The team that brought us the BBC’s hit series “Being Human” is now set to develop a project about superheroes. Show creator Toby Whithouse and producer Matthew Bouch have teamed up again on a new six-episode, hour-long drama for BBC1 called “Orphans”. This project marks the launch of the duo’s own production company, Scoundrel.

“Orphans” centers on a “disparate group of superheroes who live in a world that appears like our own but is gradually revealed to be quite different”. Whithouse and Bouch will give an edge to their superhero drama in the same sense as they did for the vampire and werewolf genre with “Being Human”. Bouch spoke to Broadcast magazine about the creative partnership with Whithouse:

“In the process of doing “Being Human” we discovered our sensibilities were very similar. They are very unorthodox in a way, certainly in the combinations of genres that we use. We needed to set up on our own so that we could enjoy that freedom and the spoils of our labour.”

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From what I’ve seen with what Whithouse and Bouch have done with “Being Human”, I have high hopes for them in their new endeavor. I have been incredibly impressed with “Being Human” and would go as far as declaring it the best new show of 2009! Seriously, considering how dismal “Heroes” has become, a new take on superheroes will clear everyone’s palate quite nicely.

[Source] SFX