Probably going to be in Sunday’s episode, but here’s a clip of Mitchell going for a job interview in Being Human. Incidentally, Being Human creator Toby Whithouse has cited Ultraviolet as one of his influences – a man of taste.
Being Human
Wednesday’s “Edgar Allan Poe: detective” news
Film
- Naomi Watts joins J Edgar
Theatre
- Smack the Pony trio reunite on stage
British TV
- Sky 3 to become Pick TV [subscription required]
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood to get an ending in BBC adaptation
- An Outcasts press pack
US TV
- Fox orders Council of Dads and Family Album
- Ratings: Being Human up, Skins down, Cape down a lot, Harry’s Law stable
- NBC picks up Stephen Gaghan‘s SILA
- ABC picks up Edgar Allan Poe detective series and Pan Am soap…
- …as well as two comedies, Work It and Lost and Found
- Oh FFS. McG to direct Wonder Woman pilot?
Tuesday’s lesbian rom-com news
Film
- Bon Jovi, Seth Meyers and Til Schweiger join New Year’s Eve
Theatre
- Donna Air to star in The Watcher
British TV
- New Being Human gets 1.3m
US TV
- Fox picks up another comedy pilot
- NBC picks up lesbian rom-com
- CBS picks up The Doctor and Hail Mary
- Spartacus prequel gives Starz record ratings
- More pilot casting
- Leonard Nimoy returning to Fringe?
Wednesday’s “German number one” news
Books
- A new Sherlock Holmes novel
Film
- James Franco to star as Richard Ramirez in The Night Stalker
- Vera Farmiga and Mia Wasikowska to join A View From The Bridge
British TV
- Digital TV uptake passes 90% [subscription required]
US TV
- Fox orders pilot for Tim Kring’s Touch…
- …and Rob Thomas’s little league comedy Little in Common
- Being Human and Skins adaptations set new ratings records
- Harry’s Law does okay
- Fourth season for Sanctuary
- L&A: LO pulled
- Danni Lowinski to be first ever German TV showed adapted for the US
- Santiago Cabrera joins Alcatraz, Larisa Oleynik joins Hawaii Five-0 + other casting
- William Sadler to guest on Chase [minor spoilers]
- SGU revival being planned
- ABC Family acquires Teach
US TV
Review: Being Human (US) 1×1
In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, SyFy
In Canada: Mondays, 10E/P, Space
Do you see that headline? “Being Human (US)“. That’s a lie that is.
Because although everything up to now would have told you this was a US remake of the hit BBC3 show about a vampire, werewolf and a ghost house-sharing and coping with life together, this is actually a Canadian remake: it’s made by a Canadian production company in Canada.
Does that change your expectations? I have to confess it lowered mine. Sure, Canada now makes things like Being Erica, but it also makes things like The Listener and Lost Girl, and has a whole history of rubbish fantasy shows for us to point at and worry about.
Either way, you probably want to know what they’ve done to it to adapt it for the US (and Canada). Is everything identical, just set in America and with different actors? Or is this an altogether different show?
You probably also want to know if it’s any good. Follow me after the jump to find out. Once you’ve watched the trailer, that is.