BBC iPlayer sets new festive record - with drama box sets and Christmas specials driving best festive week and best festive day viewing ever". The judging panel consisted of Geoff Bradley (non-voting Chair), Lyn Brown MP (a committee member on the London Libraries service), Frances Gray (an academic who writes about and teaches courses on modern crime fiction), Heather O'Donoghue (academic, linguist, crime fiction reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement, and keen reader of all crime fiction) and Barry Forshaw (reviewer and editor of Crime Time magazine). Emma Sidi as Eleanor Higham - Kitty’s abusive adoptive sister. She only regrets her unkindness when Kitty is dying of a poisonous spider bite. Her descendants includes Isabelle, Fanny, Heather and Alison. An idealised version of Eleanor as remembered by Kitty is played by Charlotte Ritchie.

Initially believing the ghosts to be an after-effect of her accident, Alison eventually accepts the truth and confronts them. Because the Coopers cannot leave for financial reasons, and the ghosts are bound to the mansion's land until they can ascend into the afterlife, both sides eventually agree that they have to coexist as best they can. Meanwhile, the house requires a lot of work, and Alison and Mike devise several schemes to assist their perilous finances. [4] Cast [ edit ] Characters [ edit ] Character Lolly Adefope as Katherine 'Kitty' Higham – An excitable, overly chummy, naïve Georgian noblewoman who wishes to be friends with everyone. She has repressed her unhappy memories of her adoptive family, particularly those of her sister. She died from the bite of a venomous spider concealed on an imported pineapple in 1780.a b "The writer-stars of Horrible Histories and Yonderland reunite for a comedy about a group of ghosts who haunt a country mansion". BBC Media Centre. 9 April 2019. Jennifer Saunders as Lavinia Colebrooke – Fanny's mother, who determinedly planned to marry off her daughter. [11] a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x "Ghosts – Episode guide". BBC One. Choose appropriate episode . Retrieved 2 May 2019. Burial of Ghosts is a tense, twisty tale that introduces us to Lizzie Bartholomew, a young social worker who, after experiencing a tragic incident at work, takes a leave of absence to Morocco, where she indulges in some rest, relaxation and a one-night stand with an older man she believes she will never see or hear from again only to return from vacation to find a letter from his solicitor informing her that Philip has died and has left her a sizeable inheritance linked to a stipulated request that will ultimately turn her life upside down, make her a possible suspect in a grizzly murder, and will cause her own secrets from the past to rear their ugly heads.

Alison tells off the ghosts for their recent behaviour, so they try to work out how to apologise to her. After encouraging Alison to take a break from the ghosts and managing the bed and breakfast, Mike attempts to organise a tightly scheduled day off for her. Although the ghosts attempt to sing Alison a Band Aid-inspired apology song, she vents her frustration about how they demand a lot of her without ever thanking her; the ghosts then post a fake five-star review in recognition of what she does for them. The story follows Lizzie who has a troubled past, from being abandoned at a church as a newborn, growing up in care through to an incident in her work life she’d rather leave in the past. Hogan, Michael (6 October 2023). "Ghosts, BBC One, season 5, review: proof that the late Queen had excellent taste in television". The Telegraph . Retrieved 7 October 2023.Another series of Ghosts is on the way to BBC One and BBC iPlayer in 2023". BBC Media Centre. BBC. 15 December 2022. While I found the start of this book a little slow compared to the other Ann Cleeves books I have read once I got into it I wanted to keep reading and found myself saying just one more chapter. In April 2021, the sitcom was nominated for the Scripted Comedy BAFTA Award and the Comedy Writer BAFTA Craft Award. [44] Named after the Church yard she was found in and with a Christian name taken from the dog that sniffed her out at said church, you can’t help but have your heartstrings tugged at the way kids are dealt with within the Care System.

Nelson, Alex (15 April 2019). "Ghosts: cast, when it's on BBC One tonight and all you need to know about the comedy from the Horrible Histories team". i News. Geoff McGivern as Barclay Beg-Chetwynde – Alison and Mike's neighbour with whom they have a land dispute over Button House's access road. He always gets Alison's name wrong, calling her 'Annabel'. Mike tries to convince Alison that her seeing and hearing the ghosts are after-effects of her coma. The ghosts embark on a war of attrition to try to force the couple out. With the ghosts becoming more intense, Alison visits a doctor who proves that she really can both see and hear them, being a ghost himself. Convinced they should sell the house, Mike finds out he cannot get out of the loan they took out to renovate the house without losing all of their savings. Alison attempts to reason with the ghosts, and they tell her that they want her and Mike to move out, but she refuses and tells them that she will do something for each one so that they can all co-exist peacefully. Mike comes to accept the ghosts' existences when he witnesses Julian press a keyboard key on his laptop, which appears to him as a key moving on its own, and follows the basement Plague ghosts' instructions via Alison to repair the broken heating system. Having run out of capital and enthusiasm for restoring Button House themselves, Alison and Mike are ecstatic to receive an offer from a luxury hotel chain. The ghosts would prefer the couple to stay, and are disappointed when they agree to sell. The couple looks for a house to buy, but Alison rejects the two which an estate agent shows them after seeing other ghosts haunting them. Eventually, she approves of a brand new building. Fanny offers a priceless jewel to Alison to solve Button House's money problems, but Alison discovers that Fanny's husband already sold it. The Captain devises a plan to get Alison and Mike to tell the hotel chain to survey the basement as a potential place for a swimming pool and spa. During the survey, builders uncover a plague pit in the basement, and the hotel chain withdraws its offer.

Holli Dempsey as Isabelle Higham – The daughter and later owner of Button (previously Higham) House who was in a relationship with Thomas before he died, but then married his cousin Francis, and whose descendants would inherit and live in Button House (including Alison, Fanny and Heather Button). She was descended from Kitty's sister, Eleanor. A classic psychological thriller, available for the first time in Canada, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Shetland, Vera Stanhope, and Two Rivers series, Ann Cleeves. However, it does tell a decent story and provides a lot of interesting insights around the different types of characters that crop up in the English countryside and small-town England. There is a theme of lost identity throughout the book. The main protagonist, Lizze Bartholomew, is a foundling who never knew her parents, as well as a former social worker, and the young man whose murder she seeks to solve grew up with his biological father's identity being concealed from him by his mother.

Rufus Wright as Lord Bummenbach - A visiting Lord who brings a pineapple to the lunch Kitty and Eleanor’s father is hosting, on the day Kitty died, as a gift. a b c Butter, Susannah (15 April 2019). "Ghosts: Things that go bump in the night – a spooktacular house-hunting show". Evening Standard. A special 7-minute-long episode for Comic Relief, broadcast on 17 March 2023, guest starring Kylie Minogue [35] with a cameo appearance from Jason Donovan. Minogue had been due to appear in the sketch in 2022, but that appearance was cancelled due to her contracting COVID-19. [36] No.

Ausiello, Michael (12 January 2023). " Ghosts Scares Up Early Season 3 Renewal at CBS". TVLine . Retrieved 31 May 2023.