I was reading about this today, the article said that he’s coming back, but that the producers are being mum about how and when.
We are thrilled to announce a fifth series of this modern British Comedy masterpiece. Ghosts continues to go from strength to strength and the BBC couldn’t be more grateful for the amount of laughter and love that the creators, and Monumental, pour into this unique show.
The hit comedy will start filming the new series in early 2023 and will once again be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
SPOILERS
Following the destruction of their B&B (and main income) in the gatehouse fire, Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) begin exploring other means of making ends meet and contemplate a new chapter that could have a huge effect on the Ghosts’ (after) lives.
htt ps://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2022/ghosts-series-5-confirmed
I don’t even remember the headless character from the US series.
Jurassic Park is also almost based on a true story, because somebody once bought an island. And, of course, Life (uh) finds a way.
Modnote: Please avoid spoilers. If you read this thread at all, you would be well aware of the fact that US Fans haven’t seen season 4 yet.
Oops, sorry.
The 2022 Christmas special is really good too.
There us no “they”. Neanderthals are “us”. People (in general) really need to stop thinking about them as some “other”. It is like calling your mother’s father’s family “they”.
Only the US fans bothered by things like “broadcast rights” and “copyright violation”. Other US fans see everything that they want to see just fine…
Only seen in the pilot episode, IIRC.
He’s been in a couple others as well - most notably the one where Thorfin and Flower try to find a third.
Wow, you’re reading a lot into a simple pronoun. One that I didn’t even use, by the way. There’s nothing wrong with using ‘they’: “my mother’s father’s family is from Scotland and Wales. They emigrated to America when my mother was 13.”
Thanks for the tip that the British series is on HBO, I hadn’t realized that.
I’ve only watched part of the first season, but I don’t get any sense that Robin is a Neanderthal or anything other than a pre-historic modern human. Perhaps a similar age to Ötzi, which is only 5300 years or so. Later plot points might say he is something else, but even 10-20,000 years old is still just a pre-historic modern human.
I think it’s great that you guys are taking a geek culture approach to this. Grant the premise that we’re in this world where ghosts exist… but then every other aspect of what happens and who people are must be scientifically accurate and consistent.
I am not familiar with that description of it before but I like and and heartily endorse the mindset.
Really I think that is how fantastical fiction works best. Change a basic assumption but then stay true to that reality based on ours otherwise. The show works better with the details of the stories of the Plague Pit ghosts being historically plausible than not.
Of course. I’ll readily accept the premise that the show takes place in a scientific world just like ours, except that ghosts exist, and if somebody goes “clinically dead” for a few seconds, then they can see them. If it was a world with ever changing rules, where established laws about the way things work changed to accommodate the plot, then it wouldn’t be a sitcom about ghosts, it would be Star Trek or Dr. Who.
I think the disconnect between what the ghosts understand about what has taken place since they died, and what they don’t, is deliberately inconsistent, but also a source of humor. Like the scullery maid mentioned ago who seemed to understand the complexities of television filming. I’m reminded of a scene in the US version where Isaac (Revolutionary War ghost) was complaining that America and Britain were sworn enemies. Sam then explained to him about how the two countries are closest allies, and the “Special Relationship.” Then Sam explained she learned it in a movie, and Isaac was like, “there we are,” dismissively. So he knew about movies but not about US-British diplomacy. Alberta or Flower or Pete or Tervor could have explained this to him.
In the British version, the Captain didn’t know who the monarch was, even though Pat or Julian could have told him. If the Captain (is his name ever revealed?) had died during WWII, then he’d have known that Princess Elizabeth was the Heir Apparent to King George VI, who was King at that time.
That’s a running joke.
I said people in general, as in I wasn’t singling you out, I was springboarding off a pet peeve. If someone has around 3% Neanderthal DNA, that is the equivalent of having a great-great-great-grandparent that is full-blooded Neanderthal, so the equivalent of 100-150 years ago. There weren’t just a few incidents of human-Neanderthal mating, it happeded a lot.
I get the sense by looking at him. He is wearing facial prosthetics specificly to not look like a modern human:
I like playing big, ridiculous characters and I have always been fascinated by special effects and prosthetic make-up which is lucky because the other guys have been very open in saying they would not enjoy having to put on Robin’s make-up every day. Complete costume and make up for Robin takes about two and a half hours to put on and about 45 minutes to get it all off. The most it has ever taken is four hours. There are many different elements involved; there are a couple of prosthetic pieces and then some more traditional make-up techniques are used as well.
Just watched the first episode of season 2, and the facial prosthetics are now pretty obvious. I mean, not that the makeup is poorly done, but that now I see there is a protruding brow line, and such. I don’t know if it was lighting, hair blocking the face, lack of closeups, etc, but I really didn’t see it in the first season.
For the first season I’d have said Robin’s makeup was just the wispy and unkept beard, and the actor squinting a lot.