Table Of Content
- Ghosts is back! Where do we find Mike and Alison?
- The 'Ghosts' Christmas special sounds very festive. Are you pleased to be back?
- Filmography
- Meet the cast of Ghosts series 5
- BBC confirms a third series of the hit Death in Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise
- Charlotte Ritchie — things you didn’t know about the star
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.
Ghosts is back! Where do we find Mike and Alison?
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.
The 'Ghosts' Christmas special sounds very festive. Are you pleased to be back?
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.
Filmography
When we've been writing, we have discovered new relationships, and I think there's been quite a nice relationship developing between her and the Captain. When you split the characters from each other, you get to discover a bit more about each one. That’s important with Lady Button because it's easy to just go, “Oh God, I wish she'd shut up.” But actually, she's got quite a lot to say, and deep down she has a heart and empathy. It’s been a really nice thing to discover those moments. Because the show has been so well received.
I think it’s the right decision artistically to finish now. Also, we never wanted to be Last of the Summer Wine which did 32 series. I've never played a single character for that long or written a group of characters for that long. You become so attached emotionally to these imaginary people, but also to the real people who are the cast and crew around you. You’re thinking, “This has been this has been a privilege and a joy.” I’ll carry those joyful memories with me for the rest of my life.
Meet the cast of Ghosts series 5
Ghosts tells the story of a young couple, Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), who unexpectedly inherited a grand country estate only to find it is both falling apart and overrun with ghosts. “They are real team players, and that really shines through. “It’s very nicely tailored to everybody’s specific history. Also, of course, it’s still a comedy, and it’s not trying to be anything more than that.
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!
Queen of comedy Charlotte Ritchie on Ghosts: ‘It’s loving, uncynical – and people fall over’
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.
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.
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.
Now, Charlotte has updated What To Watch on how filming is proceeding. Ghosts series four is on its way and Charlotte is 'excited' for fans to see it. Broadcast networks aren’t in the habit of doing this, even if plenty of shows originated elsewhere before being remade for American audiences.
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Also, different countries can buy into their own history or their own culture. I love playing her so much because she's just so extreme. Mostly, the feedback I get is about her faces. I get a lot of people sending me pictures of them bending their faces. And I get a lot of catchphrases – like “Off the lawn! No, not specifically, but there’s absolutely no way that we won't work together again.
I really hope people don't feel let down by it. In fact, I am really proud of it, so I’ll remove the words “I think” from that sentence. I hope the audience love it as much as we do. It doesn't shy away from the theme of death, which I think most comedies probably do. But it still has a lot of characters with a great deal of heart, and so never feels like a heavy-handed tragedy.
It's not just the writers hoping that an actor will make their words come to life. As a writer-performers, they know exactly how a character should be, which I think makes the characters really well drawn. I could have done another series!
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