The Hauntening
Writer and performer Tom Neenan came up with this brilliant idea for a modern-day series of ghost stories - as our blurb says:
"Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as Tom Neenan discovers what horrors may lurk in our apps and gadgets...
Modern technology is terrifying. The average smartphone carries out three-point-three-six billion instructions per second. The average person can only carry out one instruction in that time. Stop and think about that for a second. Sorry, that’s two instructions; you won’t be able to do that.
But what if modern technology was... literally terrifying? What if there really was a ghost in the machine?"
The shows went out in the run up to Halloween 2018 and caught the attention of a huge number of hitherto-unsuspected Sci-Fi and Horror magazines and websites...
... and was thereupon promptly recommissioned for a run of three, which as anyone will tell you without the aid of a calculator, is an increase of 50%...
The new shows saw the return of Tom & Heidi, with special guests Vincent Franklin, Nicola Walker, Naz Osmanoglu and Max & Ivan's very own Ivan Gonzalez - together with the redoubtable Ewan Bailey, promoted from playing a fridge to a human. Sort of... The series was nominated for a Writers Guild award for best Audio Comedy.
The third series of four, (yep, increasing all the time, well spotted) included the entirely major talents of Nina Sosanya, Georgie Glen, Andy Nyman, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Freya Parker and Dan Tetsell playing the most irritating man in the world, or, as Tom wrote in the stage directions "you can almost hear the ponytail"...
The Hauntening
Series 1
Episode 1
"SoulMaits"
First Tx: 11/10/17 23:15 – 23:30
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors may lurk in our apps and gadgets...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Jane | Kath Hughes |
The Cabbie | Roger Morlidge |
and | |
The App | Frances Barber |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced and directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 2
"The Asag Chiller"
First Tx: 18/10/17 23:15 – 23:30
Tech blogger Tom has acquired a healthy new lifestyle, a shiny new fridge and a terrifying new problem in the second of these modern horror stories
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Debbi | Kath Hughes |
Reynolds | Roger Morlidge |
and | |
Asag | Ewan Bailey |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced and directed by | David Tyler |
Series 2
Episode 1
"Hosting"
First Tx: 17/10/18 23:15 – 23:30
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. This episode is a podcast - with an unwanted guest...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Desmond | Vincent Franklin |
Dominic Caville | Ewan Bailey |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced and directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 2
"Shofa"
First Tx: 24/10/18 23:15 – 23:30
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode a taxi app offers some unexpected destinations...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Amar | Naz Osmanoglu |
The Taxi Controller | Georgie Fuller |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 3
"Viral"
First Tx: 31/10/18 23:15 – 23:30
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode Tom attracts the attention of a very persistent vlogger...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Camilla | Nicola Walker |
Dale | Ewan Bailey |
Felixxx | Ivan Gonzalez |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Series 3
Episode 1
"Waiting"
First Tx: 14/10/20 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode – hang on, let me just put you on hold...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
The Operators | Nina Sosanya |
Alison Senior | |
Lucy Thackeray | |
Robert Wilfort | |
Tony | Dan Tetsell |
The Waiter | Naz Osmanoglu |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 2
"Calculating"
First Tx: 21/10/20 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. This week, Tom & Heidi are trapped in a terrifying situation - and have to make a horrifying decision...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Dr Conroy | Julian Rhind-Tutt |
Elicia | Georgie Glen |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 3
"Pedalling"
First Tx: 28/10/20 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode, Tom has to stay ahead of the pack - in every sense...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
DI Gerry | Nicholas Woodeson |
DC Freck | Ethan Lawrence |
Olivia | Freya Parker |
'Rency | Naz Osmanoglu |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 4
"Sleeping"
First Tx: 04/11/20 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode, sweet dreams turn very very sour...
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Charlie | Andy Nyman |
Dennis | Dan Tetsell |
The Advert | Rebecca Gethings |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Series 4
Episode 1
"Star Struck"
First Tx: 05/10/22 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode, a celebrity birthday message from Joanna Lumley turns into a terrifying gift for Tom
Starring | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
With special guest stars | |
Cam | Martin Jarvis |
as herself | Joanna Lumley |
as himself | Peter Davison |
Also starring | |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
June | Phoebe Horn |
Police Officer | Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong |
The Waiter | |
The Deepfakes | Lewis Macleod |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 2
"The Mezzo Ten"
First Tx: 12/10/22 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode – what if an NFT was not only a massively ridiculous way to spend your money but terrifying as well?
Starring: | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Dennis | Dan Tetsell |
Lance | Joseph May |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 3
"WordHell"
First Tx: 19/10/22 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode a simple wordgame turns N*STY...
Starring: | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
Ken | Steve Brody |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |
Episode 4
"Dead Funny"
First Tx: 26/10/22 23:00 – 23:15
Travel through the bad gateway in this modern ghost story as writer and performer Tom Neenan discovers what horrors lurk in our apps and gadgets. In this episode, there seems to be a problem with the studio audience – because there shouldn’t be one...
Starring: | |
Tom | Tom Neenan |
Heidi | Jenny Bede |
The Archivist | Geoffrey Whitehead |
The Barman | Morgan Jones |
Written by | Tom Neenan |
Produced & directed by | David Tyler |