SyFy has renewed both its American version of Being Human and its original reality series, Face-Off. Both freshman series performed well for the network: Being Human averages 1.8 million viewers, topping the premiere of Battlestar Galactica in 2005 and Face-Off garnered an average of 1.4 million viewers.

SyFy’s Being Human is based on the BBC series of the same name, created by Toby Whithouse. The BBC’s Being Human has just closed its third season and has been awarded a fourth. SyFy’s American version is also the network’s new most watched series by females. Being Human takes the title from Warehouse 13 with 53% of its viewers drooling over Aidan (Sam Witwer.)

[Above: Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath, and Sam Witwer]

Mark Stern, SyFy’s President of Original Content, talks about the renewal:

“Being Human has proven to be a winner for Syfy on all fronts. Using the original format as inspiration, showrunners/writers Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke – along with a superlative team of writers, cast, and production – have created an amazing, compelling series in its own right.”

Being Human stars Sam Witwer as the vampire Aidan who battles with renouncing the blood addiction, Sam Huntington as werewolf Josh trying to obtain some shred of normalcy between coping with his “monster” side and Meaghan Rath who plays Sally, the ghost who can’t move on. Being Human continues it freshman run with its finale on April 11, 2011.

Face-Off pitted special effects make-up artists against each other in a Project Runway format competition with the grand prize to launch the career of the winning artist. Face-Off has just completed its freshman run on March 16, 2011. (I won’t say who won just in case you haven’t seen the finale yet!)

No word yet on when season two of either show will premiere yet.

[Source] Deadline