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We all agreed that with anything that goes beyond five series, there's a real danger that it might outstay its welcome. We wanted to be ahead of the curve as far as any kind of waning is concerned. Not many sitcoms can survive more than five series at a particular level. When you get into a writers’ room, I think it's very obvious when ideas start to thin out or you start to recycle old stories with new characters.
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I think that’s lovely that they’ve done that. David started out as a writer for TV Times before becoming the title's deputy features editor and then features editor. During his time on TV Times, David also helped run the annual TV Times Awards. David is a huge Death in Paradise fan, although he's still failed to solve a case before the show's detective! He also loves James Bond and controversially thinks that Timothy Dalton was an excellent 007.
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"And I think, in a kind of selfish way, I always loved getting to play Alison because she existed in a separate world... The scene followed a hysterical episode of April Fools' pranks, causing deceased scoutmaster Pat (Jim Howick) to be sceptical of the announcement – that is, until Alison pointed out that midday had passed. Ghosts follows the married couple Alison (Ritchie) and Mike Cooper as they renovate a crumbling house inherited by Alison. As well as all things soap-related, Claire also loves running, spa breaks, days out with her kids, and getting lost in a good book.
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” It's really good to do it at that point. But also, I feel like five series is a blessing. It's not often you get to the fifth series in a British sitcom. We only got three with Stath Lets Flats.
But the surprisingly compassionate reaction of stern Edwardian spook Lady Button (Martha Howe-Douglas) reveals more about her early life with her formidable mother Lavinia, played by guest star Jennifer Saunders. If you just can't wait to find out what happens next, all episodes of Ghosts season 5 are now streaming on BBC iPlayer. The series will ultimately conclude with a surprise Christmas special later this year.
Charlotte Ritchie is as sad as you are that Ghosts is ending
For the last three series, we've always done it in January. It’s really nice as an actor, of course, to have that stability, to know that you're starting the year with a big show with people that you still like and it's going to be a lot of fun. Definitely, especially if you’re in a scene with Jim Howick.
There is something quite rich about the idea of people with very different lives and very different viewpoints being stuck together. That felt very contemporary in terms of how heated conversations are between people with different standpoints. If people inhabit a space together, and look in each other's eyes, they can try their best to maintain a hardness towards each other, but some of that softens and breaks down because we're all people in the end.
AI is terrifying, and it has all sorts of problems, but this technology stuff can really work. Deepfakes can be great if you're trying to do a reunion Christmas special of Ghosts in 20 years' time. But this one has allowed us to be a bit softer about it, a bit more attached. We see a lot of the same crew come back, and we stay in touch with them and that's been really special. But it's quite good to get a contrast, because then you understand how unusual that is. Normally, if you've got a good year of work, you're meeting hundreds of different people, and going to new places, and making new friends, and then not seeing them for months and months.
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I think that her and Mike have got into a bit of a routine with how it works with the ghosts. I think also she's sort of adopted an extended family, and I think the unconditional presence of them must have a steadying effect. Perhaps we have to accept that Ghosts is dead.
There are bigger storylines here, as life changes for Alison and Mike, and decisions must be made about the future of the ever-crumbling Button House. We rarely get to see stories on TV about people struggling financially, in any ordinary sense. Most fictional characters seem to live in pristine Victorian semis with vast kitchen extensions, no matter whether they are an investment banker or a teaching assistant. And if they are evidently strapped for cash, it’s usually because they’ve gambled their lives away or rejected their former life as a gangland boss.
We wanted viewers to feel that all’s well with the characters, and we didn't want to do it in a trite way. We didn't want to do the obvious. We always get people pitching to us – “You know what you should do? ” The number of people who've gone, “Mike should see the Ghosts, too.” You think you want that.
Luckily, the show has so much going on that we can still continue, and there's so much to get through. “I think that phrase is from Succession, but I’m sure I coined it first! In some ways, it’s cathartic to say, “OK, that’s it.
It's really nice to have that many episodes and have those many stories told and get to be as silly as we did for that long. Despite it being the final one, I think this series has some of the best episodes that we've made. I think it's really consistently got better. I do forget every time we go back in January.
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