What happens when a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire are thrust into one show? That's what BBC America intends to find out with its supernatural drama-comedy series, Being Human. The show gives viewers an extraordinary peek into the lives of three 20-somethings as they struggle to live normal lives while maintaining dark and strange secrets.
Being Human stars Lenora Crichlow, Russell Tovey and Aidan Turner. Crichlow, who is best known for her role as Maria "Sugar" Sweet in the British television series, Sugar Rush, plays Annie, a talkative ghost lacking in self-confidence. Portraying George the predatory werewolf is Tovey, who is credited for his role as Budgie, Gavin and Smithy's mate on Gavin & Stacey. As for Turner, who played Ruairi on the Ireland-based drama The Clinic, he woos viewers as the good-looking yet blood-thirsty Mitchell.
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Being Human, all three main characters lead secret double lives. George and Mitchell, who work in anonymous drudgery as hospital porters in Bristol, England, decide to start life afresh and leave behind the dark side. They move into a house only to find that Annie, the ghost of a woman killed in mysterious circumstances, haunts it. With a werewolf, vampire and a ghost all in one house, it becomes a monster threesome deal with challenges of their new life together.
Though they're united in their desire to blend in with their human neighbors, the road ahead is not going to be easy. Unwelcome intruders are always lurking while there's a threatened revolution from vampire underworld, as well as constant threats of exposure and everyday issues faced by young people. Luckily, they have each other.
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Being Human are Jason Watkins (William Herrick), Sinead Keenan (Nina), Gregg Chillin (Owen), Annabel Scholey (Lauren), Dylan Brown (Seth), Sama Goldie (Janey), Clare Higgins (Josie), Mykola Allen (Bernie), and Dean Lennox Kelly (Tully).
-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff ColumnistSource: BBC America
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