Doctor Who fans who watch the first episode of Bookish season 2 may feel their ears prick up at the name of guest star Jason Watkins's character - Harold Sneed.
The character, a medium, shares a surname with Gabriel Sneed, Alan David's character from the first episode of Doctor Who that Gatiss wrote, 2005's The Unquiet Dead.
Unsurprisingly, this was not a coincidence, particularly given that that episode also deals with the world of mediums and seances.
Speaking with Radio Times, when it was suggested this could be a Doctor Who Easter Egg, Gatiss simply said "Maybe…", before his co-star Polly Walker asked which episode it was referencing.
Gatiss replied: "My first one, with Simon Callow as Charles Dickens, is about mediums, it's called The Unquiet Dead, I wrote it 20 years ago. Alan David's character is called Sneed, and I thought, 'Well, I'm doing it again.' As Alan Bennett said, 'We only have a few beans in our tin to rattle,' so I've gone back to it."
"I just love it, I love the whole world of it," Gatiss continued. "And the idea of those people and their fakery, but also all the theatre of that, I just adore - the way that they do these things and still get away with it.
"As Richard Dawkins said, 'Why are their questions always so banal? Why don't you ask them what it's like to be dead?' But instead it's like, 'He's very proud of you. He's looking down on you. He loves the grandchildren,' and it's just so basic how it's done, and yet people still fall for it."
View Green Video on the source websiteThe synopsis for the first story in Bookish season 2, which is titled Memento Mori, says: "On Archangel Lane, the doors of Book’s Books reopen for a thrilling second series as Gabriel Book (Gatiss) is drawn into his most haunting case yet. When charismatic medium Harold Sneed (Watkins) hosts a mysterious séance, a table full of suspects are suddenly under investigation.
"Reuniting with Inspector Bliss (Levey), Book investigates a group of lost souls all searching for connections to the spirit world. Mrs Dredge (Rosie Cavaliero) returns alongside the eccentric Plumchute sisters (Sara Crowe, Amanda Lawrence), Sneed’s watchful assistant Ayesha (Saffron Coomber) and the dashing Colonel Reggie Winters (Rupert Graves).
"Meanwhile, Jack (Connor Finch) and Trottie (Walker) devise a plan to investigate the private lives of the suspects. Nora (Buket Kömür) escapes her responsibilities to her uncle Yusuf (Youssef Kerkour), and the bookshop comes under threat as Sergeant Morris (Blake Harrison) begins an investigation of his own."
Ahead of season 2 starting to air, fans got good news regarding the future of Bookish. The detective series will be returning for a two-part Christmas special later this year, followed by season 3 in 2027.
Bookish season 2 starts at 8pm on Wednesday 26 August on U&Alibi.
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