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Thinking back to the other pilots in the series, I can see your point. I'm sure there'll still be quite a few viewers outside that age demographic though.

...and yeah, I know the entire channel's geared towards programming for younger folk, but that just makes it stranger that they'd make a point of this being for young people. Comes across as a bit patronising to me, like they're saying it's not proper "adult" drama or something.

Good. It deserves a second series, but could someone explain something to me?

Danny Cohen, Controller BBC Three said "'I'm thrilled that we are re-commissioning Being Human. It's hugely popular with young viewers and earned great critical acclaim at the same time. It's also a very important staging-post in the successful development of home-grown young drama on BBC Three."

What's with all the emphasis on youngness?

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I was just reading about this on the Beeb...
Words fail me. I am, in general, an admirer of the song writing talents of Mr Edge and Mr Vox, but jesus christ... I can't think of anything to rhyme with 'Spider-man' other than 'Does whatever a spider can', of course...

Cider can.

I am Kirk.

I think with Slaine you could argue the case that it's more of an adaptation than a rip-off.

The way I look at it, the difference between a story that's been influenced by something else and one that's a total rip-off is this...

A story that borrows another's main idea, (or core concept, if you prefer),  has been heavily influenced by it.

A story that takes another's concept but also takes entire scenes from the story with little or no alterations is a total rip-off.

There were definitely scenes set in France in the telly programme. I can remember seeing a shot of a ruined Eiffel Tower.

I can also remember a message appearing along the bottom of the screen announcing that Prince Harry had just been born during a scene in which I think Beanpole and the lead character chappy were sitting at a table waffling on about something.

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I've just been looking at a Being Human fan page on Facebook. The amount of people "becoming fans" is going up at one heck of a rate.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Being-Hum ... 687?ref=nf

I would take that as a good indication of its popularity.

This programme is actually really quite good, isn't it?

This is where somebody says something about a red ring.

and Bizarley enough Duck McScrooge (donald Duck charater) Who had some wonderfull books but only ever in French.This was back in the early seventies.

Shouldn't that be Scrooge McDuck or is that some odd French translation of the name?

[Iznogoud]

I can see Iznogoud (he wants to be Caliph instead of the Caliph), on that page. I've got an old Iznogoud book somewhere.

There's something very familiar looking about this chappy on the same site... //http://www.cinebook.co.uk/catalogue~cat~A-008-036B.asp