BBC America to Co-Produce Trio of U.S. Premiere Sci-Fi Shows

NEW YORK: BBC America has signed up to co-produce the new season of Being Human, along with the previously announced co-pros Outcasts and Bedlam, for its Supernatural Saturday lineup.

BBC America is co-producing the new season of the British original Being Human. The fourth season, of eight hour-long episodes, will air in spring 2012. BBC America is co-producing along with BBC Drama Productions and BBC Three. The show is produced by Touchpaper Wales. It was written and created by Toby Whithouse (Doctor Who, Torchwood).

The sci-fi drama Outcasts is a co-production with BBC America, Kudos Film & Television and BBC. Created and written by Ben Richards, the series premieres June 18 at 9 p.m. It stars Eric Mabius (Ugly Betty, The L Word), Liam Cunningham (Clash of the Titans) and Hermione Norris (MI-5, Wire in the Blood). The show explores survival, sex, politics and the drive for power in a new post-Earth era.

Bedlam is co-produced by BBC America and Red Productions. The series stars singer and actor Will Young (Pop Idol winner, Skins), Charlotte Salt (The Tudors) and Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey), and is written by Neil Jones, David Allison and Chris Parker. The story is set in an apartment building converted from a pre-Victorian lunatic asylum, unfolding as the former asylum spirits come back to claim what they believe is theirs and seek revenge on those who have wronged them. The show premieres October 8 at 9 p.m.