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BEING HUMAN HALLOWEEN

This Halloween, BBC AMERICA invites you to spend some quality time with the supernatural in the form of George, Mitchell and Annie. Whether it’s transforming into a werewolf, acting on vampire urges, or living as a ghost, the everyday lives of these three are sure to get you in the Halloween spirit. Don’t miss the chance to see each and every episode from both seasons of Being Human in this all-day marathon. Being Human Halloween airs all day Sunday, October 31.

However, John insisted that the show would continue to blend comedy with horror, praising the program’s “multi-genre tone”.

“There are moments of fantastic gore and horror and then there are touching moments between the guys who all live together,” he explained.

Full Article: Television – News – ‘Being Human’ director teases new series – Digital Spy

Being Human is not an easy show to direct. You need a cool head to manage the complex storylines, tricky special effects and on-set tantrums (we’re looking at you Marcus Whitney). But fear not because Philip John is cool, calm and definitely in control.

Phil’s directing the second block of Being Human, consisting of episodes 3, 5 & 6. We caught up with the man himself to get his take on the new series and hear about a new guest star who’s put in a particularly good performance…

Full Article: BBC – Being Human Blog: DIRECTOR PHIL

Brit hit ‘Being Human’ bows ahead of North American remake

Everyone wants to fit in. Humans are social creatures, and we like to feel that we’re welcome among others of our kind, that we belong. Nobody likes to feel excluded, on the edge of society, an outcast. Such is the premise of Being Human, the BBC comic drama about three roommates that really don’t fit into any human clique. Why? They’re a vampire, werewolf and ghost.

Like a certain movie franchise that’s all the rage, these characters are desperate to integrate themselves into our world. Mitchell (Aidan Turner, The Tudors) is a 120-year-old vampire who has quit sucking blood cold turkey after a date with a female friend ended, well, badly. He works in a hospital alongside roomie George (Russell Tovey, The History Boys), who barks and yowls at the moon once a month. Annie (Lenora Crichlow, Sugar Rush) stays back at the flat. After all, she’s a ghost and is confined to the place where she died.

Full Article: Being Human | Sympatico.ca TV Guide

BBC America loves BEING HUMAN, and we love that you love it too! Now it’s time to get creative and show us just HOW much you love it: we’re searching for the best BEING HUMAN tribute videos.

It’s time to start creating your best BEING HUMAN videos. You can re-enact your favorite scene, put on a puppet show, do an interpretive dance – whatever you can imagine! Be creative!

Writer/Creator Toby Whithouse will select the grand prize winner – so here’s your chance to wow the man behind Mitchell, George, and Annie. Win, and your work will appear on BBC America during the BEING HUMAN Season Finale, Saturday, September 18th at 9/8c.

Contest is open for submissions as of Saturday August 22 after the premiere episode.
Log on to http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/369/being-human-tribute-video-contest.jsp for all the details, entry info and the official rules. Get those entries in early, it’s nearly a full moon and you know what that means…hairy-time!

‘I WAS going to die of old age,” agora phobic ghost Annie says at the outset of Being Human. “That was the plan.”

Plans have a way of going astray, though, as anyone who’s had dealings with vampires, ghosts and werewolves knows all too well. Being Human, a black comedy created for BBC Three by Doctor Who writer Toby Whithouse, was designed to be an eccentric hybrid of Friends and True Blood — “unnatural and supernatural, watching the dance from the sidelines,” as Annie, the hard-luck single woman and ghost, played by Lenora Crichlow, intones at her own wake. “You know the worst thing about being a ghost? It’s lonely.”

There’s just one thing for a lonely person to do: find a pair of compatible roommates and share a flat together. For Annie, that means throwing her lot in with Mitchell, a 20-something vampire — he’s actually 120 years old, but why stand on ceremony? — and George, a socially awkward werewolf, who’s a decent chap, really, once you get beneath all that hair. Together, Mitchell, played by Aidan Turner, George, played by Russell Tovey, and Annie navigate their way through life on the margins, trying to find meaning to their existence while confronting evildoers from the underworld.

Full Article: Strange bedfellows make BBC’s black comedy a hit – Winnipeg Free Press