\u201c[The pilot was an opportunity to] make some mistakes and learn from them,\u201d he said. \u201cWe made a sort of taster. It was like a third of a pilot or something, and it taught us a huge amount.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to discuss one of the key changes that they made after shooting that episode: \u201cWe were going to have a house that was so endless, you would discover new ghosts every week.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the pilot, Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) can see the ghosts while Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) can\u2019t, interpreting her stunned expression as panic induced by the size of the renovation project they\u2019ve taken on, which is how it plays out in season 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the taster tape, we locked off [the camera] and [appeared as] eight ghosts, went and got changed, [then filmed as] eight more, then went and got changed [again],\u201d said Baynton of the \u201cballroom full of ghosts\u201d effect that they were going for.<\/p>\n
But when the team eventually sat down to look at what they\u2019d created, they immediately knew that something was amiss.<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\u201c[Ghosts] is about people who are stuck together with people they can\u2019t get on with,\u201d he added. \u201cIf there are 100 ghosts, they can all just find some friends and avoid the ones they don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Executive producer Alison Carpenter also revealed that \u201cHumphrey was originally going to be a bigger character than Robin\u201d, who are both played by Laurence Rickard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was becoming apparent that, actually, Robin was going to be a really, really funny character, and much more unusual,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cSo I think that was the other thing that we discovered through the pilot, to make Robin more of a key character. We had the luxury of not being stuck with anything.\u201d<\/p>
Ghosts season 4 will air later this year, while seasons 1-3 are available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>. Check out more of our\u00a0Comedy<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a>\u00a0with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Abby Robinson Published: Saturday, 03 September 2022 at 12:00 am One of the co-creators and stars of BBC comedy Ghosts has revealed that the original pilot of the show was kept under lock and key. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Mathew Baynton explained that when they were initially offered a broadcast slot, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21369,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air.jpg",2000,1335,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air-768x513.jpg",768,513,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air-1024x684.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air-1536x1025.jpg",1536,1025,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/09\/ghosts-team-reveal-why-original-pilot-episode-didnt-air.jpg",2000,1335,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Abby Robinson Published: Saturday, 03 September 2022 at 12:00 am One of the co-creators and stars of BBC comedy Ghosts has revealed that the original pilot of the show was kept under lock and key. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Mathew Baynton explained that when they were initially offered a broadcast slot, the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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