High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman
2005
📺 1 Season
🎬 8 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Comedy
High Spirits with Shirley Ghostman is a British television comedy show broadcast on BBC Three
It features character comedian Marc Wootton playing an effete and slightly vicious fake medium/psychic. It is narrated by Patrick Stewart, with animated sequences by Rex Crowle produced by onedotzero.
The character of Shirley Ghostman is sometimes considered to be a parody of the supposed act of controversial psychic, Derek Acorah and contains actual satirical references to the television show 6ixth Sense with Colin Fry in Shirley's opening speech to the audience.
The show was very successful on BBC Three and was set to move to BBC Two in the summer of 2005.
Seasons
Season 1
Shirley visits the vets and informs several pet owners what their animal's grievances are.
It's the first heat of Spirit Academy. Ripping off the Pop Idol auditions format, Shirley searches for the UK's next psychic superstar.
The Paranormalists: Shirley's apprentice Ian Jackson (Marc playing another character) learns about Rumpology - the ability to predict the future whilst looking at someone's bum.
The other side of Shirley Ghostman: A short and rare insight into the personal life of the psychic. Whilst having a manicure Shirley explains how he became a medium and how Sheba became his spirit guide. He also advises a woman not to let her friends marry as he senses a lot of negativity.
Shirley channels Princess Diana. She reveals her feelings on her death and the people she left behind when she passed on.
A is for afterlife as we learn about the psychic A - Z.
Shirley finishes his first show by singing a song by Roy Orbison who channelled it through him the previous week. It's entitle
Crew
Writer
Paul Garner, Liam Woodman
Producer
Jamie Glazebrook
Network
BBC Three
Keywords
supernaturalsatireparody