This pioneering production takes inspiration from Orson Welles’ infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast and brings a haunting to ‘live’ television. Long before Late Night with the Devil, director Lesley Manning and writer Stephen Volk conceived of this extraordinary Halloween night ‘prank’ on the viewers of the BBC. GHOSTWATCH purports to be a real news magazine show—and it does feature very real and highly influential British broadcaster Michael Parkinson as himself—with a remote crew at a haunted house that manages to unleash a poltergeist on, perhaps, the entire nation. [NH]