Mathew Baynton as Thomas Angus Thorne – A melodramatic and easily-infatuated Regency Period Romantic poet, who was fatally shot in a duel in 1824, orchestrated by his cousin, Francis Button (who married Thomas' own love interest and whose descendants came to inherit Button House).As she is the only main ghost who is not caucasian, some reports have speculated that the character may be inspired by the real-life story of Dido Elizabeth Belle. She died from the bite of a venomous spider concealed on an imported pineapple in 1780. She has repressed her unhappy memories of her adoptive family, particularly those of her sister. Lolly Adefope as Katherine 'Kitty' Higham – An excitable, overly chummy, naïve Georgian noblewoman who wishes to be friends with everyone.Although at first believing the ghosts to be Alison's hallucinations, Mike comes to accept them and often tries to communicate with them despite being unable to see them. Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Michael 'Mike' Cooper – Alison's husband, who has grand plans for the house but is not adept at putting them into action.After a temporarily death-inducing experience caused by Julian pushing her out of a window, she is able to see, hear and interact with ghosts. Charlotte Ritchie as Alison Cooper – A young woman who has inherited a mansion from Heather Button, a distant relative of unspecified relation. Meanwhile, the house requires a lot of work, and Alison and Mike devise several schemes to assist their perilous finances. Because the Coopers cannot leave for financial reasons, and the ghosts are bound to the mansion's land until they can ascend into the afterlife (which they refer to as being 'sucked off', unaware that the phrase is considered an innuendo in modern times), both sides eventually agree that they have to coexist as best they can. Initially believing the ghosts to be an after-effect of her accident, Alison eventually accepts the truth and confronts them. When she awakens from an induced coma two weeks later, Alison discovers that her husband has arranged a huge mortgage, and that her near-death experience has given her the ability to see and hear the ghosts. After various failed attempts to scare them, one of the ghosts pushes Alison from an upstairs window, resulting in her being clinically dead for three minutes. Ignoring their solicitor's advice to sell the property, Alison and her husband Mike decide to move in and renovate it, with the idea of turning the house into a luxury hotel.Īt first, the ghosts are not happy with the living couple's plans and conspire to get rid of the newcomers. The house is haunted by numerous squabbling ghosts from across the ages who died on its grounds and are invisible and intangible to the living. Premise Īlison Cooper unexpectedly inherits the vast but crumbling Button House from a distant relative. A tie-in book, The Button House Archives, was released on 26 October 2023. It is produced by Monumental Pictures, part of ITV Studios, in association with Them There and filmed on location at West Horsley Place in Surrey. Reviews have been positive, with critics appreciating its high joke rate, premise, and strong ensemble. It was the first post- watershed comedy by the ensemble, although some television critics said that it was suitable for adults and children alike, and it was moved to a pre-watershed slot from series 2 onwards. In November 2023, CBS began airing episodes of the British version to replace new episodes of the American version, whose third season production of was paused and postponed due to the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike and the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes in Hollywood and shifted to premiere in February 2023, with the network broadcasting it under the title, Ghosts UK. The show also airs on Paramount+ and was previously available on HBO Max (now Max) in the US until September 12, 2023, when they lost the streaming rights to the series and also on CBC Gem in Canada. It is written and performed by the collective group Them There, who had previously worked together on productions including Horrible Histories and Yonderland. It follows a group of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing it with its new living occupants. Ghosts is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One in April 2019.
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