SFX MAGAZINE: Being Human’s Type Five
Showrunner Toby Whithouse discusses how episode five of the new series came to feature a new kind of supernatural creature
Ian Berriman
March 4 2012
Tonight’s episode [in the UK) of Being Human featured a new addition to the show’s line-up of supernatural creatures – a succubus! A few months back we talked to Toby [Whithouse] about the genesis of this storyline. He’s what he had to say...
... SFX: So how did you come to write an episode featuring a succubus? The zombie episode last year was very successful. Did you immediately think, ‘Well, we should do that again!”
Toby Whithouse: “"Not really. When you try and replicate success it never works! Yes, we were all absolutely thrilled with the zombie episode, because Jamie Mathieson’s script was just terrific, and Alexandra Roach’s performance was so moving. But, to be fair, it’s not that we sat down and said, ‘Okay, this year let’s have a troll’ or whatever!
“It really just comes down to us trying to find the Being Human way of doing something. So with the zombie episode the notion of this very shallow woman who’s obsessed with her looks and very surface, facile things, the notion of making that the person who’s decaying in front of your eyes, that seemed very appropriate and an interesting spin on it..."
Being Human airs at 9pm on BBC Three on Sunday nights in the UK, and in the US, on Saturday at 9/8C on BBC America.
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