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He can physically interact with the corporeal world to a limited degree if he concentrates hard enough, typically with only a forefinger to nudge small objects or press buttons. Simon Farnaby as Julian Fawcett MP – The most recently deceased ghost: a disgraced Tory MP who died of a heart attack in a 1993 sex scandal while not wearing trousers.He falls in love with Alison at first sight despite her being alive, married, and distantly related to him. Mathew Baynton as Thomas Thorne – A melodramatic and easily infatuated Romantic poet, who was fatally shot in a duel in 1824, orchestrated by his cousin, Francis Button (who married Thomas' own love and whose descendants came to inherit Button House).She has repressed her unhappy memories of her adoptive family, particularly those of her sister. Lolly Adefope as Kitty – 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 Mike Cooper – Alison's husband, who has grand plans for the house but is not very 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, 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 awakes two weeks later from an induced coma, Alison discovers her husband has arranged a huge mortgage, and that her near-death experience has given her the ability to see and hear 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 very 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.

It is filmed on location at West Horsley Place in Surrey.

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The series is made by the production company Monumental Pictures, part of ITV Studios. Reviews of the series have been positive, with critics appreciating the high joke rate, the premise and the strength of the acting ensemble. The series is the first post- watershed comedy by the ensemble, although some television critics said that it was suitable for adults and children alike. The series also airs on HBO Max in the US and CBC Gem in Canada. The series is written and performed by many of the cast members of Horrible Histories and Yonderland.

The series follows a collection of ghosts from different historical periods haunting a country house while sharing the house with its new living occupants.

Ghosts is a British sitcom first broadcast on BBC One in April 2019.

Ghost cast