Laurence Rickard @Lazbotron Twitter profile

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

1 year

Happy New Year one and all! Thank you so much for supporting our ridiculous telly programmes throughout this equally ridiculous year. So excited to start messing with the lights again very soon. Much love to you and yours x

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1 year

End of an eerie era ❤️ 👻

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4 years

12 years ago today was my first day on set (a very cold quarry) with three strangers. ‘Seem nice enough’ I thought. We’ve done a lot of dressing strangely in cold places since then, and I’ve loved every single one. Happy Idiotiversary, fellas x

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Dunno. Looks a bit spooky.

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@Lazbotron

8 months

Dearly departing, October 6th #BBCGhosts #Ghosts

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@Lazbotron

5 months

"It Chrissss-mooos!" Merry Crimbo to those who celebrate and a zillion hugs to those who struggle. You are all the absolute best (and I say that before touching the Bucks Fizz). I very much hope you enjoy our final foray as phantoms - what an incredible ride it has been 👻 🎅🏼 🌲

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@Lazbotron

5 years

Delighted to confirm that #BBCGhosts has indeed been recommissioned for a second AND third series. Huge thanks to Charlotte Moore and all at @BBCOne & BBC Comedy for believing in #Ghosts (so to speak). We can’t wait to get haunting again.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

And with that, it was done. A wrap on Ghosts series 3. Amidst a sea of masks and swabs and screens, we somehow had an absolute ball. The entire crew were amazing. I cannot wait to share what we’ve cooked up for you #bbcghosts 👻

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@Lazbotron

3 years

THEY'RE BACK! Just one week to go until brand new #BBCghosts begins on @BBCOne . So proud of this series and hugely grateful to everyone who helped make it, amidst a sea of swabs, screens and facemasks. 👻

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

7 months

So thrilled with the reception to the new series of #BBCGhosts . Huge thanks to everyone who got in touch with kind words. Very much hope you enjoy the rest of the final (gulp!) batch #Ghosts

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@Lazbotron

1 year

So touched by all the kind messages about #BBCGhosts . To be clear, despite what you might read in certain BBC-bashing hate rags, this was 100% our decision. The BBC have been nothing but supportive of Ghosts since day one, and remain so. Long live @bbccomedy !

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@Lazbotron

6 months

Happy #Ghosts Day! So proud of this one, penned with @benwillbond . #BBCghosts

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Yes! Genuinely! Officially! We’re back to haunt Button House. So excited to start shooting series 4. Lots of fun in store - you have my word x

BBC Studios Press Office

@BBCStudiosPress

2 years

👻 Ghosts returns for a fourth series! The much-loved sitcom distributed by @BBCStudios stars Charlotte Ritchie, @KFRedhot , @RealMatBaynton , @SimonFarnaby , @MarthaHD , @JimHowick , @Lazbotron , @BenWillbond , @LollyAdefope and @WixKaty .

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Longer! Sillier! More Ghosty! The full length trailer for GHOSTS series 4 is here. Starts this Friday, 23rd Sept, on iPlayer and BBC1 @ 8:50pm. Can’t wait to share the new batch! #BBCghosts 👻

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@Lazbotron

1 year

Less than an hour until the #BBCGhosts Christmas Special. Hardly seems like enough time to get adequately excited, but the Baileys should help. Really hope you enjoy it. MERRY CHRISTMAS SO MUCH RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS!!! 🌲👻

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Not sure we can salvage 2020, but we can sure see it out in style. The #Ghosts Christmas Special - tomorrow at 8:30pm on BBC1. We're hugely proud of this and hope it brings you that laughter you ordered x #BBCghosts

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Just one more week of #BBCGhosts S4 to shoot. Always such mixed feelings. Knackered and counting the days, yet never wanting it to end. Feel so lucky to work such fabulous, funny folk.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Due to TV schedules shifting, for obvious reasons, the first episode of new #BBCGhosts Series 4 will now be 20 minutes later than billed, starting at 8:50pm on Friday Sept 23rd, straight after the postponed #Strictly launch show, on BBC1.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Introducing Dolly and Budd. Both siblings settling in nicely and hugely receptive to cuddles. My productivity has reduced by about 70% since they arrived.

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@Lazbotron

4 months

Dearest ghosticles. I love you and will be answering (as many as I can of) your #bbcghosts questions for the next 30 mins if you use the hashtag x

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

1 year

Of course, Kiell thought it was just him and Charlotte.

Martha Howe-Douglas

@MarthaHD

1 year

We had a little Tuesday night do… 👻 #BBCGhosts

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

2 years

It’s Christmas Eve-Eve! The new #BBCGhosts Christmas Special is on BBC1 tonight at 8:30pm, with the wonderful Jennifer Saunders joining the festive fun.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

The day is upon us! Somehow, despite every obstacle thrown in its path, Ghosts is back. Series 3 begins with 'The Bone Plot' tonight at 8:30pm on BBC1, with the entire series then available on iPlayer. Be sure to tell your friends / family / self x

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@Lazbotron

2 years

@HamillHimself @GhostsCBS @theshadowsfx I’ve now been staring at this tweet for 14 solid hours. Everyone’s gone home.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

My son is 3 today and I’m sixty miles away dressed as a caveman. Terrible role model.

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@Lazbotron

5 years

Delighted to finally be able to share our news! Thank you to everyone who watched series one. We can’t wait to get haunting again. #BBCGhosts #Ghosts

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@Lazbotron

2 years

We’re so, SO sorry about this evening’s episode of #BBCGhosts . Genuinely sorry. Really sorry. BBC1, 8:30pm x #sorry

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

3 years

Official vaccine rhyming slang: ‘Anthea’ (Anthea Turner: Moderna) ‘Apple’ (Appletiser: Pfizer) ‘Gary’ (Gary Lineker: Astra-Zeneca) ‘Mick & Mark’ (Ronson & Ronson: Johnson & Johnson) The NHS will be using these terms only from next Thursday, so do commit to memory.

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

5 months

"It Chrissss-mooos!" and we're delighted to invite you for one last (festive) visit to Button House. Christmas Day, 7:45pm, BBC1. #BBCGhosts

BBC Christmas 2023 TV and iPlayer line-up brings the festive spirit to the UK

The spectacular line-up can be enjoyed live or on-demand on BBC iPlayer and across the portfolio of TV channels alongside a vast range of box sets, so viewers can choose when and where they want to...

www.bbc.co.uk

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

2 years

Thank you so much for all the kind messages about #BBCGhosts series 4 so far. Really does mean the world to us. Continues Fridays at 8:30pm on @BBCOne or catch up now on @BBCiPlayer

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

3 years

Yes please Mary

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@Lazbotron

1 year

Can't wait for you to feast your mince pies on this x #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

1 year

The weirdest thing…

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

5 months

Such sad news. An incredible actor and the modern master of deadpan comedy. Raymond Holt was just perfection. Much love to all who knew him. #rip

Andre Braugher: Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Captain Raymond Holt dies aged 61

Braugher often portrayed a gruff policeman, but in roles both dramatic and comedic.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

7 months

👻 ! 👻 ! 👻 ! Happy Ghosts Day ! 👻 ! 👻 ! 👻 All new #BBCGhosts - the final series - starts tonight at 8:30pm on @BBCOne and you'd be fools not to join us... @BBCiPlayer (no spoilers please x)

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

1 year

In a Zoom call yesterday, I referred to Charles Dickens as ‘Chucky Dick-Dick’, just in case anyone was wondering about my maturity level.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Less than one week to go! Watch new GHOSTS Series 4 on BBC1 and iPlayer from Friday 23rd September. #BBCghosts

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

7 months

Well, this is super exciting! Hot off the press (or re-warmed in the courier’s van), a first copy of ‘Ghosts: The Button House Archives’, which looks even lovelier than we had hoped. 200+ pages of full-colour phantom-themed frivolity. Out on October 26th 👻 📖 #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

5 months

Ha! The raw glamour of television.

@simonhynd.bsky.social

@simonhynd

5 months

This is why Grips are called Grips...

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Sincere thanks for all the kind comments about this series of #BBCGhosts . And the hugest of hugs to @simonhynd who directed it with aplomb, a bad back and Covid. Legend.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Can't wait to start week 2 of #BBCGhosts , though I'm getting a little tired of this guy's work ethic.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Thank you so much for the kind messages about new #BBCGhosts - means the absolute world to us. Hope you enjoy the rest of this ridiculous series. x

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@Lazbotron

3 years

You can only imagine how many takes it took to get through @JimHowick ’s ghost story. And don’t even get me started on ‘dip it’. Still making me howl after seeing it 30,000 times. Ludicrous human. #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

2 years

A lot of top-end tech on set today, but nothing beats this bespoke crafted coffee bat. #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

4 months

Sincerely hope that having a comedy up amongst the big dramas shows that it’s a genre that *can* still find an audience and *is* worthy of support and investment. Sitcoms forever! ❤️

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Drama! Intrigue! Tears! Laughter! Angela Lansbury (kind of)! #BBCGhosts series 3 concludes tonight on BBC1, and it's an absolute corker. Run to your tellies for 8:30pm. #creamyberries

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

2 years

SO excited for this series!

BBC Press Office

@bbcpress

2 years

👻 If you've got it, haunt it! The Ghosts are back for series 4, Friday 23 September from 8.30pm on @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer 🏠 Watch series 1-3 ➡️

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Haircut aside, such a joyous week in Button House. Reading scripts and watching art dept work their magic. Can't wait for cameras to roll. #BBCghosts

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@Lazbotron

4 months

Anyway, I should go and eat (again). Thanks for your questions and for watching the show for the last five years and for being generally ace. #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

7 months

The final series of Ghosts starts on Friday... but there might be one last present under the Christmas tree this year #BBCGhosts 👻 🌲

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@Lazbotron

3 years

In tonight’s #BBCGhosts we see a lighter side to Fanny and it might just be the most ridiculous thing we’ve ever done. Not to be missed. 8:30pm, BBC1. 👻

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@Lazbotron

5 years

Ten years ago today. Has passed in the blink of an eye (not literally).

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Bit of a ‘pinch yourself’ moment. Circling must-watches in the (Double Issue!) Radio Times is a little slice of my childhood Christmases. And now there we are. To quote Pat: ‘Wow’. #circlethis #BBCghosts #Ghosts

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@Lazbotron

1 year

Playing ‘Guess Who’ with my son. His first question: ‘Is your person a coward?’

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Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

4 years

I mean, I don’t like them. Who does, right? But tonight’s episode of #BBCGhosts is a testament to the writing of @realmatbaynton and @JimHowick , who took on the plot structure from hell and turned out at absolute gem. Genuinely not to missed, says this unbiased observer.

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@Lazbotron

4 months

Somehow, despite the consummate professionalism of all involved, some apparent ‘bloopers’ from #BBCGhosts Series 5 have surfaced. Must be AI or something.

Hilariously Spooky Bloopers ft. Kylie | Ghosts - BBC

Fancy some spook-tacular outtakes? 👻Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSubWatch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home...

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@Lazbotron

2 years

#BBCGhosts continues this evening. Nice gentle ep - spot of birdwatching. Lovely. 😕

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@Lazbotron

2 years

It happened. #thegreathaircutof2022 #BBCghosts

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Three-year-old furious at me using the term ‘my alarm went off’, asserting that it was already off so the sound must be it going ON. Fair point. Ridiculous language.

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@Lazbotron

1 year

Impressed by how many of the lyrics to ‘I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day’ my son knows. Would be even more impressed if I wasn’t learning this at 4:37am

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@Lazbotron

2 years

🌲🎅🏼 MERRY CHRISTMAS!🌲🎅🏼 Thank you for the lovely tweets and messages about the #BBCGhosts Christmas Special. Means so much to us. If you missed it, head to @BBCiPlayer with the haste of Santa’s coursers x

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@Lazbotron

3 years

To confirm, BILL now makes its BBC1 debut tomorrow at 3:05pm. Six idiots, Shakespeare, lots of laughs and the incomparable Helen McCrory.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

PPE or Shakespearean insult?

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@Lazbotron

3 years

‘Smizing’

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@Lazbotron

4 years

Is official! We can't wait to be back haunting again. #bbcghosts

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@Lazbotron

3 years

This is incredible. I take my hat/head off to the artist

Andrea C. White

@Andrea_C_White

3 years

had way too much fun painting this Humphrey portrait (it was way overdue anyway xD) 👻 #BBCGhosts #ArtistOnTwitter #fanart #digitalpainting

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@Lazbotron

6 months

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@Lazbotron

4 years

Thank you SO much for all the kindness directed at this series of #ghosts . And colossal thanks to our amazing cast and crew for being absolute boss-level humans.👻 #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Beard: gone. Hair: suspiciously Tudor...

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Thanks so much for all your kind messages about series 3 of #BBCGhosts and huge thanks to the incredible team who helped us make it.

Guido Mandozzi

@Guidomando

3 years

Lovely last episode! Here are some “behind the scenes” shots. No heads were harmed in the making of this episode. #bbcghosts #series3 #mandozziphotography #unitstills

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@Lazbotron

1 year

Wonderful! No idea who thought to put such a beautiful face on such a ridiculous person, but he’s been rocking it for half a century now. We made sure the cap had a lovely day. There was SO much cake.

Dawn

@WonderGoddess51

1 year

My sister made this fantastic video to celebrate @benwillbond 's 50th birthday today. He plays the Captain on the BBC show Ghosts. I think it deserves to be seen by more people. So, please watch, like and retweet if you can. #BBCGhosts #HBOMax

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Hair product or Shakespearean insult? #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Just genuinely, in real life, expressed frustration using the phrase 'oh, rats!' and now I'm not allowed to write dialogue anymore.

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@Lazbotron

1 year

Just to be transparent, I *also* paid £4.8 million to HMRC in a settlement unrelated to my offshore investment company’s share-holding in my other company, in a non-dodgy way. It’s just one of those normal people things that I don’t think anyone should make a big deal out of.

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@Lazbotron

4 years

Final #BBCGhosts of the series this evening, and she goes out in style. Button House (finally) hosts its first wedding, which goes about as smoothly as you'd expect, and the ghosts confront a face from the past... 8:30pm @BBCOne #Ghosts

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Day 4 of Covid. So far, not really a fan. It’s like indecisive flu with a side of chloroform.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Well, this is lovely news to wake up to. Celebrating with a SECOND cup of tea.

BAFTA

@BAFTA

3 years

Nominated for the Scripted Comedy BAFTA 📃😂 📺 Ghosts 📺 Inside No. 9 📺 Man Like Mobeen 📺 This Country #VirginMediaBAFTAs

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@Lazbotron

4 years

Not remotely coy, we just referenced more recent work (the wording was signed off long before Friday’s Twitter spat). To be clear, I could not be more proud of the hundreds of sketches I wrote for #HorribleHistories , or the five series I appeared in.

Chortle Comedy

@chortle

4 years

Filming starts on series two of Ghosts | ...but the BBC is suddenly coy about its Horrible History links

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@Lazbotron

3 years

So sad to hear that Sean Lock has passed away. A ridiculous talent and so SO funny. I will be rewatching 15 Storeys High and laughing like an absolute drain.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Series finale of @BBCGhosts this evening, and an old adversary reminds Robin of a very bad day...

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@Lazbotron

5 months

Just found this is the loft while liberating Christmas decs. Is this the most ‘1945’ bit of 1945 newspaper one could possibly find? Like, TOO perfect. Best guess: I’m actually in a film and this was planted by the art dept as a plot device.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Happy Halloween to my fellow ghosts and ghouls. Some superb #bbcghosts costumes and pumpkins on display this year.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

My birthday. A story in three acts.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

First day on camera for #BBCGhosts and received this hugely apt good luck card from production.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

All jabbed up against the Cov here. Vaccination centre running like a well oiled machine. Lovely volunteers too. “But you can’t possibly be old enough sir” said no one at all at any point.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Make-up dept stole my beard. Nothing now keeping hair in check. It achieved sentience at 13:47 and has demanded its own passport.

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@Lazbotron

4 years

Wow. So many lovely replies to this. Huge thanks to everyone who’s stuck with us fools down the centuries. If you’re yet to dive into #BBCGhosts , remedy this at once on iPlayer. x

Laurence Rickard

@Lazbotron

4 years

12 years ago today was my first day on set (a very cold quarry) with three strangers. ‘Seem nice enough’ I thought. We’ve done a lot of dressing strangely in cold places since then, and I’ve loved every single one. Happy Idiotiversary, fellas x

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@Lazbotron

6 months

👻 🌲

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Thanks to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday and a pox upon everyone who hasn’t. Am off to a cast and crew screening, that I’m pretending is my birthday party because I’m a massive narcissist. 🛸 👽

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@Lazbotron

1 year

For anyone wondering when Christmas officially begins, @billthefilm is on BBC2 at 11am today…

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@Lazbotron

3 years

I have always been terrible at numbers. Just read that Elton John has now had a top ten hit in six different decades, starting the year after I was born, and it took me a good 20 seconds to work out how I'm not 60.

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@Lazbotron

6 years

A very Merry Christmas from 66.6666666% of an idiot sextet.

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@Lazbotron

2 years

Ha! Gets my vote.

Holly

@DandySpectacles

2 years

In times like this, the choice is clear. #BBCGhosts #GeneralElection2022 #LizTrussPM #TrussOut @simonfarnaby @JimHowick @Lazbotron @benwillbond @MarthaHD @realmatbaynton

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@Lazbotron

3 years

(Robin voice) “IT CHRISPMAS!”

Idiots Assembled!

@IdiotsAssembled

3 years

GHOSTS @BFI Christmas Special preview - Thursday 9th December 2021 + Q&A (guests TBA) and screening of a bonus episode! Tickets on general sale Thursday 4th November, 11:30am. BFI members tickets on sale now: Who will we be seeing there? 👻 #BBCGhosts

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@Lazbotron

2 years

@JimHowick I’ve already been fired. Did that thing again with the lights. I just won’t learn.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

So much sad news today. We lost some truly tremendous people: puppeteer supremo Phil Eason, the loveliest of journalists Sarah Hughes, and the peerless Paul Ritter. Much love to all who knew them. Rest in peace.

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2 years

Slightly cynical, fact-obsessed 3yo asked how Santa’s sleigh flies. Completely buys my whimsical answer without question. I smile, surprised by his clear belief in magic. Turns out he thought I said ‘magnets’.

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@Lazbotron

3 years

Has anyone misplaced an absolute prickweasel? Because I think he’s on my train.

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