Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie: Christmas special is a joy

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• Comedy
• Top cast
• BBC confirms a third series of the hit Death in Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise
• Ghosts is back! Where do we find Mike and Alison?
• ‘Scoop’: Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell star in Netflix’s film about that BBC Newsnight interview
• hit British period drama TV series returning in 2024 with new seasons
• ‘After rehearsal, my face hurts from laughing!’ The Ghosts cast on fun, fame and their festive farewell

It’s sad, but it was the right time to end it. We didn't want people to say, “Oh, it's not as good as it used to be.” You always want to leave them wanting more. I don’t think the sixth series of anything is the best. All the good ones end before then, except perhaps Seinfeld.

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It's funny you say that, I'm not sure it's deliberate but in some ways it makes sense because her context has changed. When we first met her, it was so overwhelming, the whole situation. I think that as the series has progressed, she's much more settled there. We all had a mutual agreement and understanding that if we carried on much longer, it would have just started to drift and we would have begun to lose the tightness in the stories. It is at those moments that you go, “We should have ended when we were on top”. It’s an interesting way of dealing with our country’s history – even sometimes the difficult bits of history.

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They are trying to make a bit of time for each other. From the creators and stars of Horrible Histories, the hilarious sitcom is back this month with a fourth season. “But Ghosts is an antidote to the polarisation of the real world. It’s an example of living alongside people that you don’t agree with, and don’t necessarily always love having to interact with. I don’t feel like I’m playing a character.

BBC confirms a third series of the hit Death in Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise

” because that’s what we keep saying – “Why have we done this? ” I hope they feel that it's a rewarding tying up. We tried not to do what's expected. We wanted it to finish in a way that felt satisfying for the viewer, but also for the Ghosts, too.

“That’s all very well,” he tells me when, giggling, I recall this performance, “ but there’s more to me than laughs. I really want to do something serious. I want to play a man on a horse in a period drama.” In a puffy shirt? ” And then he cracks up at the thought of riding a horse in a puffy shirt. Kiell Smith-Bynoe can’t be serious for long. He watched his professional debut with his mates on his birthday in 2012.

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Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie on taking the lead role in You - Metro.co.uk

Ghosts star Charlotte Ritchie on taking the lead role in You.

Posted: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]

Movies Editor, Digital Spy  Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not. But in the meantime, I'm doing little projects and little, tiny things. But it's been nice to have a bit of break and be at home, and to have kind of normal hours for a bit.

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.

Ritchie was a contestant on series 11 of Taskmaster, which was broadcast on Channel 4 in March to May 2021.[12] She has since been a guest on several episodes of the official Taskmaster podcast. She stars alongside Tom Stourton in the BBC Three sitcom Siblings, which was first broadcast in summer 2014, and she appeared as a guest panellist in the same year on 8 Out of 10 Cats. Mary finds her voice and it's really nice, there are beautiful scenes from that era." Enter Upload scene-stealer Allegra Edwards, who plays a ghost with whom Pete connects during his trip to the Caribbean.

Yeah, probably, but broadly, I think I'm still pretty bad at it. It's a lovely feeling and, in a way, you wish you had a bit more time for that to happen. The reason it doesn't happen more is just because of the time pressure of getting through a million scenes. After every series, we get the outtakes from filming and as sad as it is to end, we're already looking forward to see the new ones as they're always a joy with nobody able to keep a straight face at all times. And that’s been something that people overwhelmingly do say to me. They tell me that they love the fact they can watch it with their kids.

I think there's a slight sense in the tone of what we always do. Mat puts this really well; there's a feeling that we're pulling down our beards, winking at people and going, “Look, it’s us! ” You get a sense of the amount of fun that we're having doing it. We’ve been so lucky to have such a loved show because obviously, we love making it but people have absolutely embraced it. That such a lovely thing in this day and age where people are so quick to criticise.

I want people to miss it and us, and therefore be excited when we come back with something new. What to Watch is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Ghosts has been one of the warmest and most consistent comedies of the last few years.

It was sad to say goodbye to something which has been so much fun. But at the same time, it's just been such an incredible thing to have done. Going into it, none of us had any idea that it would go on to become what it has. We’re all very un-alike as people. Six more un-alike people you couldn’t hope to find.

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.

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!

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.