Being Human...USA?

[Dannyalcatraz]

While watching the "mid-season finale" of SG:U, SyFy aired an ad for an American version of Being Human. I'm torn- I love the original, and wouldn't be averse to a USA version, but something about the ad and wiki article about it makes it seem to me as if the new series will still be set in England...

And if true, I think that would be a horrible mistake. Still, FINGERS CROSSED!

 

[Hand of Evil]

Also think the show is a mistake but will see.

 

[john112364]

Thanks for pointing this out. I had never heard of Being Human before, but after checking it out it looks really good. Where does one go about watching this in the US?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The most excellent British series is still in production, but is not currently on air. Watch BBC America- when the new season starts, they may just mix in some reruns or build up to the season opener with the previous season.

In the meantime, SyFy looks to be airing the new American version in January.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I agree that this seems a mistake.

I offer into evidence the American version of Life on Mars.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Given that it's Syfy, I'm not terribly hopeful either. I love Being Human, and I don't see it really needing an "Americanization" to make it broadly accessible. I'll give it a chance, but that's about it.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Saw the girl playing the ghost on an episode of "Ghost Hunters" - hopefully she's a better actress than her real life personality, otherwise the show is doomed (she's a whiney, nasally, irritating, over-emotional and unintelligent person IRL (at least from what was rolled on live film while hunting ghosts)).

 

[Felon]

I started watching the show, and while it had great promise, it was pretty obviously getting bogged into the tired vampires as secret overlords schtick. You know the deal. Humans are cattle, aren't we oh-so decadent. Same thing as in Underworld, True Blood, VtM, Blade, yadda yadda. Yawn time!

Did the show ever get out from under this.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

They actually aren't secret overlords in the series. Instead, they made strategic alliances with certain humans: police chiefs, coroners, etc.- in order to maintain the secret if their existence. They work with those humans and with each other because to do otherwise invites destruction. They're more like parasites than overlords.

Part of the reason it works is that vampires in this setting are not perpetually bloodlust driven killers who need human blood to live. Instead, their relationship with blood is more like junkie and drug.

The decadent ones fall into a couple of classes- the truly mad, the would-be overlords (who want what the vampires of fiction have), and the numb jaded ones. But they're more diverse than that. The show's lead was once l
One of their leaders...until he gave up human blood, making him outcast.

 

[frankthedm]

Does it even really need an American version? I have not caught it yet, so maybe the situations require working knowledge of British idiosyncrasies, but why else would a US remake be needed? Barring an important character speaking in indecipherable cockney, what's the barrier for US viewers?