Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains DVD – NOW AVAILABLE". Lawmanproductions.co.uk. 31 October 2012 . Retrieved 31 October 2017. I don't have the limited edition...I wish I did! But I have the normal Blu Ray with the latest documentary (which is excellent). The doc features most of the cast and crew reflections (except for Mike Smith of course who passed relatively young age) but the only regret is Parky is not included which is real shame because he was the star, and despite having no acting experience, he was brilliant because, he simply played himself as if he is doing an actual Ghostwatch show. But playing yourself, is not an easy thing to do! The director cleverly, gave Parky room and flexibility to do his thing with just basic guidelines. And boy, did he deliver, giving a performance of skepticism and good ol' Parky mannerisms that we all grew up with. He was brilliant. So was Sarah Greene, who gave, imho, the most outstanding performance out of all of them, including the experienced actors, but turns out she actually did drama school when she was younger so that explains her excellence. years later and “the cat now being out of the bag” about it, as well as a proliferation of found footage/live streamed/homemade horrors vying for our attention, does Ghostwatch still manage to entertain, especially during the “spooky season”. The premise of the thing is pretty sneaky - take a handful of recognizable and respected British news personalities such as Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith and Craig Charles (all playing themselves), set some of them up in the studio and send a team out to a haunted house to investigate the supposed hauntings that occur there on a regular basis. Broadcast the entire thing over live TV and unleash some extremely frightening imagery onto an unsuspecting and surprisingly gullible populace and voila, you’ve got yourself a bit of a horror classic.

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What if Raymond Tunstall really did get into the machine – all our machines? Because he’s here now. On my screen, at home with me, where only I seem to see him. Sir Michael Parkinson talks about Ghostwatch". Archived from the original on 10 July 2009 . Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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On 31 October 2011, the first official production still was uploaded to mark both Hallowe'en Night and the conclusion of National Séance 2011. The image features cast members, Sarah Greene and Mike Smith sitting with an interviewer, and two additional crew members, in an aircraft hangar. A quote beneath the picture reads, "Stay tuned for 2012, Ghostwatchers". [30] Limited Edition Booklet: Includes 'Extra Sensory Perception Management' by Sarah Appleton, 'Ghostwatch - As it Happened' by Tim Murray and short story '31/10&' by Ghostwatch writer Stephen Volk

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While never troubling the likes of Freddy or Jason as horror icons, “Pipes” become an iconic ghostly figure in the UK after the screening of Ghostwatch, as it seemed most everyone was talking about it for a long time afterwards. People still split between whether what they had witnessed was real or not, which is testament to the hard work and planning that went into putting everything together in as convincing way as possible. Ghostwatch has never been repeated on UK television. It has been repeated internationally, on stations such as the Canadian digital channel Scream for Halloween 2004, and the Belgian channel Canvas in 2008. From 2017 to 2019, Ghostwatch was available on the American streaming video service Shudder, [3] [4] and was made available on the Internet Archive in 2017. There have been three UK home video releases. In 2002, the British Film Institute released a 10th Anniversary edition on VHS and DVD, and 101 Films issued a DVD release in 2011 and a 30th Anniversary Blu-ray release in 2022. In 2016, BBC Store made the film available as part of the Frightmares collection, marking Halloween. The great Michael Parkinson is the glue that holds everything together, his gravitas keeping the viewers enthralled as a family invite a live television crew into their home to try and capture the ghostly goings-on that have been upsetting the 2 young daughters. Four respected presenters and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind 'The most haunted house in Britain'.Ghostwatch’s ‘writer’, Stephen Volk, published a follow-up account, titled 31/10. In it, he wrote an alternative depiction about what had happened that night – that Sarah Greene and Susan Early were truly never seen again. That a lookalike had played the children’s TV presenter during her shows in the aftermath. That the surviving members of the Early family were secretively moved abroad. That the BBC studio was sealed off and boarded up. The programme has yet to be repeated in full on any UK-based television channel, following its initial broadcast.