Hit BBC comedy Ghosts is to finish after the upcoming fifth season, bringing to an in depth one of many BBC’s most profitable household comedies of the previous technology.
The Monumental Television group behind the present introduced on social media that “after five incredible years haunting the halls of Button House, we have decided that the time is right to let our beloved sitcom Ghosts rest in peace.”
“We could never have imagined the reception the show has enjoyed, or the fun we have had making it, and we would like to thank our amazing cast and crew as well as everyone at BBC Comedy, BBC1 and Monumental Television for their tireless support,” they added.
Following a younger couple who purchase an outdated mansion which they don’t notice is stuffed with ghosts, every of whom has a narrative, Ghosts has been an outsized hit, recurrently amassing 4M to 5M viewers consolidated per week. The present stars writers and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, with Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe.
In the fifth and last season, Alison (Ritchie) and Mike (Smith-Bynoe) start exploring different means of constructing ends meet and ponder a brand new chapter that would have an enormous impact on the Ghosts’ (after) lives.
The present has been remade right into a profitable U.S. comedy on CBS, working for 2 seasons to date. It is the primary to have been revealed to be ending after the BBC introduced will probably be reducing 1,000 hours of exhibits per yr because it battles to make a whole bunch of tens of millions of kilos of financial savings.
Ghosts (6 x 30’) is a Monumental Television manufacturing in affiliation with Them There for the BBC and was commissioned by Jon Petrie, Director of BBC Comedy Commissioning. The producer is Pat Tookey-Dickson, the director is Simon Hynd, and the creators (additionally creators and stars of Yonderland and Bill, and the unique stars of Horrible Histories) function Executive Producers alongside Monumental’s Alison Carpenter, Debra Hayward and Alison Owen. Ghosts is distributed by BBC Studios and the Commissioning Editor for the BBC is Seb Barwell.
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