Warning: contains spoilers for both shows
Ghosts (UK) has just finished its fourth series on BBC One, and Ghosts (US), the American adaptation, is a few episodes in to its second season on CBS. Both series offer a mix of dry humour, black comedy, and real warmth in their characters. Both shows can make you laugh and cry within the space of a few minutes as they swing from comedy to tragedy and back again. But there are a fair few differences between the two that remind us of some of our differences in both the history of the two countries, and the humour.
The original British show is written by and stars the sketch comedy team behind the children’s television classic Horrible Histories. The team’s passion for history is clear throughout the show and the selection of ghosts from various historical periods who could possibly have died...
Ghosts (UK) has just finished its fourth series on BBC One, and Ghosts (US), the American adaptation, is a few episodes in to its second season on CBS. Both series offer a mix of dry humour, black comedy, and real warmth in their characters. Both shows can make you laugh and cry within the space of a few minutes as they swing from comedy to tragedy and back again. But there are a fair few differences between the two that remind us of some of our differences in both the history of the two countries, and the humour.
The original British show is written by and stars the sketch comedy team behind the children’s television classic Horrible Histories. The team’s passion for history is clear throughout the show and the selection of ghosts from various historical periods who could possibly have died...
- 11/3/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Nearly 10,000 National Institutes of Health (Nih) employees received a voicemail last week from Emmy Award–winning star of FX’s American Horror Story James Cromwell, who delivered a message on PETA’s behalf.
“An ‘American horror story’ is taking place in your agency right now,” he said in the message. “Your colleague Elisabeth Murray is receiving millions of dollars to torture and experiment on living monkeys.”
He goes on to explain that Murray carves out sections of their skulls, injects their brains with toxins to cause permanent brain damage, then locks them in cages and terrifies them with rubber snakes and spiders. She drills holes and screws posts into the monkeys’ skulls — and after years of torture, she kills and dissects them.
“Across the country, we’re losing loved ones to the pandemic—a vaccine and effective treatments are desperately needed—and this is how the Nih funnels its money?...
“An ‘American horror story’ is taking place in your agency right now,” he said in the message. “Your colleague Elisabeth Murray is receiving millions of dollars to torture and experiment on living monkeys.”
He goes on to explain that Murray carves out sections of their skulls, injects their brains with toxins to cause permanent brain damage, then locks them in cages and terrifies them with rubber snakes and spiders. She drills holes and screws posts into the monkeys’ skulls — and after years of torture, she kills and dissects them.
“Across the country, we’re losing loved ones to the pandemic—a vaccine and effective treatments are desperately needed—and this is how the Nih funnels its money?...
- 8/31/2020
- Look to the Stars
‘American Horror Story’ star, James Cromwell recorded a cautionary voicemail that was sent today to nearly 10,000 National Institutes of Health (Nih) employees. In his message, he warned them about the terrifying atrocities that are being committed by one of their associates, Elisabeth Murray. The alum of the acclaimed FX horror anthology television series won […]
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- 8/26/2020
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
“New rule: Stop torturing monkeys. You heard me,” begins Bill Maher in a new PETA video, shot amid the Covid-19 pandemic, that takes aim at government-funded “psychology experiments” on monkeys.
“For the last 13 years, the National Institutes of Health (Nih) has given $36 million — that’s taxpayer money — to Elisabeth Murray, an experimenter who spends her days sawing open monkeys’ skulls and pumping their brains with toxins,” he explains. “Then, she throws the monkeys in a small black box and scares them shitless with fake snakes and spiders. When she’s done, she kills them or recycles them into other experiments.”
Murray’s tests purport to help mental health — “If that sounds like bullshit, it’s because it is,” says Maher — but have never led to the development of a single treatment for humans. Maher goes on to say, “That’s what our government has been doing instead of preparing for...
“For the last 13 years, the National Institutes of Health (Nih) has given $36 million — that’s taxpayer money — to Elisabeth Murray, an experimenter who spends her days sawing open monkeys’ skulls and pumping their brains with toxins,” he explains. “Then, she throws the monkeys in a small black box and scares them shitless with fake snakes and spiders. When she’s done, she kills them or recycles them into other experiments.”
Murray’s tests purport to help mental health — “If that sounds like bullshit, it’s because it is,” says Maher — but have never led to the development of a single treatment for humans. Maher goes on to say, “That’s what our government has been doing instead of preparing for...
- 6/8/2020
- Look to the Stars
Exclusive: Another longtime senior Nickelodeon executive is departing the Viacom network, which has been revamping its programming team under new president Brian Robbins.
I have learned that Shelly Sumpter Gillyard, Evp Talent, Music and Events and a 19-year Nickelodeon veteran, has left the cable network. I hear a replacement will be named shortly.
She joins Elizabeth Murray, who recently stepped down as Evp Programming and Content Strategy. She was replaced last week by former Disney Channels Worldwide exec Paul DeBenedittis.
Since he took over Nickelodeon in October, succeeding Cyma Zarghami, Robbins also brought in longtime close associate Shauna Phelan in the newly created position of Svp Live-Action Scripted Content, and Oscar-nominated producer Ramsey Naito as Evp Animation Production and Development. Naito replaced Chris Viscardi, who segued to producing.
Additionally, as part of the continuing restructuring at the Viacom cable group, Nickelodeon EVPs Bronwen O’Keefe and Lee Ann Chmielewski-Larsen, were...
I have learned that Shelly Sumpter Gillyard, Evp Talent, Music and Events and a 19-year Nickelodeon veteran, has left the cable network. I hear a replacement will be named shortly.
She joins Elizabeth Murray, who recently stepped down as Evp Programming and Content Strategy. She was replaced last week by former Disney Channels Worldwide exec Paul DeBenedittis.
Since he took over Nickelodeon in October, succeeding Cyma Zarghami, Robbins also brought in longtime close associate Shauna Phelan in the newly created position of Svp Live-Action Scripted Content, and Oscar-nominated producer Ramsey Naito as Evp Animation Production and Development. Naito replaced Chris Viscardi, who segued to producing.
Additionally, as part of the continuing restructuring at the Viacom cable group, Nickelodeon EVPs Bronwen O’Keefe and Lee Ann Chmielewski-Larsen, were...
- 1/21/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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