(Another) Superpowered Show for BBC One

[Bob The Skutter]

Toby Whithouse, the creator of Being Human, is apparently developing a new show for BBC One with his new production company. It's called Orphans and it's about people with Superpowers, but there's not much more information on it at the minute since it hasn't been picked up yet.

From SFX

“I’m reluctant to go into too much detail about the actual show at this stage, quite simply because it hasn’t been commissioned yet. But if I’m honest, I am a little surprised by the assumption that we are simply capitalising on a current trend.
“Orphans is a script I wrote in 2005. Then (as happens with exhausting regularity) there was a game of musical chairs at both the broadcaster we were developing it for and the production company I was working with. Literally everyone involved in the project was suddenly doing a different job in a different building.
“Consequently Orphans was… well, orphaned, and sat in a drawer for nearly five years, until I showed it to Matt and he suggested we make this our first Scoundrel project.
“I guess what’s more important to address is any concern regarding a crossover between this and other existing superhero shows. Well, it is possible to have two dramas that exist in similar genres yet manage to be very different. That’s something – I hope – we proved with Being Human. Even though it had vampires in it, it was still very different to Let The Right One In, True Blood, Interview With A Vampire and Ultraviolet, etc.
“Context is everything. The world Orphans takes place in is unlike anything you’ll have seen before. It’s not even the world of Being Human. Trust me. You’ll love it. If it gets made.”

This is the second superpowered show I've heard about for BBC One, the other being Superpower by Joe Ahearne...
But that one is a couple of years old... but Outcasts was older news but has now been picked up so hopefully one of these shows will be picked p.