Geeky Allison tells Tom about the werewolf videos being uploaded to the web

Puppy Love in a nutshell: Tom and Hal both score love interests, and we meet Allison, a debate champion-slash-werewolf who tracks down Tom to reveal that he’s a YouTube star. For all the wrong reasons. And just to keep Annie busy, she gets saddled with the ghost of a curmudgeonly old neighbour whom she helps pass over to the afterlife.

Tom and Allison

How perfect was Ellie Kendrick as uber-swot Allison? The geeky student finds Tom to tell him there’s a video of him changing into a werewolf on YouTube. There’s something charming in these two naive, awkward characters coming together, and there are a couple of brilliant sequences where Allison helps Tom sharpen his debate skills while Tom helps Allison be better with sharpened stakes.

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Caption Competition? What's shocking Hal and Annie?

Not one, but three new arrivals at Honolulu Heights in next Sunday’s episode of Being Human. The episode titled Puppy Love will see Tom besotted with a new werewolf called Allison, and Hal goes on a date with Alex, a customer from the cafe. Is love in the air for our supernatural housemates?

Rounding out the guest cast is Anthony O’Donnell as Emrys, a grumpy ghost-next-door who Annie will help to cross over. Yes, like Ghost Whisperer. Here’s the official synopsis, followed by the promo pictures for Puppy Love:
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On next week’s Being Human, romance is in the air for Tom when gangly werewolf Allison show up, asking for help and assiatance.

It turns out that a mysterious character is intent on telling the world about the existence of werewolves but understandably, she is desperate to find and stop them and get to the bottom of the crisis.

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We take a departure from our regularly scheduled Being Human story arc to resurrect a vulgar, annoying character called Adam and introduce his new floozy, a frumpy headmistress who just happens to be irresistible to men.

It was all going so well, too. The arc about the War Child and Tom discovering the burn on his arm, seemingly sealing the prophecy that he would kill baby Eve. And then someone decided to write a completely throwaway episode in which Adam returns with a middle aged woman amid an age-gap scandal.

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It could well be that Alfie Kirby enters the Being Human history books tonight as the creepiest character ever to appear on the show. For those of you interested, he’s played tonight by James Lance channelling a fusion of Gok Wan and David Walliams with a hint of 1970′s Blue Peter presenter. And while that might seem cute and inoffensive, trust me it’s not.

Read on for our review and recap of Being Human’s A Spectre Calls…(P.S. that was a spoiler warning…)

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So, the writers of Being Human anticipated that legions of you would be grumbling about the loss of most of the original cast and the introduction of Hal. As fans of the show, it must be reassuring to know that all those months ago, they wrote an episode focussing on that very issue.

Essentially, The Graveyard Shift takes a bit of time out from the grim Warchild story arc to develop the relationships between Annie, Hal and Tom. What are the essential ingredients in deepening the bond between the flatmates? Well, Being Human has effectively used flashbacks in the past to give us new insights into its characters. So, flashback to Hal’s bloody past. Check. Next throw in some bonding time where the housemates’ trust is challenged and they face a common enemy together. Oh, and some weird kinky ghost-vampire-memory-sex stuff with Ron Weasley’s dad.

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Being Human 1955 – George is dead, baby Eve is an orphan, but there’s no hanging around at Honolulu Heights as Annie and Tom, the surviving members of our supernatural family receive some unexpected guests.

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Nina, George and Annie at the end of Being Human series 3

You know, this episode of Being Human could have gone horribly wrong. Not only had we lost Mitchell (Aidan Turner) at the end of Series 3, but our last vision of the Honolulu Heights housemates was George, Annie and Nina standing shoulder to shoulder against new vampire antagonist Wyndham.

By the time the opening credits rolled on the Series 4 premiere of Being Human, Wyndham was the shortest-lived baddie in vampire history and Nina had been brutally bludgeoned to death (off-screen). And by the time the episode ended George, the always wonderful Russell Tovey, had gone through his door to the afterlife.

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On how he got the part…

I got the part when the casting director came to my drama centre showcase last February and she brought me in to read for the part of Hal. I was doing a play up in Leeds at the time so I was back and forth on the train the entire time. I met Michael at the recall and they put us together, up against a wall, to see what the two of us looked like together and I didn’t realise how short Michael was at the time! It took me back! I got a call from my agent 3 days later just before I was about to go on stage and she told me they had offered me the part!

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Being Human will soon return to BBC Three for the fourth series but some of the most familiar faces will be missing from the show.

Mitchell (Aidan Turner) died during the series three finale, while Russell Tovey (George) has admitted that he will have a lesser role in series four and it will also be his last. It has been confirmed that Sinead Keenan has also quit her role as werewolf Nina.

Thankfully Lenora Crichlow will be back as ghost Annie, Damien Molony will join the cast as vampire Hal and Michael Socha has been promoted to a lead character in his role as werewolf Tom.

Check over the character profiles below….

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On returning to play Annie this series…

I was so excited to be back! So much has changed in the show it was really exciting and I didn’t know what to expect. In this series we go back to more of the original comedy, relationship side of Being Human, which I have always enjoyed playing in the past. It’s a much more domestic side of the show, but it also promises all the drama and gore of the underworld as well.

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Being Human series four – An introduction by Toby Whithouse

Every year we set ourselves the task of creating something bigger and bolder and better than anything that’s happened before. We knew this year was going to be especially tough because of the various cast changes. Not only would it be our first series without Aiden, but Russell had decided that series 4 would be his last, and Sinead had decided that her Being Human journey had come to an end after series 3. The mountain before us seemed even higher than usual.

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Russell Tovery as Midshipman Alonso Frame

Russell Tovey has went and landed himself a juicy role in hit BBC drama ‘Sherlock’.

The ‘Being Human’ actor will reportedly appear on a guest starring basis in the second series of the detective TV show – which was created by ‘Doctor Who’ writers Steven Moffatt and Mark Gatiss. His episode will be titled ‘The Hounds of Baskerville’, and was written by was penned by The League of Gentlemen, star Mark.

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Being Human creator Toby Whithouse has revealed that it was not his decision to kill off John Mitchell on last night’s series finale.

Writing on the show’s official BBC website, the writer explained that actor Aidan Turner asked if his character John Mitchell could die as part of the spectacular episode.

Turner has landed a role in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit and will play Kíli the Dwarf in the Hollywood blockbuster. Viewers took to Twitter in their thousands last night as his Being Human character died and writing after the show aired, Whithouse admitted that he had always known one of his major stars would leave.

He said:

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