When Ghosts debuted in the UK in 2019, fans delighted in the comedy. n the series, married couple Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) inherit a large house and decide to renovate it and turn it into a luxury hotel in the English countryside. After an accident, Alison discovers she can see and hear multiple spirits who reside in the house. Everyone, from a caveman named Robin (Laurence Richard) to Alison’s ancestor, Lady Fanny Button (Martha Howe-Douglas), brings the laughs as they try to navigate a human who can actually communicate with them. Alison and Mike work tirelessly to make their dreams of running the hotel a reality, all while cohabitating with the ghosts they come to see as friends. After five seasons, the Ghosts creators decided to complete the series with a definitive ending.
The US version of Ghosts hit television screens in 2021 using the same basic premise: Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) inherit a property they intend to turn into a high-quality bed-and-breakfast. Sam falls down the stairs in Season 1 and discovers she can see the ghosts living at Woodstone Manor. The ghosts have been updated from the British version, so there’s a Native American spirit named Sasappis (Roman Zaragoza) and Sam’s relative from the 1890s, Hetty Woodstone (Rebecca Wisocky), as well as an American Revolutionary War soldier named Captain Isaac Higgintoot (Brandon Scott Jones). The series is about to begin its fourth season this fall, but aside from the minor cultural differences between the US and UK versions of the show, there’s one other major alteration between the two series.
