Being Human season 4 wraps up on April 7 and there won’t be a season 5.
The cancellation, or non-renewal, came after a request from some cast and crew, according to Sam Witwer (Aidan).
“We requested it,” he told TVGuide. “More specifically, executive producers Anna Fricke and Stefan Pleszczynski and me, among others. Frankly, because if they asked us to do a fifth season, it would have been a bad version of the show.”
Witwer said that it had become difficult to make the show, mostly because of budgeting.
“When you don’t have enough budget to do what the show requires, then you have to call in favors,” he explained. “For example: getting friends to guest and putting them up in apartments. I will have to say that filming in Montreal, the crews are amazing, but the acting talent pool is limited, unless you’re OK with them speaking French. So we had to get actors from Toronto and Vancouver and that costs money.”
The knowledge that this would be the last season led to good planning for the final season, Witwer said.
“The whole season is an ending, Because we requested it, Anna Fricke made a deal with Syfy that we'd be allowed to write to an end this year. I want to give Syfy major credit for allowing us to do that, not just have three episodes to end it with. The other part is that the British series did 37 episodes, while we did 52. That’s a lot of stories between a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost.”
The cast and crew, also, aren’t mourning the end of the show.
“We feel great,” Witwer said. “We just have to remind ourselves that this was a shock for our fans, even though we’ve been preparing for a year.”
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