Be sure to lock your doors when you get home this Halloween, for a sinister, unearthly presence willing be walking the streets this All Hallow’s Eve.
We don’t mean actual ghosts, obviously, we’re talking about all those precocious costumed youths in shoddily applied face paint having the audacity to knock on your door demanding some of the multipack of snack-size sweets you got from Tesco on the way home from work. Bought them for trick-or-treaters? Pffft. Those Haribo were all for you, and you know it.
So embrace the darkness (and the sugar), draw the curtains, and shut out the world ready to scare yourself silly with these classic British TV ghost stories.
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)
A classic in the ghost story genre, this deeply atmospheric and unnerving production is Jonathan Miller’s adaptation of the 1904 M. R. James tale “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You,...
We don’t mean actual ghosts, obviously, we’re talking about all those precocious costumed youths in shoddily applied face paint having the audacity to knock on your door demanding some of the multipack of snack-size sweets you got from Tesco on the way home from work. Bought them for trick-or-treaters? Pffft. Those Haribo were all for you, and you know it.
So embrace the darkness (and the sugar), draw the curtains, and shut out the world ready to scare yourself silly with these classic British TV ghost stories.
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)
A classic in the ghost story genre, this deeply atmospheric and unnerving production is Jonathan Miller’s adaptation of the 1904 M. R. James tale “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You,...
- 10/16/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Matt Lucas stars as an oddball aristocrat in a trailer for Pompidou.
BBC Two's silent comedy stars Lucas as Pompidou, a penniless eccentric who lives in a caravan with his dog and butler after falling on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) stars opposite Lucas as Hove, Pompidou's loyal butler who finds himself involved in various hijinks.
Each week sees the duo faced with a new challenge, such as getting their hands on a priceless bowl and performing surgery.
The likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances throughout the six-part series.
The show was inspired by Lucas's love for classic silent comedy such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Mr Bean.
Pompidou will start on BBC Two on Sunday, March 1 at 6.30pm.
BBC Two's silent comedy stars Lucas as Pompidou, a penniless eccentric who lives in a caravan with his dog and butler after falling on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) stars opposite Lucas as Hove, Pompidou's loyal butler who finds himself involved in various hijinks.
Each week sees the duo faced with a new challenge, such as getting their hands on a priceless bowl and performing surgery.
The likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances throughout the six-part series.
The show was inspired by Lucas's love for classic silent comedy such as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Mr Bean.
Pompidou will start on BBC Two on Sunday, March 1 at 6.30pm.
- 2/22/2015
- Digital Spy
BBC One has revealed casting and a first image for Matt Lucas's new comedy series Pompidou.
The six-parter - now shooting for broadcast in 2015 - is inspired by Lucas's passion for classic silent comedy, such as the works of Charlie Chaplin.
Billed as a "visual comedy series", Pompidou will star the Little Britain comic as the title character - an elderly oddball aristocrat who has fallen on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) plays Hove - Pompidou's long-suffering butler - while the likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances.
"Matt has worked incredibly hard on creating a unique comedy universe for Pompidou," said Shane Allen, Controller of Comedy Commissioning for the BBC.
"Only someone of his immense talent and experience could achieve something that feels so modern and inventive which also has an underlying nod to past classic comedy masters like Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy.
The six-parter - now shooting for broadcast in 2015 - is inspired by Lucas's passion for classic silent comedy, such as the works of Charlie Chaplin.
Billed as a "visual comedy series", Pompidou will star the Little Britain comic as the title character - an elderly oddball aristocrat who has fallen on hard times.
Alex MacQueen (The Inbetweeners) plays Hove - Pompidou's long-suffering butler - while the likes of Bella Emberg, Roy Barraclough, Jane Asher and Tony Way will make cameo appearances.
"Matt has worked incredibly hard on creating a unique comedy universe for Pompidou," said Shane Allen, Controller of Comedy Commissioning for the BBC.
"Only someone of his immense talent and experience could achieve something that feels so modern and inventive which also has an underlying nod to past classic comedy masters like Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy.
- 6/17/2014
- Digital Spy
Former Coronation Street star Roy Barraclough has ruled out returning to the soap. The 78-year-old actor is keen to continue acting but doesn't want to reprise his role as Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in the soap. "You can't go back and recreate it, because it was a special time on the Street," Barraclough told What's on TV. "It (more)...
- 12/5/2012
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
Former Coronation Street actor Roy Barraclough has been announced as narrator for several dates of the soap's 50th anniversary play Corrie!. The star - who portrayed Alec Gilroy on the ITV series - will helm a number of shows for the six-month nationwide tour, joining previously-announced narrators Gaynor Faye and Ken Morley. "I made my very first appearance in Coronation Street in 1964, and made my last in 1998 so I've had a long association with the show, (more)...
- 1/24/2011
- by By Jennifer Still
- Digital Spy
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