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"2.22pm: I&amp;#039;m back in Ballroom 20 for the BBC America panel for Being Human. Torchwood will follow on straight after this. 2.23pm: We kick things off with a preview reel for the first season, which premiered on BBC America last night. 2.25pm: The panellists are on stage: creator Toby Whithouse, Lenora Crichlow (Annie), Russell Tovey (George) and Aidan Turner (Mitchell). 2.27pm: TW explains the genesis of the idea for the show. He says it started off as a show about three humans sharing a flat &amp;quot;but that was the dullest idea ever&amp;quot;. Then he rewrote it as a sitcom, which was &amp;quot;rubbish&amp;quot;, and then: &amp;quot;I pretended in my mind I was writing a low budget American independent film. Then that became the pilot script and there we are.&amp;quot; 2.30pm: RT on his original thoughts on the show: &amp;quot;I thought the concept sounded a bit tacky, but after reading it I thought &amp;#039;this is genius and I want to get involved 100%&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s not a send-up, a spoof, it&amp;#039;s rooted in humanity. The truth behind the characters is so special.&amp;quot; 2.32pm: LC and AT agree with Russell&amp;#039;s original thoughts on the show. AT: &amp;quot;But it&amp;#039;s exciting and it&amp;#039;s different.&amp;quot; 2.33pm: The moderator asks why the show is set in Brighton, and is corrected - it&amp;#039;s Bristol. Toby explains that because it was a BBC Wales commission it had to be set near there. &amp;quot;We felt Cardiff was already well served by Torchwood and Doctor Who, so we chose Bristol because it&amp;#039;s close to Wales.&amp;quot; 2.36pm: After a clip showcasing an angry Annie moment, Russell Tovey gets some self-pleasure from getting the crowd to do a Mexican wave. 2.41pm: Clip of George meeting another werewolf. &amp;quot;He encounters someone who&amp;#039;s very confident in their werewolf state and George doesn&amp;#039;t want to celebrate it. He&amp;#039;s the only one of the three that&amp;#039;s actually human. The other two are dead and going to stay dead. I&amp;#039;m going to go bald and grey.&amp;quot; 2.43pm: RT asks the crowd if they&amp;#039;ve seen the show. Big cheers. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve all seen my bum then, ain&amp;#039;t you?&amp;quot; he asks. 2.44pm: Mitchell clip now. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s beautiful, isn&amp;#039;t he?&amp;quot; asks RT. &amp;quot;Fit! Fit!&amp;quot; agrees LC. 2.45pm: Toby talks a bit about what happens this season. Annie trying to find out who killed her and why, for George it&amp;#039;s acceptance and for Mitchell it&amp;#039;s coming to terms with vampirism and his relationship with humanity. Of course we know all this already, don&amp;#039;t we readers? 2.49pm: Question time. Woman asks about the social allegories with the show and how intentional they are. Few jokes about STDs and shagging werewolves - but in short, the answer is yes. 2.52pm: Q about the afterlife and how that will be developed going forward. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s something we do develop a lot in series two,&amp;quot; says TW. &amp;quot;In series two, without giving anything away, the afterlife that awaits them is more fully explored. You will get an answer in about a year&amp;#039;s time.&amp;quot; 2.53pm: British girl asks about series two. &amp;quot;We start filming series two when we get back,&amp;quot; says LC. TW says TX will be January 2010, adding that next time it will be eight eps instead of six. &amp;quot;We will work our way up to the American number of episodes slowly,&amp;quot; jokes Russell. 2.54pm: TW: &amp;quot;What I&amp;#039;ve tried to do is have a completely unbroken line from series one to series two. There&amp;#039;s darkness and light, and comedy and horror. I&amp;#039;m storylining the last episode at the moment and there&amp;#039;s probably going to be some running down corridors.&amp;quot; 2.57pm: TW says cherry picked vamp stories - certain parts of mythology used. &amp;quot;In theory, it&amp;#039;s possible for vampires to come off blood.&amp;quot; Story of redemption meant that Mitchell had to come off the blood. 2.59pm: And that&amp;#039;s a wrap! Stick with us - Torchwood panel coming up next! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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