Interview with
ELEVEN
Hi guys, thanks so much for taking time out to speak with us. Firstly would you be so kind as to introduce you both and what is ELEVEN all about, who? Why, when and where? Joel Wilson and I started making documentaries for Channel 4 in 2001. We set up Eleven in 2006 and have since been making drama and documentaries, including GLUE, THE SECRET LIFE OF THE PUB, and THE ENFIELD HAUNTING. So, tell us how you came to be involved with The Enfield Haunting, it’s going to give the paranormal a massive boost in terms of audience.
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Haunted Magazine Issue 14
We worked with a film maker called Nick Jones in 2007. Nick had just made a documentary called Interview with A Poltergeist, for Channel 4; and he told us about Guy Playfair’s book This House is Haunted. We discovered that Guy had never sold the TV rights to his book, and so we began discussing with Guy how a TV drama version of the book might work. A year or two later, we had a deal. On a personal level do you believe in ghosts, poltergeists and spooks at all, and has your perception changed on them since working on it? I’m open minded. I do like empirical evidence, which is why I found Enfield so compelling: Guy and Maurice had assembled an extraordinary