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November 29, 2008

Congratulations, Ghostwatch fans! By an impressive 51% of all votes taken, you have chosen this moment as being the most frightening glimpse of spook, Mr. Pipes...

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Where's Pipes?

January 01, 2009

Happy New Year, Ghostwatchers! By far the most asked question that comes the way of the blog concerns the mysterious, fleeting appearances from our notoriously elusive poltergeist, Pipes... Villainous spectre, Mr. Pipes makes an undisclosed number of physical appearances in GHOSTWATCH, currently thought to be as many as "13" [minus Cherise Wesson's sketch seen at 00:19:00]. Online rumours of another fabled sighting at 01:16:18 were later debunked by director, Lesley Manning [see below]. Irrefutable proof, or just 'faces in the fire'? Decide for yourself... TIME-CODES : Due to the re-inclusion of the Screen One 'Boulder' ident in the 2011 DVD release, the following figures are divided into BFI & 101 Films issues. 01. Earlys' Patio: 00:06:00 / 00:06:18 02. Haunted Bedroom #1: 00:21:00 / 00:21:18 [2A. Newspaper clipping (unconfirmed): 00:25:19 / 00:25:39 ] 03. The Voice: 00:30:30 / 00:30:50 04. Outside ...

We're still getting calls about that shadowy figure...

December 06, 2016

Greetings, Ghostwatchers! Almost twenty-five years on, and it seems that Mr. Pipes still delights in tormenting his audience with further, potential hidden appearances. So much so, in fact, that one Ghostwatcher in particular - James Syrett , recently got in touch, to suggest a few new possible sightings of his very own... Before we start, it's worth noting that Dr. Lin Pascoe's eloquently logical notion of 'Faces in the Fire', remains something of a much-loved mantra, around these parts. We know that there are definitely eight confirmed sightings of the notoriously-bashful Raymond Tunstall, one debunked, and perhaps as many as five more left to track down, in total. It's also worth a mention that although the golden figure of "Thirteen" appearances is posited during the doc, the actual final tally could well have reduced/increased, during the exhaustive edit of the original film.

"Ghost Watch" - The Original Series Outline

October 26, 2020

Greetings, Ghostwatchers! To mark the upcoming, special anniversary edition of National Séance, writer-creator, Stephen Volk has very kindly shared his original Series Outline for Ghostwatch [sorry, better make that, "Ghost Watch" ] to check out, and it's a fascinating, if inescapably eerie read. Not only that, but Stephen has kindly written a few words to accompany the pages, below... So this, arguably the distilled concept for the first iteration of the programme – then envisioned as a five-part serial – largely came about due to the then-soaring response to Martin Campbell & Troy Kennedy Martin's seminal 1985 eco-thriller, Edge of Darkness. Famously, Stephen's agent suggested to him at the time that the BBC might be receptive to a 'darker' mode of storytelling, and this is what he produced.

National Séance Live – The Tenth Annual Event

October 02, 2020

Greetings, Ghostwatchers! On Saturday, 31st October 2020, the annual Behind the Curtains Tweet-cast, National Séance will have been haunting, cheese'n pickling, and otherwise glory-holing your Twitter feeds for no less than a decade. How time flies, even when your watch stops. We've all heard the same captivating anniversary speech a thousand times before, but when I first imagined the idea of a virtual 'repeat' of Ghostwatch in 2010 as potentially being a fun way to celebrate Hallowe'en, and the programme's eighteenth birthday, alongside some like-minded fans, I had no idea it would become a kind-of phenomenon in its own right.

National Séance 2023

October 31, 2023

Greetings, Ghostwatchers! Happy Hallowe'en, and here's hoping you all enjoy National Séance later on this evening at 21:25 sharp. Or, should I say 21:28? Yes, for the first time in thirteen years, our annual live event shall commence a full three minutes later than expected following a truly remarkable discovery made by Ceefax Sleuth, Jason Robertson (better known as The Teletext Archeologist ) who, from two off-air recordings kindly donated for the upcoming 'On The Night' Blu-ray from Lawman Productions, has deftly extracted the precise time-code that marks exactly when Ghostwatch aired. Within micro moments of posting this news online, verification came via Paul Hayes on X, care of the programme's PasB. It seems as though, despite being listed for broadcast at 21:25, and its runtime being one hour, 30 minutes and 55 seconds long, apoximately 3 minutes each side were taken up by a combination of News and Sport beforehand, or bumpers leading up to Match of the ...

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