Everyone will have their favourites, but I have a soft spot for Laurence Rickard as Robin the Caveman, whose pronunciation of “ticket” leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Photograph: Steven Peskett/BBC/Monumental Television. It is one of the least demanding sitcoms on television – and one of the most charming.
They made the decision not to use supporting artists in the last scenes filmed, set in a Medieval plague village. DuckTales Season 3 Episode 13 Review: Escape from the ImpossiBin! “The burning question for fans of the show is how the characters died, and you will find out some in each series,” says Baynton. There’s a Christmas special episode to come, “the last one ever to be filmed!” joked Farnaby at the press launch. Now that the characters are established and the tone has been taken to heart, the team could afford to experiment a little more. @Louisa_Mellor, Louisa Mellor is the Den of Geek UK TV Editor. Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this limited series based on the novel. “There is something deeply relatable about it, which is where sitcom will always thrive. I find myself bored during the show and wondering how much more time is left on the show. A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father. What’s their secret? The wonderfully barmy Ghosts (BBC One) is back for a second series, and it remains a riot of high-energy slapstick and silliness. When a photographer arrives to take some promotional shots of the building (“If you could avoid the bad bits,” pleads Alison. “We only really fight for our opinion, we never fight each other.” On the rare occasion that there isn’t unanimity about a particular topic, there might be a locking of horns and a democratic vote, but real arguments don’t happen. Julian will do some poltergeisty tricks, but only if he gets something in return. Ordinarily a new series would start with two weeks of the gang together in the same room. Considering the well-documented fallings-out and imploding egos of other comedy gangs – the Pythons not least among them – this level of harmony over such a long period feels remarkable.

We’ve definitely had fun. The series follows a collection of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants. Howick compares the composition of the group to Blackadder Goes Forth, which kept “ranks of characters from different classes stuck together in a hell hole, cheating death every single week.”, The source of much of the comedy is thwarted status, says Baynton, “It’s the stuff of Alan Partridge and Hyacinth Bucket and Basil Fawlty… people who see themselves a certain way but who aren’t that way to the audience. 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.

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.
“In that way that The Simpsons or those long-running American things, you can suddenly do one in black and white, as if it’s a Hitchcock thing. However, the inheritance came with some hitchhikers, in the form of the restless spirits of many of the house’s previous inhabitants.