When a photographer arrives to take some promotional shots of the building (“If you could avoid the bad bits,” pleads Alison. 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Playing the mortal married couple, online comedian Smith-Bynoe and the more familiar Ritchie (best known as Fresh Meat’s Oregon and Call the Midwife’s tragic Nurse Barbara) had some convincing chemistry. From Ellen to R Kelly: what happens to celebrity lookalikes when their star gets cancelled? The Monty Python-meets-Blackadder script delivered laughs, the cast’s precision timing had been honed by a decade together, and their mismatched characters teemed with potential. The scene-stealers were the inexplicably trouserless politician Julian (Simon Farnaby), failed Romantic poet Thomas (Mathew Baynton), and grunting caveman Robin (Rickard again). Just one catch: the peaceful old pile was haunted by the spectres of its former inhabitants. Odd that Ghosts, the new sitcom from the gifted team behind Yonderland and CBBC’s Horrible Histories, was scheduled post-watershed. This episode references another sitcom, Friends, and Ghosts is just as lovingly crafted and warm-spirited. I confess that it never once lost its ability to make me cackle like a schoolkid (“Oh no! I just wish it was on a bit earlier so that younger audiences could enjoy it too. As well as Rentaghost, there were echoes of Beetlejuice and Oscar Wilde’s Canterville Ghost. Strictly Come Dancing 2020 celebrity line up: meet this year's contestants, Henry VIII: Rise of a Tyrant, review: a handy Tudor primer that left out the juicy bits, Inside the Tower of London, review: a jolly, fact-filled peek inside the Tower, Think Dominic West is bad? It also pulls off the rare trick of appealing to both children and adults; even though it is squarely aimed at the latter, its origins in the Horrible Histories stable means there is much to enjoy for all age groups. The odd ribald gag and mild scare aside, this quaintly innocent creation could have worked as teatime family viewing. It helps that the cast is uniformly great, from the reluctant, gentle patience of Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Alison and Mike, to the spectrum of daftness that is the ghosts. The series follows a collection of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants. It's usually pop stars that have to make that tricky leap from attracting a young fanbase to pulling in a mature audience. “What, all of them?” he replies), we discover that Lady Fanny Button is more photogenic than the rest of the pack, and has a habit of making her presence known whenever a lens is pointing at her. A photo of her spectral form at the window goes viral. Carol Midgley. The fact that Fanny is called Fanny is regularly called upon as a punchline, and this stands as a good measure of one’s tolerance for the humour. Hello! It's usually pop stars that have to make that tricky leap from attracting a young fanbase to pulling in a mature audience. Find out more, The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. If the BBC is worried that ghosts will frighten kids, has it never heard of Hogwarts? However, the inheritance came with some hitchhikers, in the form of the restless spirits of many of the house’s previous inhabitants. Photograph: Steven Peskett/BBC/Monumental Television. 3. Julian will do some poltergeisty tricks, but only if he gets something in return. When is Ghosts back on TV? Here it's the turn of the Horrible Histories ensemble who make the move into the prestigious post-watershed BBC One slot (via Sky's Yonderland) with this adult sitcom which they both wrote and star in. Thanks for reading all the way down. The series is written and performed by many of the cast members of Horrible Histories and Yonderland. So they all get together, and by coincidence it’s the lunar eclipse. 894646. Tap ‘Menu’ and then ‘Times Radio’ to listen to the latest well-informed debate, expert analysis and breaking news. With Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick. Simon Farnaby on new BBC comedy Ghosts: 'It probably is a good time for lampooning a Tory MP' The co-creator and star of Horrible Histories and … Ghosts is a 2019 British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One in April 2019. The gaggle of ghosts were an amusingly motley crew from history. Ghosts, episode 2, review: comedy with a silly ray of springtime sunshine and witty horror movie tropes 4. After a bumpy beginning, the first series settled the differences between humans and spectres, to some extent, and the living couple have found something approaching harmony with their less corporeal counterparts. While there is also a hint of Blackadder (maybe because of Ben Willbond's military uniform) this is very gentle comedy. To recap: young, broke couple Mike and Alison were thrown a lifeline in the hellish business of trying to find an affordable home, when Alison’s distant relative died and left her a majestic manor called Button House. Inevitably, when crowds of ghost-hunters descend on Button House, there is a brilliantly tetchy standoff between the couple and their deceased housemates, who attempt to manipulate each other into showing off for each other’s benefit, badly, and with predictably shambolic results. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. Presumably of lovesickness. Registered in England No. “If your mansion house needs haunting, just call Rentaghost / We’ve got spooks and ghouls and freaks and fools at Rentaghost…”. here. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Aptly, then, Ghosts felt like television from yesteryear. No scene is left unmined for gags,with jokes that are clever and crude, often in the same breath, and an intelligence that is worn lightly. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Over my dead body!”) decided to oust them. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Ghosts, episode 1, review: a retro house-share sitcom with some wonderfully goofy supernatural guests 4 ... might have experienced a shiver of déjà vu while watching Ghosts (BBC … My 10-year-old son enjoyed it just as much as his parents. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. The wonderfully barmy Ghosts (BBC One) is back for a second series, and it remains a riot of high-energy slapstick and silliness. I have seen so many estate agent listings for outrageously priced flats with toilets in the kitchen, beds suspended from the ceiling and a view that consists of a window into another box room, that at this stage I would take all of the ghosts that history could fling at me. A poignant scene where Fanny confessed that she’d been murdered by her husband was undercut by her explanation: “I caught him ’pon the groundskeeper, with the butler ’pon him.” Her phantom friends helpfully pointed out that this was termed a “mandwich”. There is much to enjoy as we meet various undead characters, who are doomed to appear as they did when they died. Alison and Mike are hosting a dinner party in Ghosts, the sitcom from the team behind CBBC’s Horrible Histories. Great British Bake Off 2020 contestants: meet this year's bakers, What’s on TV tonight: Cliff Richard Night, La Révolution, Graham Norton and more, Last night’s TV: what Telegraph reviewers made of Taskmaster and The Trump Show, Damian Lewis interview: ‘I’m much less rigorously alpha male than my characters’, Taskmaster, series 10, review: so much fun, you could almost forget the pandemic, The Trump Show, review: sniggering inside the corridors of power with the White House gossips. Visitors to the house rarely leave on good terms, but it is satisfying to watch the “podder, blogger, vlogger and psylogger” (psychic blogger) who chats to a spirit guide called Tony get the full brunt of the ghosts’ near-heroically awful hauntings. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Read our community guidelines in full, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, Charlotte Ritchie as Alison and Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Mike, in front of an unearthly host, The ghosts (l-r): Martha Howe-Douglas, Ben Willbond, Simon Farnaby, Lolly Adefope, Katy Wix, Mathew Baynton. There was the Edwardian matriarch Fanny Button (Martha Howe-Douglas), headless Humphrey (Laurence Rickard), naive 17th-century lady Kitty (Lolly Adefope), and medieval witch Mary (Katy Wix). We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Severed heads were dropped. TV review: Ghosts; A House Through Time. With Lolly Adefope, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Jim Howick. Their dream of selling Button Hall and turning it into a five-star hotel and spa has hit the bumpers, what with the plague pit in the basement putting off potential buyers, and money is tighter than ever. Are you sure you want to submit this vote? By Bruce Dessau on 15/4/2019. If you’ve been watching Ghosts you will know about Alison and Mike’s unconventional living arrangements — Alison inherited a stately home and she and Mike are converting it into a hotel. Screams pierced the darkness. There has been talk of a US adaptation, though if it goes ahead, whether it can harness a humour that feels particular in its Britishness remains to be seen. I don’t know what BBC One was thinking last time scheduling it at 9.30pm: it’s hardly Fleabag. Ditto when the ghost hunters wanted “a few. Fanny’s exposed.” Fanny being the name of the ghost of a posh old lady (Martha Howe-Douglas). “It’s actually known as a Moroccan tea party,” added Julian. See? “No one wants a haunted wedding,” complains Alison, which suggests that she has not wasted many hours of her life watching Don’t Tell the Bride, a programme that reveals there is no such thing as “a bit much” when it comes to a wedding theme. If they can cope with a dead schoolgirl crying in the crapper they can cope with a dead MP. Obviously it features dead people, but they are the jolly, non-scary kind, so that can’t be it. It is one of the least demanding sitcoms on television – and one of the most charming. At first the ghosts help, turning stealth detectives to find out what the Beg-Chetwyndes are up to. The first prime-time comedy from the troupe behind award-winning CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories – a firm favourite with my children – was essentially a classic house-share sitcom with added ghouls. Tonight we see a social occasion with multiple agendas. Except it’s haunted. The writers have had fun with the names of these new characters: Barclay Beg-Chetwynde (Geoff McGivern, who has a good line in playing rambunctious, slippery neighbours) and his wife Bunny (Sophie Thompson) have been summering in Tuscany, but now they are back in business mode and there are questions over whether Alison and Mike owe them rent money. And West Horsley Place in Surrey made for a ravishing location. Strictly Come Dancing 2020: when does it start, and how will this year's show work? A group of spirits restlessly squabble in an abandoned country home. Please, Laurence Rickard and Charlotte Ritchie in the cheerful Ghosts, Listen to Times Radio for the latest well-informed debate, expert analysis and breaking news.
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