Look at that would you: they’re already beginning work on series two of Being Human. Here for your delectation are some vids, one of the effects work in progress, one of the filming, one of the producers having a chat about series two and one of the read through. There’s also a Q&A with writer/creator Toby Whithouse. Enjoy!
Being Human
I’m back – and the pilot for Being Human again
Hello, everyone! I’m back from sunny Santorini to find London is sunny again. How did that happen?
Anyway, glad to see nothing happened to the blog while I was gone and that everyone seemed moderately entertained in my absence. Over the next few days, the blog will return to normal, and the news will start again on Monday. I should have a few reviews lined up of Big Finish audio plays, as well as of the premiere of season three of Mad Men – and, fingers crossed, a preview of the first episode of the fourth season of Dexter.
Until then, seeing as BBC America is showing Being Human and everyone over in the States is getting all excited about it, I thought I’d post the pilot episode, which introduced the characters albeit with a mostly different cast. To those Americans who are just getting into Being Human, have a check through the articles tagged ‘Being Human’ on the blog, since I’ve included a Q&A with the cast and producers, amongst other things. I’d already posted the pilot (and some prequel vids) once before, but YouTube seem to have taken them down, so this should act as a replacement.
How have you all been, by the way?
Thursday’s new Rockford Files news
Film
- Steven Spielberg to direct Matt Helm movies?
- Jennifer Aniston to star in Pumas
- Michael Sheen to appear in Tron Legacy
British TV
- STV updates content on its web player
- MSN developing its own UK media player
- Virgin Media to carry Channel 4 HD
- Being Human series two begins filming in two weeks [spoilers]
- Chris Chibnall leaving Law & Order UK
Canadian TV
- Tonya Lee Williams joins The Border
US TV
- Marti Noxon adapting Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain…
- …and gives Diane Keaton her own HBO comedy
- House creator David Shore working on new version of The Rockford Files
- Warehouse 13 ratings growing
- Franka Potente to guest star on House
- Bones to cross over with Lie to Me?
- Donal Logue joins Terriers
- Chris Gorham to star with Piper Perabo in Covert Affairs
News
Thursday’s virtual den news
Doctor Who
- Billie explains “Ten Inch”
- Catherine Tate to play queen of Lilliput in new Jack Black movie Gulliver’s Travels
Film
- Movie version of Rome might be happening
- Film 4 in danger
British TV
- The two online dragons for Dragons’ Den are announced
- Being Human to continue online between series, have a behind-the-scenes documentary on 28th March
- Living acquires Eleventh Hour
- BBC3 acquires the forthcoming Harper’s Island
US TV
- Freddie Prinze Jr to star in No Heroics
- Kanye West to provide voice for Cleveland Family Guy spin-off
- Robert Carlyle talks Stargate: Universe [spoilers]
- Whither Trust Me? Eric McCormack to star in comedy pilot
- Watch the first episode of the third season of The Tudors [US only]
UK TV
Review: Doctor Who: Key 2 Time – Destroyer of Delights
On, then, to adventure two in the three-part (or is it four-part if we include that Companion Chronicle?) Key 2 Time series, an only slightly painful affair in which the Fifth Doctor has to travel around the universe looking for the segments of the Key to Time. Again.
Part two carries on directly from part one with the arrival of the Black Guardian, played by David "son of Patrick" Troughton. But all is not as it seems and pretty soon we’re (literally) in Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves territory for a historical with more than a few sci-fi overtones – and that nasty vampire from Being Human.
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