COLLIDER: Executive Producers Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke Talk Syfy’s BEING HUMAN Season 2
by Christina Radish
February 6th, 2012
The Syfy drama series Being Human, currently in its second season, follows three roommates – vampire Aidan (Sam Witwer), werewolf Josh (Sam Huntington) and ghost Sally (Meaghan Rath) – who try to lead normal lives while fighting the temptations of their supernatural side. This season, the three friends are all on their own dark and destructive paths, with people from their pasts returning to threaten their futures. As they fight harder than ever to maintain their humanity, it is put more in jeopardy than ever before.
During this recent exclusive phone interview with Collider, executive producers/writers/showrunners Jeremy Carver (Supernatural) and Anna Fricke (Men in Trees, Everwood) talked about how Season 2 has evolved from what they established in Season 1, why they think their show has managed to succeed when so many other remakes and re-imaginings haven’t, how the individual journeys will affect the core friendship of the characters, how much they draw on already existing creature mythology versus using their own imagination, the ways in which the new characters will affect the existing ones, and just how dark things will get this season...
... Q: When so many TV remakes, re-boots and re-imaginings have failed, especially over the last few years, what do you think it is about this show that’s really allowed it to rise above that and succeed on its own merits?
ANNA FRICKE: "I think we had an amazing template and amazing original material to work with for the first season, and what I appreciate about the second season is that we’ve jumped away from that. But, there’s always going to be overlap because we’re swimming in the same pond. I think it’s just a really strong concept."
JEREMY CARVER: "Furthermore, I think we have a principal cast that met a very stiff challenge, in Season 1. Everyone, including us, had a picture of what they’ve already seen, and the British cast was an extraordinary collection of folks. To watch our three characters mesh and just leap off the screen in the way they did, you can’t help but just get really jazzed and be like, “We really have something here.”
FRICKE: "Yeah, the chemistry that they have is responsible for the show working."
CARVER: "So, it all feeds on each other. It feeds on the scripts getting them excited, and then their performance gets us excited, and this energy courses from us to the crew to the cast. It’s a very, very positive working environment for everyone involved because I think everyone really believes, very strongly, in this show, in its own right. There are going to be inevitable overlaps sometimes, just by virtue of them being a couple seasons ahead of us, and you see things on their show that we’ve done. It’s unavoidable. But, we’re very, very excited and proud to present Season 2..."
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