A new TV ghost series for a major network filmed in York last night, hosted by This Country stars Charlie and Daisy May Cooper.
The pair were seen filming at the Duke of York pub and Drake’s Fish and Chip shop, with producers having to ask the resident ghost for permission to film (we were informed that they got it).
The pair, who based BBC Three comedy This Country on a failed film script, have already been to locations across the country including in Wales and Scotland.
Ms Cooper has previous experience with the paranormal side of life. In her autobiography Hexy Bitch: Tales from My Life, the Afterlife, and Beyond released last year, she writes “Whenever I was caught nicking sweets from the downstairs cupboard and stashing them behind my bed, Mum warned: ‘I can’t always see what you’re up to, Daisy, but Granny Bertie can.’”
Similarly, Mr Cooper said in a BBC Radio 4 interview: “My grandad was quite a serious man, fairly humourless; he was a doctor, so reliable. And he said one night he looked out the window and he saw a figure of a man, a peasant type (classic ghost), with a pickaxe on his shoulder, and he walked down the alleyway and disappeared into the end wall.”
Ms Cooper has since appeared as a contestant on The Masked Singer and as a panellist on the ITV game show Password last year.
Mr Cooper hosted a BBC iPlayer series last year exploring British myths, legends and folk stories. The show is as yet untitled, and is scheduled to be aired soon.