{"id":141999,"date":"2025-09-16T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141999\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:16:09","slug":"award-winning-comedy-stars-film-scenes-for-new-bbc-series-in-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/141999\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning comedy stars film scenes for new BBC series in York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tue 16 Sep<\/p>\n

\"\"Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s NightWatch. Photograph: \tBBC\/ So Humble\/ Roger Keller<\/p>\n

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Tue 16 Sep 2025
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YorkMix<\/a>
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Brother and sister TV stars Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s love of the paranormal has brought them to York.<\/p>\n

The pair, beloved for their performance in hilarious mock documentary This Country, have reunited for a new spooky show.<\/p>\n

Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s NightWatch sees the siblings locked in together \u2013 overnight, in some of the spookiest and reputedly most haunted places in the country.<\/p>\n

They have filmed six half hour episodes for the upcoming BBC Two show.<\/p>\n

Among their overnight locations is \u201ca creepy cinema in York\u201d. This hasn\u2019t been identified as yet. But there\u2019s a few possibilities. <\/p>\n

\"\"Starring in This Country. Photograph: BBC<\/p>\n

At the Everyman on Blossom Street, built as the Odeon in 1937, \u201cteam members have watched guests disappear<\/a> into thin air, seen doors slam shut by themselves, and heard footsteps running through the bar long after everyone had left\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a Medium came to investigate, he spoke of a ghost sobbing on the staircase, a pair of ushers watching guests take their seats, and the ghost of a man sitting in Screen 1, sofa D10\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

There have also been apparations at City Screen, found in the former home of the Yorkshire Evening Press. A projectionist there said she had seen a spirit<\/a>, and there were said to be Roman soldiers haunting the basement.<\/p>\n

During their filming in York in the spring Charlie and Daisy May were seen tucking into chips from Drakes on Low Petergate.<\/p>\n

They also visited some other spooky spots including the grave of highwayman Dick Turpin in St George\u2019s Churchyard, George Street, and the Golden Fleece on Pavement, which says it is one of the most haunted pubs in Britain.<\/p>\n

\"\"Dick Turpin\u2019s grave in York. Photograph: Richard McDougall<\/p>\n

They are also reported to have filmed at the Duke of York pub in King\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n

In Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s NightWatch, they will explore the history of each place before being left to their own devices, which is when the fun will really begin.<\/p>\n

From midnight, the clock will start to slowly countdown to dawn as they try to settle down for a \u2018good\u2019 night\u2019s sleep\u2026<\/p>\n

Catherine Catton, BBC Head of Factual Entertainment and Events comments, \u201cWe are really looking forward to spending the night with Daisy May and Charlie Cooper in some of the UK\u2019s spookiest places.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lisa Clark, Executive Producer, comments: \u201cWorking with Daisy May and Charlie in some of the spookiest buildings in the UK was terrifying \u2013 but also a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"The Golden Fleece in York. Photograph: YorkMix<\/p>\n

Daisy May and Charlie comment: \u201cWe\u2019ve both had a brush with the paranormal, and really do love the concept of life after death, so we thought this could be the perfect way to prove to the world that we\u2019re not delusional. It will be a miracle if we both come out alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show is made by Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s production company, So Humble.<\/p>\n

Their Bafta-winning BBC Three mockumentary This Country, where they starred as cousins Kerry and Lee \u201cKurtan\u201d Mucklowe, was a huge hit. <\/p>\n

Daisy May went on to co-write and star in Am I Being Unreasonable? and also starred in the first series of Last One Laughing on Amazon Prime.<\/p>\n

Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s NightWatch will be screened at a date to be announced this autumm. You can add it to your BBC iPlayer Watchlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue 16 Sep Daisy May and Charlie Cooper\u2019s NightWatch. Photograph: BBC\/ So Humble\/ Roger Keller Tue 16 Sep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-141999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}