The Canterville Ghost

I thought this mini series was a great family series. There isn't a bunch of violence or sex and it is family entertainment. I miss really great series' like this . I hope they make more.

This story has been told and retold in film many times. This remake is a fun rendition with great location shots and beautiful camera work! Worth the time!

Watched this over Christmas with my wife and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The cast were uniformly good,(..tho the twin boys were a little stilted,at times,not a dealbreaker,though...). Always had a soft spot for James Lance since he helped Alan Partridge tune in to 'Bangkok Chick Boys' in his Travelodge Room and he was good in this with a passable American accent,(..ditto,his screen wife..). Haydn Gwynn essentially played the same part she played in the riotous,irreverent 'The Windsors'....absolutely nothing wrong with that,might I add but for us the star of this production was Tony Head as the Ghost,making us smile whenever he was on screen. It was just good old-fashioned Family entertainment and we loved it.

Tech billionaire Hiram Otis moves his family from The States to Canterville Chase, an English Mansion, with an unexpected extra, a ghost, in the form of Simon de Canterville.

First off, in this day and age, why do we still have to suffer Brits playing Americans with abysmal accents, and vice versa, now I'm a big fan of Caroline Catz and James Lance, but those accents are excruciating, and sadly put me off straight away.

The first three episodes are all very poor, to say that too many liberties were taken is a huge understatement. Only in episode four is there anything worth seeing. The special effects genuinely look as though they've come from 1986.

What so unforgivable, is the pacing, it's supposed to be a ghost story, but it's just so slow and boring.

The standout, by a mile is Haydn Gwynne, she manages to make something out of the character, and makes the wicked Grandmother pretty interesting, sadly she's trying to swim upstream.

The adaptation with David Niven is superior in every possible way, please watch that, then compare it to this, for the most part this was very poor.

5/10.

I followed James Lance here bc he was so terrific as Trent Crimm and this seemed like an oddly similar premise, only with Lasso, they hired Americans for American roles and Brits for British roles - and with this show, no such effort was made - and it shows. The script must have been written by a child and the third grader's friends are the producers, but the idea is cute and it's sweet that they're going for Americans inspire Brits Part II. Still, sadly, even the wonderful Anthony Head is AWFUL here. The only value in this show is unintentional humor, but....a laugh's a laugh. Unless this was produced for a British Nickolodeon type of channel for elementary school viewers, this one's a pass.