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Anthony Head plays an aristocratic spook in Oscar Wilde's timeless ghost story

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The Canterville Ghost Christmas Day, 3.10pm, & Boxing Day, 3pm, Channel 5

Having starred in Merlin and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Anthony Head is no stranger to supernatural tales, but this Christmas, the actor breaks new ground when he stars as a disgruntled spook in a modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1887 short story The Canterville Ghost.

The Channel 5 two-parter stars Head as Sir Simon de Canterville, the ghost of a nobleman who was imprisoned and left to starve to death at Canterville Chase after allegedly killing his wife.