Table Of Content
- Meet the cast of Ghosts series 5
- ‘Ghosts’ review: She sees dead people —…
- When can I watch the 'Ghosts' Christmas special?
- Charlotte Ritchie is as sad as you are that Ghosts is ending
- Ghosts' Charlotte Ritchie opens up on Fresh Meat legacy and intimacy coordinator debate
- What are your own Christmas plans?
One of the things that made Ghosts’ first series such a hit was the relationship between Smith-Bynoe and Call the Midwife star Charlotte Ritchie as Alison. The show’s premise – that the ghosts can never leave the grounds of the house – is a tragicomic trope of Britcoms, ie that the protagonists can’t escape their fate. It was Harold’s psychic wound in Steptoe and Son, and now in Ghosts all the spirits are stuck in each others’ company for good as if Button House is a home counties Hotel California.
Meet the cast of Ghosts series 5
They are delighted to have something they can watch all together that isn’t algorithmically pointed towards their generation. “But what really touches me about that is that she’s so much fonder of the ghosts that she would ever admit. I love that because there’s an undertone of real love that is completely reluctant because they drive her up the wall and make things so difficult for Mike, too. “The ghosts are driving her crazy! “Obviously, it’s exaggerated and I’m pushing it for certain effects, but she feels very human, despite being in a kind of cartoony world.
‘Ghosts’ review: She sees dead people —…
Obviously, it’s exaggerated and I’m pushing it for certain effects, but she feels very human, despite being in a kind of cartoony world. I think that's lovely that they've done that. She’s the straight person or the foil or whatever. But that means she also has emotional beats and real-life stuff to deal with.
When can I watch the 'Ghosts' Christmas special?
I've always written characters where I try create as much empathy as possible. That's the key to writing drama or comedy. The audience have to feel they know these people. Over the years, it just felt natural to do more of that. I don’t think of the comedy first, I think of the character first.
All that remains now are the repeats. “I think, more so than drama, people will go back to comedies they love and want to experience them again and find more in them,” says Baynton. “There are plenty of shows that are comfort. Sometimes you put them on so you can have a nap.” He seems to be suggesting that Ghosts is part of that soporific canon. I look at the four screens, each interviewee giggling happily at the thought of Britain not sobbing over the last episode, but dozing through repeats.
Ghosts' Charlotte Ritchie opens up on Fresh Meat legacy and intimacy coordinator debate
It's the not knowing the intent behind whatever, and having an official person who decides that takes it away from you. Honestly, working with Zawe Ashton and Kimberly Nixon on [Fresh Meat] was really formative for me. They're both very, very principled and very, very hardworking and very good. They were amazing role models for me at 21. So I think it's hard being an actor because you can't do it in a vacuum, so you do really feel validated by the fact that you're working, but you can be an actor and not be working.
I love that kind of thing where it feels like you have to really rely on each other, and try things out a bit, but I really don't know. I'm waiting to see what happens with the fifth series of You, and what happens with the strike. Well, the truth is, the people who create it are very thoughtful and clever and funny, and also have a lovely friendship between them. They've chosen to work together; they've chosen to create it together.
It’s good for our stock as a creative engine. They have seen there is a vein of pathos in there as well. When you're the bossy chops of the group, it's easy to just be that. But I think the softening of her relationship with Alison has helped that journey as well.
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Ghosts is the ultimate in comfort television, without ever seeming as if it is trying too hard to be that. It is often moving, and can catch you by surprise. There’s nothing in this season with quite the same emotional impact as the departure of Katy Wix’s Mary, though the Captain’s backstory comes close. And still, it manages to avoid being cheesy. The episodes are beautifully structured, too.
The storyline is likely to test the characters' relationships with each other. A group of spirits restlessly squabble in an abandoned country house. To their despair, a young couple inherits the house with hopeful plans to renovate it into a luxury hotel.A group of spirits restlessly squabble in an abandoned country house. To their despair, a young couple inherits the house with hopeful plans to renovate it into a luxury hotel.
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Also, she’s never afraid to say how she feels, which I think is really cool. There’s a freedom there with the ghosts. In the nicest possible way, I hope they're going, “No!
There's always something going on because they just so much put into it and there’s so much talent involved. I hope that they'll find the ending very meaningful and emotional and a suitable end to five series of a show that they've loved. Even if people didn't want it to end, hopefully they'll see the ending as a fitting tribute to the ethos of the show.
There is a neatness to proceedings, too. Kitty and the Captain are given flashbacks to their deaths, completing the deck of backstories. I was wondering if the final episode would do something profound, like Blackadder or Derry Girls. I won’t give it away, but it sends itself off in a more humble style, with an episode that feels very much like an episode of Ghosts. It certainly doesn’t feel too final, just in case there is ever any desire to revive it.
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