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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House review – new levels of giddiness unleashed in spooky spin-off
Picking up not long after the events of the final episode of the BBC’s haunted house comedy, this glorious new film is every bit as warm and comforting as the TV sitcom What on earth is happening at Button House? Kitty has tasered a police officer. Fanny is pulling down her capacious Victorian drawers to show off her bottom. Robin the caveman has fallen in love with a crusty eco activist (to be fair she looks quite a bit like him). If you’ve never watched the BBC’s haunted house comedy Ghosts – one of the finest family television shows in recent memory – none of the above will make the slightest bit of sense. Neither perhaps will this glorious new film, which picks up with the ghosts not long after the events of the final episode in 2023 . Often when British sitcoms get a spin-off what happens is the gag-to-runtime ratio dips. But breaking out of the 30-minute episode structure seems to
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Picking up not long after the events of the final episode of the BBC’s haunted house comedy, this glorious new film is every bit as warm and comforting as the TV sitcom What on earth is happening at Button House? Kitty has tasered a police officer. Fanny is pulling down her capacious Victorian drawers to show off her bottom. Robin the caveman has fallen in love with a crusty eco activist (to be fair she looks quite a bit like him). If you’ve never watched the BBC’s haunted house comedy Ghosts – one of the finest family television shows in recent memory – none of the above will make the slightest bit of sense. Neither perhaps will this glorious new film, which picks up with the ghosts not long after the events of the final episode in 2023 . Often when British sitcoms get a spin-off what happens is the gag-to-runtime ratio dips. But breaking out of the 30-minute episode structure seems to
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Ghosts: The Possession of Button House review – new levels of giddiness unleashed in spooky spin-off, Picking up not long after the events of the final episode of the BBC’s haunted house comedy, this glorious new film is every bit as warm and comforting as the TV sitcom What on earth is happening at Button House? Kitty has tasered a police officer. Fanny is pulling down her capacious Victorian drawers to show off her bottom. Robin the caveman has fallen in love with a crusty eco activist (to be fair she looks quite a bit like him). If you’ve never watched the BBC’s haunted house comedy Ghosts – one of the finest family television shows in recent memory – none of the above will make the slightest bit of sense. Neither perhaps will this glorious new film, which picks up with the ghosts not long after the events of the final episode in 2023 . Often when British sitcoms get a spin-off what happens is the gag-to-runtime ratio dips. But breaking out of the 30-minute episode structure seems to
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