Gatiss wants frost, if not full snow, and bright, clear, nights where your breath plumes from your body. Is there anything worse than a mild Christmas? And we had such promise with the weather recently…” He says, “I saw the weather forecast and it says it’s going to be 13C and rainy on Christmas day. “I’ll take that!” laughs Gatiss, but then adds he’s had the most “depressing news”. In fact, the publicity for his latest one, Count Magnus, which was broadcast Friday, and is now available on iPlayer, says that he is “now as much a part of Christmas as It’s A Wonderful Life”.
Gatiss is one of our most recognisable TV actors and writers, making his name with the surreal comedy of The League of Gentlemen and cementing his reputation with a starring role in Sherlock, his TV take on Dracula, and his recent run of Christmas ghost stories for the BBC adapted from the fiction of MR James. And no one appreciates that quite as much as Mark Gatiss. The thinning of the veil between this world and the next, allowing unquiet spirits to walk the Earth and the long shadows in the moonlit, frosty lanes to shift and darken with things not of this world? Check, check and check.īecause while Christmas might traditionally be the season of goodwill, comfort and joy, it is also very much the time of ghosts. Mince pie for Father Christmas and a carrot for Rudolf on the hearth? Check. It’s Christmas Eve, and you’re as ready as you’ll ever be. Mark Gatiss is one of our most recognisable TV actors and writers (BBC/Adam Lawrence)
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