and interview with producer Matt Bouch.
Total Sci Fi article about the recast.
Narin Bahar of Reading Chronicle visits the filming and previews the show.
The pertinent details:
- Russell Tovey, who plays George, is the only member of the original leading trio cast in the new show. Replacing Guy Flanagan as Mitchell is Aidan Turner, and replacing Andrea Riseborough as Annie is Lenora Crichlow.
- The show is a fresh start, and will reintroduce the characters. Bouch says: "The pilot has been put on the shelf and won't be transmitted. It might turn up as a DVD extra at some point but it is essentially a new show."
- The tone is less "gothic", and more rooted in reality.
- The Herrick subplot (and vampire conspiracy) has been significantly reworked. Jason Watkins replaces Adrian Lester as Herrick, and plays him as "a more down-to-earth" guy, "who attempts to turn Mitchell back to the dark side."
- Lauren, the girl who Mitchell turned into a vampire, is still in the show. Her turning happens before episode one, and she'll come back to "menace" Mitchell in the course of the first episode.
- About the character of the vampire Mitchell, Bouch says: "The way we've shifted the character from the pilot is to give him a little bit more comic material and make him less of an observer. In the pilot we made him successfully feel like a vampire who was aging and had seen a lot, but he didn't feel like he was part of that trio - and we wanted to get a sense of three friends who live together and get on. Aidan brings that sense of being an equal side of the triangle."
- The character of Annie will be "slightly warmer", "more bubbly."
- The first series will contain six episodes. Episode one apparently is set about a week after the end of the original pilot.