US remake given the go-ahead

The US remake of Ghosts is going ahead following a successful pilot.

Executives at the CBS network have picked up the show for a full series, Hollywood trade media has reported, just as the options to keep the cast on board expired.

The new version is being made  is being made by Lionsgate Television, the production house that’s also behind an American remake of This Country, now set in the fictional Ohio town of Flatch.

Written by Joe Port and  Joe Wiseman, who previously worked on New Girl, the Ghosts pilot  was shot in December with Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as the couple who buy a haunted house.

The ghosts will be played by Rebecca Wisocky, Brandon Scott Jones, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Richie Moriarty, Sheila Carrasco and Román Zaragoza.

Executive producers on the US series will include the creators and stars of the BBC One original: Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas.

Published: 1 Apr 2021