Russell Tovey exits Being Human
Russell Tovey has quit UK horror series Being Human, following on from the departure of Aidan Turner.
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UK actor Russell Tovey (pictured, right) is a werewolf no more…
He has quit BBC3 horror series Being Human.
Tovey told The Guardian during an interview, “Well, I’ve actually left Being Human but no one [outside of the show] knows yet.”
His exit follows Aidan Turner’s (pictured, left) departure as his character, Mitchell the vampire, was killed off by George in the season three finale.
“Aidan’s left to film The Hobbit in New Zealand and going on without him on this fourth series felt strange,” says Tovey.
This leaves Lenora Crichlow as the ghostly Annie as the sole remaining member of the original trio but Tovey insists the show can continue.
“Toby [Whithouse, writer] still runs it and they can do all sorts … add giants and robots!
Returning for season four are Michael Socha, Craig Roberts and joining is Irish actor Damien Molony.
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@iolanthe: I often wonder the same thing myself.
The only reason I can come up with is that there’s a huge cultural block in the development, approval, and commissioning process that limits the production of TV to “fluff”, “quintessentially Australian”, or “worthy Australian”.
The first gets made because it’s either cheap or easily saleable overseas, the latter two get made because of some misplaced belief that Australians will only accept Australian-made content if it’s heavy on the parochialism.
Hence you get Neighbours, Packed to the Rafters, & assorted quiz/panel/comedy shows (fluff); McLeods Daughters, Sea Patrol, Seachange, & Bed of Roses (quintessentially Australian), or The Slap (worthy Australian).
The only thing that regularly escapes those limitations is kids TV. I’m thinking stuff like Thunderstone, etc. – which reminds me, it’s been a while since we’ve seen anything from Schiff.
Time to put it to bed – it can’t work without George and not sure it could without Mitchell. I thought the last series was actually the weakest anyway so it had pretty much run its course.
One thing that occurred to me while watching though was why Australian TV couldn’t make something like this? There were minimal special effects and it was almost entirely character driven so the usual excuses about not having the budgets don’t apply – bascially you need to be able to film in an urban setting which the endless array of Neighbours etc suggests we can do quite well. Yet I have no doubt that something like this is beyond Australian TV. But why?
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!
The American version actually isn’t too bad – although it lacks the humour of the UK version. The scenes with the old generation of Vampires were particularly well done.
such a shame, this one was so much better than the american, yet it will probably continue on while this now seems doomed.
This is terrible news. Hopefully Whitehouse and the casting director can save the show.
The American version was so bad and is no replacement.
That is the end of it then … it will not work eithout them!
its the end now damm
What they should do is place the series in hiatus for a year or two, until both actors become available again.
That sucks. First Turner, then this.
Personally, I much prefer the UK version to the North American. Witwer’s puckering is so off-putting.
Meh. couldn’t get into the UK version at all – possibly because I started with the American version first. I really liked Sam Witwer in the main role, he was brilliant!
Very interesting because I usually like UK series like Skins and Misfits and am not interested in the American adaptations of them at all…but in this case its the reverse.
Oh dear. With both of them gone sadly, just let it die.
well that sucks!