Gatiss first visited the format in 2013 with The Tractate Middoth, with regular annual instalments then following since 2018 – but he has warned that the future of the franchise is not secure with the BBC's Royal Charter expiring at the end of 2027 and a government consultation underway to shape the broadcaster's future.
"To me, it's about persisting – and every year it's a struggle to try and find the money. It's brilliant that the BBC is still really behind it."
Asked by an audience member how fans of the Ghost Story for Christmas strand could support it and help guarantee further instalments, Gatiss added: "I say this absolutely wholeheartedly – support the BBC. Everything's become conflated with BBC News – the BBC is an extraordinary, gestalt creature... always has been. It's full of flaws, but my God, the relentless attempts to kill it... It could easily happen – and it's not just for this, it's for everything it has always represented to all of us, and how cheap it is for what we get. It's extraordinary."
"I've always wanted to do this story, it was one of the first ones I read, and it absolutely made my hair stand on end when I was a kid," Gatiss said. "It was top of my list for a long time."
Though Benson's original was published in 1912, the television adaptation shifts the story forward to 1944, inventing a new framing device wherein Roger (Menzies) recounts his anxieties to a stranger (Nancy Carroll) he meets while sheltering from an air raid during the Blitz.
"Of course, in the story, it's an unnamed narrator who's narrating in the first person, so he needs to be telling the story to someone, so it sort of all came together."
"Negotium Perambulans – that's a great one, [EF] Benson again. Green Tea [by Irish author J Sheridan Le Fanu], I often come back to... there's loads."
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