Being Human

58
Metascore
2011-2014
4 seasons
Syfy
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
TV-14

Being Human... nobody ever said it was easy. But for three twenty-something roommates - vampire Aidan (Sam Witwer), ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath) and a werewolf Josh (Sam Huntington) - is it even possible? While these outsiders come to realize that there are fates even worse than death, they also discover that there's more to life (and the afterlife) than most "normal" humans could ever imagine.

58
Metascore
2011-2014
4 seasons
Syfy
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
TV-14

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Sam Witwer Previews the "Very, Very Final" End of Syfy's Being Human

Being Human, the saga of supernatural roommates who just want to be ordinary folks, loses its lease Monday after four seasons on Syfy (which adapted the British hit of the same name). Sam Witwer, who plays Aidan, the hunky and tortured vampire who bunks in a Boston townhouse with werewolves Josh (Sam Huntington) and Nora (Kristen Hager), and Sally (Meaghan Rath), the ghost he finally realizes he loves, tells TV Guide Magazine about the finale, and reveals why the show will stop chomping on our hearts.

Mon, Apr 7, 2014

Sam Witwer Previews the "Very, Very Final" End of Syfy's Being Human

Syfy Cancels Being Human After Four Seasons

Being Human has been canceled after four seasons, Syfy announced Tuesday. "Showrunner Anna Fricke and the talented producers, writers, cast and crew have...

Tue, Feb 25, 2014

Syfy Cancels Being Human After Four Seasons

BBC Cancels the Original Being Human

BBC has canceled Being Human, the network announced Thursday.

Fri, Feb 8, 2013

The Monday Playlist: Carrie Diaries, Continuum, a Bones Double Feature and More

Long before she met her Prince Charming in a man named Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw's adolescent life was still something of a swoon-inducing Cinderella story. That's the first impression from the CW's new The Carrie Diaries (8/7c, repeated an hour later), a likeably schmaltzy "prequel" to Sex and the City that finds the CW hewing closely to the ABC Family model that has lately stolen much of the channel's young-adult thunder.

Mon, Jan 14, 2013

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Supernatural Showrunner Switcheroo! Jeremy Carver Returns to Step In for Sera Gamble

No one is ever truly gone in the world of Supernatural, and this rule seems to apply to showrunners as well. Sera Gamble, who's served as co-showrunner with Robert Singer for the past two seasons of The CW drama, will be stepping down at the end of the season, making way for Being Human's Jeremy Carver, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Deadline first reported the news.

Thu, Apr 5, 2012

Supernatural Showrunner Switcheroo! Jeremy Carver Returns to Step In for Sera Gamble

First Look: Being Human's Aidan Can't Get Bishop Out of His Mind

What could be sweeter than a father and child reunion? Well, if Dad is Being Human's brutal bloodsucker Bishop (Mark Pellegrino) then, basically anything! Bishop may have been decapitated last season by Aidan (Sam Witwer), the vampire he sired centuries ago, but dead or not, on Feb. 20 he's back. The onetime Boston vampire capo returns to Syfy's addictive supernatural show as a hallucination to haunt the troubled Aidan. He's also seen in flashbacks, including during World War I, as pictured above.

Fri, Feb 10, 2012

First Look: Being Human's Aidan Can't Get Bishop Out of His Mind

Ask Matt: Downton Abbey's Meanies, Remakes, Touch, Grey's Anatomy and More!

Send questions and comments to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: I'm one of the last people one would expect to watch Downton Abbey, but after hearing the endless raves about it, I made it through the first season on DVD during a weekend, and a new episode is now one of the highlights of my TV-watching week. However, my question is about the "mean girls" (i.e. Thomas and Miss O'Brien). Sure, it's always fun to have a couple of mustache-twirling villains to root against, but unless I missed something, I guess they're supposed to be bad just for the sake of being bad.

Mon, Jan 30, 2012

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Fri, Jan 27, 2012

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Monday TV in Review: Alcatraz, Lost Girl, Being Human and More

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Mon, Jan 16, 2012

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Being Human's Supernatural Roomies Return

Syfy's addictive remake of the British hit Being Human returns for Season 2 tonight and things have gotten even trickier for the paranormal roomies now that big bad Bishop has been beheaded. "It gets dark fast," says Sam Witwer, whose 200-hundred-year-old vampire, Aidan, finds himself struggling to keep Boston's bloodsucking community under control without a leader, along with some of his own uglier instincts. "He's completely ...

Mon, Jan 16, 2012

Being Human's Supernatural Roomies Return

Lost's Mark Pellegrino Goes Noir for Castle

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Thu, Dec 8, 2011

Lost's Mark Pellegrino Goes Noir for Castle

Matt's TV Week in Review

There will come a time when we tell future generations about the good old days when serialized soaps blanketed the daytime TV landscape — the way prime time once was overrun with Westerns, variety shows and big-ticket miniseries, among other fondly remembered, now-faded formats. The latest death knell, not unexpected but still a shock when it sounded, came late this week when ABC confirmed that the venerable, iconic All My Children and the similarly long-running One Life to Live had been taken off life support. Word of their demise had circulated for some time — AMC takes its final bow in September, One Life to Life will soldier on until January — but it's still a jolt to the system when confronted with the unmistakable signs than an era is ending. Changing viewing habits and economics have conspired against scripted daytime dramas in favor of cheaper-to-produce talk/lifestyle shows. Just as the remnants of variety TV can be found in the results shows of reality competitions American Idol and Dancing With the Stars, soap intrigues have been upstaged by celeb-reality high jinks: the plastic casts of Bravo's various Real Housewives shows, the debauched antics of Jersey Shore, which is being spun off while the daily soaps dwindle to a mere few...

Fri, Apr 15, 2011

Syfy Orders Season 2 of Being Human

Syfy's supernatural roommates will be extending their lease. The cable channel announced Thursday that it ordered a second season of Being Human, a U.S. remake of a British drama. It centers on three Bostonians who share a brownstone and their supernatural secrets — Aidan (Sam Witwer) is a vampire, Josh (Sam Huntington) a werewolf, and Annie (Meaghan Rath) a ghost. The trio try to assimilate and lead normal lives.

Thu, Mar 17, 2011

Ask Matt: Relationships on Bones, Fringe, Office, Glee

Send questions to askmatt@tvguidemagazine.com and follow me on Twitter! Question: After watching the last 10 minutes of last week's Bones play out, I was left disappointed and heavy by what happened (which was a big bummer after watching the wonderful Friday Night Lights finale beforehand)...

Mon, Feb 14, 2011

Ask Matt: Relationships on Bones, Fringe, Office, Glee

Syfy's Being Human Remake Won't Be Watered Down

Syfy's Being Human remake will not water down the story lines that originated in the British series just because it's on American cable TV, the executive producers say. When adapting the show for Syfy, executive producer Jeremy Carver wanted to stay true to the darkness in the original. "It was creating a world and situations where we didn't shy from the morally ambiguous choices that our characters have to come across day to day." Syfy sets premiere dates for Being Human, other series "What we loved about the original series is that...

Mon, Jan 17, 2011

Syfy's Being Human Remake Won't Be Watered Down

Sam Witwer: The New Vampire in Town

As a proud sci-fi geek, you'd think that Sam Witwer (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica) would jump at the chance to play Aidan, a sexy 257-year-old bloodsucker in Syfy's reworking of Being Human, the BBC hit about three supernatural roomies. As it turns out, not so much...

Mon, Jan 17, 2011

Roush Review: Remakes and a Retread

Does no one have an original idea in TV land anymore? Judging from tonight's latest batch of mid-season offerings, it hardly appears so. Programmers have either gone to England for inspiration, rarely improving on the source material, or back to the drawing board of tried-and-true formats like the courtroom drama, resulting in an unhappy epidemic of deja view viewing.Want more Matt Roush? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!The best of tonight's premieres is Syfy's remake of Being Human (9/8c), and even it is a pale imitation of the provocative British original. Given the relatively limited reach of BBC America...

Mon, Jan 17, 2011

Matt's Picks: January 17-20

How I Met Your Mother (Monday, 8/7c, CBS)Finding humor in tragedy is always a tricky business, and that's the challenge facing Mother as the gang accompanies Marshall back to his Minnesota home for his father's funeral. Ted and Barney task themselves with doing whatever it takes to coax a smile or a laugh from their grieving buddy. But Marshall is distracted by an unexpected meeting with the bully who terrorized him through high school. The joke being that the bully is played by the diminutive Danny Strong (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Elsewhere, Monday is a big night for new shows on TV, with the premieres of two remakes of British series — Being Human on Syfy and Skins on MTV — plus Harry's Law on NBC and the launch of Piers Morgan's talk show (with Oprah as the first guest) on CNN...

Mon, Jan 17, 2011