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( Being Human 2x01 )

Also, BBC books is publishing Being Human tie-in novels come February. Anyone have a guess as to their availability in the States?

( Chuck 2x1, 2x2 )

Syfy greenlit American version of Being Human Auugh! Real nightmares. Chances of this being good? 50:1. Chances of this turning into fandom's new black? 5:1. I'm not deeply attached to Annie being black in this story (in some ways, in the American context, I think Irish Mitchell being translated to some sort of not-white situation may make more sense [actually, having given two seconds of thought, I think I might go for African-American Mitchell {although not WWI era in that case, either aged up to the Civil War or down to WW II/Korea} and Annie as a child of immigrants]) but if they are all white I will throw a shit fit. I will probably want to punch fandom in the face all the time regardless.

Tim Gunn on ProjRun 6 & 7 This makes me 10000% more likely to tune in to season 7. I was seriously considering giving it up completely, seeing just how horrible season 6 was and how much the pre-promotion on s6 insisted that nothing had changed when, clearly, everything had changed in a terrible, terrible way. One thing I don't remember, though, is Victoria Hong (season 4) being a terrible person.

Stephen Colbert rants about the sanctity of heterosexual burial Awesome (via justacat)

Manpain chart So, so, so apt. Also, don't forget to watch NCIS: LA tonight! (via cofax7)

Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization Since we don't need bookstores to buy books, bookstores are going to have to do something else to get money

I should have talked this up earlier, but I forgot.

Tonight is the premiere of Being Human on BBC America.

Being Human is a lovely tv show about a ghost, a vampire, and a werewolf who are housemates. The vampire and the werewolf work as orderlies in a hospital. (The ghost, Annie, is only intermittently visible, and, consequently, does not maintain regular employment. Also, she's dead; who would hire her?)

The tone of the show is actually quite analoguous to that of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a mix of humor and horror, with slightly less overt sexiness. However, it's a much more adult show; these are twenty/thirty-somethings. (Well, Mitchell, the vampire, is closer to one hundred twenty-something, but he's only recently embarked on the plan of becoming an upstanding, contributing, non-blood-drinking member of society, so it's like he's just started into adulthood.)

Did I mention that George is a bit of a Xander-type, who hates being a werewolf? A lot?

Anyway, I really recommend it, and it's on at 9 p.m. tonight. (Check youtube for oodles of behind the scenes clips.)