Ghostwatch

For anyone not aware, Ghostwatch was a fictional, but portrayed as not fictional, BBC broadcast.

So it was in 1992 on Halloween.

And it was part of the BBC Screen One, which was sort of like basically sort of plays and...

Experimental dramas.

Experimental

dramas, yeah, and films and that kind of thing that the BBC made.

And it was basically portrayed as a sort of, a bit like Crime Watch... sort of like a programme where very well respected BBC presenters were investigating this haunting in a house in London and because they'd used very well respected BBC presenters A lot of people thought it was real at the time and it terrified a lot of people and has never been shown again and was only released on DVD sort of like 15 years later, something like that.

It was quite a while later.

I was only 10 at the time, so I didn't see it at the time.

I don't think I was even aware of it until sort of later on.

um carl you're the same age as me did you know about it or see at the time or anything

i did see it at the time but okay probably like a lot of people i hadn't watched it again for many many years and i did get the dvd when it came out yeah but for some but then i hadn't i think i only watched that once and then i didn't watch it again until getting ready for this

yeah

um and there's bits of it that i realize now that i've actually made up in my head happened um especially the ending right um that in my head i was like well that's not how i remember it ending at all um But it's been fascinating to watch it again.

I don't remember any of the furore at the time about it.

Because obviously I was only 10 years old as well.

But I do remember watching at least some of it when it went out live.

Because my dad especially would be like, let's watch this.

This could be good.

Yeah, see, at this point, my parents wouldn't have let me watch it.

So a few years later, basically they wouldn't let me watch horror films or anything like that until I got to high school and immediately got Silence of the Lambs and Carrie out of the school library.

And it was like, well, if you're going to read the book, you may as well watch the films.

So they were sort of fine with it from there.

My daughter is 10, and I wouldn't let her watch this film.

This would freak her out, but at the same time, I don't think she would understand the concept of it because she doesn't understand live TV anyway because she only watches streaming.

For anyone not aware, Ghostwatch was a fictional, but portrayed as not fictional, BBC broadcast.

So it was in 1992 on Halloween.

And it was part of the BBC Screen One, which was sort of like basically sort of plays and...

Experimental dramas.

Experimental

dramas, yeah, and films and that kind of thing that the BBC made.

And it was basically portrayed as a sort of, a bit like Crime Watch... sort of like a programme where very well respected BBC presenters were investigating this haunting in a house in London and because they'd used very well respected BBC presenters A lot of people thought it was real at the time and it terrified a lot of people and has never been shown again and was only released on DVD sort of like 15 years later, something like that.

It was quite a while later.

I was only 10 at the time, so I didn't see it at the time.

I don't think I was even aware of it until sort of later on.

um carl you're the same age as me did you know about it or see at the time or anything

i did see it at the time but okay probably like a lot of people i hadn't watched it again for many many years and i did get the dvd when it came out yeah but for some but then i hadn't i think i only watched that once and then i didn't watch it again until getting ready for this

yeah

um and there's bits of it that i realize now that i've actually made up in my head happened um especially the ending right um that in my head i was like well that's not how i remember it ending at all um But it's been fascinating to watch it again.

I don't remember any of the furore at the time about it.

Because obviously I was only 10 years old as well.

But I do remember watching at least some of it when it went out live.

Because my dad especially would be like, let's watch this.

This could be good.

Yeah, see, at this point, my parents wouldn't have let me watch it.

So a few years later, basically they wouldn't let me watch horror films or anything like that until I got to high school and immediately got Silence of the Lambs and Carrie out of the school library.

And it was like, well, if you're going to read the book, you may as well watch the films.

So they were sort of fine with it from there.

My daughter is 10, and I wouldn't let her watch this film.

This would freak her out, but at the same time, I don't think she would understand the concept of it because she doesn't understand live TV anyway because she only watches streaming.