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1. Happy Holiday

Air date: Sep 23, 2022

As Mike and Alison welcome the first guests to the new B&B, Pat recalls holiday memories.

2. Speak as ye Choose

Air date: Sep 30, 2022

Mary finally finds her voice, and Kitty teaches the Captain about living in the moment.

3. The Hardest Word

The ghosts' thoughtless behavior sends Alison into meltdown, and they seek forgiveness.

4. Gone Gone

A booking mix-up sees Mike and Alison forced to host a last-minute children's party.

5. Poached Guests

Air date: Oct 21, 2022

The Captain makes a discovery and the Ghosts find a surprising new friend.

6. Not Again

Air date: Oct 28, 2022

Alison and Mike receive some exciting news about their guesthouse business, but the fallout soon sees tensions running high between the pair as they struggle to deal with particularly demanding guests.

7. It's Behind You

Air date: Dec 25, 2022

The ghosts treat Alison to a wonderfully festive Christmas present and Pat faces his past.

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  • Genres: Holiday, Comedy
  • Network: BBC
  • Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2022

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Charlotte Ritchie

Kiell Smith-Bynoe

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One of my wife and I's favourite tv comedies of recent years. Loveable characters and funny, engaging scripts.

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Great clever, light, well-written, well-acted fun!

Every season of this show is 5 Stars!!! I love the cast and the comedy. My husband and I laugh so much when we see the BBC Ghost!!! I wish it would never end!!! Maybe someday they would consider bringing it back for Christmas specials or holiday specials. If you haven't laughed for a while....this is the perfect show for you!

It may not be 5 stars to everyone else but I really enjoyed it!

All of the series are fabulous. I love the premise, the jokes, the emotion. It's one of my favourite series of recent times. I could watch it over and over! The writing is perfect and so is the acting. I've just introduced my 19 year old daughter to it and she loves it too.

I love the BBC version of Ghosts!! I hope to see a fourth season, will be very disappointed if there isn't one.

Absolutely great, characters are well suited to the actors. Funny with heart, you care about the characters.

This show is hilarious. It is one of my all time favorites. Unfortunately I live in America and I am forced to watch the American version, which is awful! I am not allowed to watch season 4. So I guess this is a bad review. I wish they would cancel the American version so I can watch season 4 of the British version here in the United States.

This series and it's American cover are both superb. I prefer BBC's version but buth are really fun and so well written.

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Ghosts season 4 is just as wonderfully funny as the previous series and you can watch the whole series now.

Ghosts , which stars ex- Call the Midwife actress Charlotte Ritchie as a woman who can see ghosts for real, has been one of the BBC's biggest comedy hits for years and it's even spawned a Ghosts US version .

Setting up the new series, Kiell Smyth-Bynoe, who plays Mike, says: "Series four is about the guest house and trying to create the perfect B&B experience. Mike and Alison are trying to get the best reviews — that is their main goal for the series. In the first episode, they get their first customers, and we see how Mike and Alison respond in their own different ways to praise and complaints."

And of course the ghosts aren't happy? "They've only just started to accept Mike and Alison! So the idea of having even more people in the house — for Lady Button especially — is really not what the ghosts want. But Lady Button soon gets involved in the guests' business and has strong opinions on how they're conducting themselves in the house." 

Here's everything we know about the new series including episode round-ups...

Ghosts season 4 release date

Ghosts season 4 ends on Friday, October 28 at 8.30 pm on BBC One. You can watch the whole series on BBC iPlayer .

Ghosts season 4 plot

The BBC has teased some plot details: "When we return for series 4, Button House is open for business, well, the gatehouse is. Can Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) make a success of the humble B&B or will the interfering ghosts once again scupper their plans?"

Talking about what's in store for Pat, Jim Howick says: "Pat is Pat. Part of his character is that he’s always on an even keel and is very much the sunny gel for the group. And so from a character point of view, he doesn't really get to go on many journeys. It's often the characters that are reactionary or prudish in some way and not open to change who get the huge, meandering stories, and Pat is more of a mediator in the group."

What happens in episode one of Ghosts season 4?

Titled "Happy Holiday", the episode sees Alison incredibly nervous as their guest house finally opens. Will their first guests be happy? Alison and Mike do everything in their powers to make them happy, but of course the ghosts aren't helping.

Meanwhile, the plaguers suddenly begin worshipping Thomas much to his delight at first. Plus Pat discusses with Mary how wonderful package holidays were before deciding perhaps they weren't!

What happens in episode two?

Titled "Speak as ye choose", the episode delves into Mary's past, explaining more about how she ended up being burnt as a witch. It also looks into an important friendship she had with another ghost, who helped her to become bolder in saying what she thinks.

Meanwhile, Kitty teaches The Captain the virtues of living in the moment.

Ghosts season 4 cast

Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe) return as the owners of Button House. Martha Howe-Douglas plays Lady Fanny Button, who started to thaw somewhat in series 3 and even turned detective at one point! 

While Mathew Baynton returns as Thomas Thorne, who briefly switched his affections away from Alison in the most recent series. 

Jim Howick plays loveable Pat Butcher, while Ben Willbond is back as the Captain, who likes to keep everything in military order. 

Plus there's Katy Wix as Mary, Laurence Rickard as Robin/Humphrey’s Head, Simon Farnaby as MP Julian Fawcett, and Lolly Adefope as Kitty. 

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Speak As Ye Choose

Fri, Sep 30, 2022 30 mins

Mary tells Julian how she finally found her voice, while Thomas decides he must finally kick his Alison addiction. Old friends of Mike share the surprising secret to their success.

The Hardest Word

Fri, Oct 7, 2022 30 mins

Can the Ghosts get back into Alison's good books after she gives them the biggest telling off of their lives/deaths? Alison and Mike learn that relaxation is harder than it looks.

Fri, Oct 14, 2022 30 mins

Shocking news rocks Button House and a booking mix-up sees Mike and Alison forced to host a last-minute children's party that they are utterly unprepared for.

Poached Guests

Fri, Oct 21, 2022 30 mins

Alison and Mike's neighbour spots a business opportunity which sparks all out war between them. The Captain makes a discovery and the Ghosts find a surprising new friend.

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Fri, Oct 28, 2022 30 mins

Mike and Alison reach boiling point over the B&B. Julian aims to prove he is more selfless than people think. A new addition triggers frightening flashbacks for Robin.

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1. Who Do You Think You Are?

April 9, 2021 | 29 min

Cash-strapped Alison and Mike think their dreams have come true when they inherit a grand country house, unaware that it's falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

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2. Gorilla War

April 9, 2021 | 27 min

Alison, still recovering from her near-fatal accident, finds herself hounded by the ghostly gaggle, who now realize that she can both see and hear them.

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3. Happy Death Day

April 9, 2021 | 30 min

With Pat’s family coming to commemorate his death, Pat begs Alison to pass on a message from beyond the grave, while she attempts to befriend the new builder.

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4. Free Pass

April 9, 2021 | 28 min

Fortune smiles on Mike and Alison when a TV company comes looking for an old house.

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5. Moonah Ston

Alison and Mike meet their posh neighbours, and decide to host a dinner party. Robin celebrates a lunar eclipse.

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6. Getting Out

Mike and Alison consider selling Button House to a hotel chain.

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  • Jules' tragic death in episode 4 raises questions about her suicide and its impact on others. Her struggles with mental health and visions played a major role in her decision.
  • Oranges serve as a symbol of impending doom in True Detective: Night Country, foreshadowing tragedies for Jules and Navarro. Jules seeing the orange before her death symbolized her tragic fate.
  • Jules returns as a ghost to Navarro, potentially to guide or warn her. Their shared visions may be a supernatural ability rather than a mental health condition. Jules' death will drive Navarro to uncover the truth behind Annie K's murder.

A character's tragic death in True Detective: Night Country 's episode 4 leaves several questions surrounding her suicide and its impact on others. Like the previous episodes, True Detective: Night Country 's episode 4 walks through everything Danvers and Navarro do to get to the bottom of the central murder mystery. However, similar to episodes 1, 2, and 3, it also highlights how Danvers struggles to maintain her relationship with her daughter, Peter finds it hard to find time for his family, Hank learns a harsh truth, and Navarro tries to protect her sister.

While the Annie K and Tsalal investigations make some progress, all four characters experience tragedies in their personal lives. While Danvers' daughter, Leah, leaves home on Christmas Eve, Peter's wife asks him to leave their home. In the meantime, Hank gets ghosted by the woman he believed was going to be his wife. Navarro's arc, too, takes a grim turn when she learns that her sister took her own life.

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Since the beginning of True Detective season 4, Jules was seemingly haunted by strange visions of the dead. Navarro had also asked Jules to move to Alaska with her because she believed that staying with family would help her. Since Jules and Navarro's mother also used to get similar visions, the two sisters could not help but assume that it was a mental health condition Jules had inherited. Although Navarro tried to help her and encouraged her to seek professional help, Jules was initially apprehensive about it because of her experiences with medication and mental health institutes.

However, as the season progressed, Jules' condition seemingly got worse, and her visions became even more intense. In True Detective: Night Country 's episode 4's opening moments, there is a scene where Danvers spots Jules taking her clothes off in the blistering cold but saves her before it is too late. After this incident, Navarro got Jules admitted to Ennis' psychiatric facility, but one final vision of her mother took a massive toll on her mental health. After seeing her dead mother under her bed, Jules seemingly grew tired of her family's "curse" and decided to take her own life.

She spent most of her life feeling scared of her visions and seeing them as a curse she inherited from her mother. Towards the end of her arc, she did not want to feel scared anymore. Therefore, she died by suicide.

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What jules seeing the orange before her death symbolizes, the orange foreshadows jules and navarro's future.

Oranges have always been symbols of impending doom or something unfortunate for characters in movies and television shows. For instance, in The Godfather , Vito Corleone gets shot moments after he goes on the street to buy oranges. Similarly, the camera features shots of a man peeling an orange while Harry and Tyrone try to score drugs in the backend of a supermarket in Requiem for a Dream . In True Detective: Night Country 's episode 3 , Navarro, too, finds an orange in the snow and later chucks it to discover it rolling back towards her.

Just like The Godfather , Requiem for a Dream , and several other movies and shows, True Detective seems to use oranges to foreshadow a forthcoming tragedy in a character's arc. The orange rolling back toward Navarro was likely foreshadowing her sister's death and her own upcoming struggles with mental health. Jules seeing the orange before her death seemingly symbolized her tragic fate and also her mother's traumatic demise , given how she sees her dead mother under her bed right after an orange rolls out at her feet.

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Jules seemingly returned to guide or warn navarro.

Just like the ones in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, the scary ghosts in True Detective: Night Country are trying to help their loved ones or seeking help.

In True Detective: Night Country 's episode 4's final arc, Navarro and Danvers visit the dredges after the local fishermen spot a mysterious man in the location. While Danvers goes on to find the man, expecting him to be Raymond Clark, Navarro finds the body of a woman floating under the dredge. When she goes down to investigate, she finds herself face to face with her sister's screaming ghost, seemingly trying to tell her something. Why Jules returns as a ghost to Navarro remains a mystery, but it seems like Jules was trying to warn her about something .

Considering how Navarro, too, is starting to have the same visions as her mother and her sister, it seems likely that their visions are a supernatural ability and not a mental health condition. In episode 3, Navarro also had a vision of Danvers' dead son and even saw him holding his polar bear toy, which further confirmed that her visions are a gift. Jules likely showed up as a ghost to assure her that her ability is not a curse.

Just like the ones in M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense, the scary ghosts in True Detective: Night Country are trying to help their loved ones or seeking help. Danvers' son had likely appeared in episode 3 to assure his grieving mother that he was okay. Similarly, Navarro's sister likely returned after dying to either guide, warn, or assure her sister.

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What jules' death means for true detective: night country episodes 5 & 6, jules' death will prompt navarro to double down on her efforts to find the truth behind annie's death.

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Jules' death has left a significant impact on Navarro. Although Navarro previously trusted her supernatural inklings, Jules' death had made her question her own mental health. This is why she keeps telling Danvers in episode 4 that the "curse" will take her just like it took her mother and sister. However, with nothing left to lose, Navarro will likely throw her caution to the wind and go all in to get to the bottom of the mystery behind Annie K's murder.

Part of the reason why Navarro was so deadset on serving justice to Annie's murderers was because her mother was also killed when she was much younger. Her mother's killer was never found, which likely served as a catalyst for Navarro to join law enforcement. Jules' demise in True Detective: Night Country will likely further fuel her to seek justice and uncover the truth behind Annie K's death and its connections with the Tsalal researchers.

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There’s a classic bit on “The Simpsons” where a panel of children are seated as a focus group for “The Itchy & Scratchy Show” and asked what they want to see from the long-running cartoon, which has started to flag in the ratings. After an exasperating series of responses, the moderator sums up his findings: “So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that’s completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots?”

That’s what “Night Country” is starting to feel like as it heads down the backstretch. It is a realistic, down-to-earth police procedural that’s swarming with supernatural beings and lots of storytelling bric-a-brac. To an extent, that’s part of the “True Detective” brand, to flood the zone with enough symbols, Easter eggs and plot tributaries to keep the Subreddits humming all season with theories about which ones will pay off and which ones will wriggle off with the other red herrings. As the season’s showrunner, Issa López, and her writers start to bring the season to a close, there’s already some evidence that the show has spread itself too thin, despite an abundance of laudable elements.

Take the fate of Navarro’s sister, Julia (Aka Niviana). The image of this lonely, troubled young woman spending her last moments among the icebound wreckage before walking naked into the dark is a haunting one. One of the great strengths of “Night Country” — and the three Nic Pizzolatto seasons of “True Detective” before it — is how beautifully it can conjure these modern noir images from distinct locales.

And yet, so little narrative real estate was given over to Julia until this final episode that her death feels more like a device than an emotional payoff. In a pre-credits scene, we witness Danvers’s compassion in scooping her off the streets and bringing into the station, which brings her closer to Navarro. As for Navarro herself, the heaviness of this loss is a family curse that now threatens to swallow her, too.

The most touching moment in the episode is a much smaller one. When Navarro gets the call from the Coast Guard about Julia, she and Peter have just finished a harrowing mission back to the nomad encampment on Christmas Eve. She suppresses her devastation when Peter asks if everything’s OK and sends him off to be with a family that is still intact. Her emotional generosity is a subtle payoff to a relationship that has been building around these two interconnected cases; the further “Night Country” strays from the grit-and-grind of police work, the less resonant it becomes. The mysteries around Annie’s murder and the frozen scientists link up so beautifully to the tensions within Ennis that the continued sprinkling of specters, flashbacks and various uncanny events has gotten distracting. There are many questions still to answer and only two episodes left.

To that end, this week’s episode does address some of the business at hand. The “Blair Witch”-style video on Annie’s phone, presumably documenting the last moments of her life, includes whale bones frozen in the ice behind her, indicating an ice cave system the detectives are keen to locate. A team from Anchorage finally arrives to take the bodies away, despite Danvers’s desire to poke around them a little more for clues. (In sharing the news that the men were dead before they froze to Captain Ted, Danvers admits to doing “an independent pre-forensic evaluation,” which sounds better than saying that Peter’s veterinarian cousin looked at them.)

A new person of interest emerges in Otis Heiss, a German national with a murky record who was admitted to the hospital with burns on his corneas, ruptured eardrums and self-inflicted bite marks. His file turns up in a medical records search for people with injuries similar to those of the Tsalal men, but when it is revealed later that he mapped the ice cave system, it firms up the link between Annie and the scientists. The fact that there was light in the caves brings the investigation back to Oliver Tagaq (Lance Karmer) at the camp, but it appears that he fled shortly after Danvers and Navarro interviewed him the first time. (He does leave behind a rock with a spiral symbol, which may as well be on the state flag at this point.)

The episode ends with a spooky sequence in one of the abandoned dredges, where Danvers and Navarro follow up on a photo suggesting that Clark has been moving around in the area. A hallmark of this season has been its fusion of the horrific and the hallucinogenic, and the action again divides along those lines, with Danvers cornering a man in a parka who turns out to be Otis and Navarro chasing a phantom below decks. In practical terms, they have found a man who could give them some answers. But Otis has a message about Clark: “He’s hiding in the night country. You’re all in the night country now.”

Sounds ominous, but Danvers and Navarro know their way around.

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Poor Hank, inevitably stood up by his mail-order bride. The sight of him standing on a tarmac with a stuffed rabbit is sad enough, but the rose petals on his bed hit even harder. “I think there’s something wrong with her cell service” is the best excuse he can muster for his son, but he isn’t persuading anyone at this point.

Most “True Detective”-y line of the night, from Danvers talking about her mother’s death: “I prayed so hard that my knees turned black. I couldn’t even walk to the funeral.”

Julie’s last moments at the Lighthouse bring us another rolling orange and a spirit under the bed with a cross necklace, which is associated with her mother and the traumatic past she shares with Navarro. It also nods to Billie Eilish’s opening credits song, “Bury a Friend,” which is about the proverbial monster under the bed .

Until tonight, the Julie and Leah subplots had been running in parallel, demonstrating Navarro’s and Danvers’s efforts to protect a young family member from danger. But Navarro couldn’t save Julie, and Leah assumes that Danvers is not on her side, even when her stepmother gets her out of trouble for defacing the mining office.

Our first glimpse of the Wheeler “murder-suicide” seemed to set up Danvers as an unreliable narrator who is covering up her own actions, but it appears that Navarro might have been in “night country” during the incident.

An earlier version of this article misstated the type of animal Hank was holding. It was a stuffed rabbit, not a teddy bear.

An earlier version of this article misstated which character says of her mother’s death, “I prayed so hard that my knees turned black.” It is Danvers, not Navarro.

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Forced to choose under pain of neck-arrow, what would your favourite Ghosts episode be? The one with Pat’s death day? The Christmas panto ep? The Captain’s story finally told in “Carpe Diem”? Or the one where, in under half an hour, a bunch of comedy characters in silly costumes deliver the most emotionally insightful and instructive reflection on grief perhaps ever shown on TV? We nominated some corkers here , but they barely scratch the surface of this delightful, warm comedy.

Let’s leave it to the experts then. As told to Nathan Bryon on the BBC Sounds podcast Inside… Ghosts , here’s what the show’s creators and stars rate as their personal faves, now that the show is over. From Ben Willbond, Jim Howick, Mat Baynton, Larry Rickard, Martha Howe-Douglas, Kiell Smith-Bynoe and Charlotte Ritchie, here are their personal picks of the BBC show’s best episodes and the cast’s fondest filming memories.

Ben Willbond: Redding Weddy

(Series 2, Episode 3. Writers: Ben Willbond and Simon Farnaby)

In “Redding Weddy”, Mike and Alison rush to prepare Button House and the grounds for a last-minute wedding booking, and inadvertently explode the Captain’s buried experimental WWII limpet mine – teased as instead being a secret about his love life . It was the first appearance of Havers, a key flashback character who returned in the Captain’s death story episode “Carpe Diem”.

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This was the first episode, Willbond told Inside…Ghosts , that the creators realised the ghosts’ backstories had real emotional potential. He and Farnaby enjoyed hoodwinking the audience by teasing that they were going to reveal a huge secret about the Captain’s love life, but instead wrongfooting them at the last minute with the “explosive” buried secret being literally and not figuratively so. (The idea of burying something unstable and dangerous came from a story Ben Willbond’s father told him about having to bury bottles of homemade rhubarb wine that kept over-fermenting and exploding.)

“I think then [“Redding Weddy”] sparked the thought of how all this is going to end. I had an inkling that it had to be about a broken heart, that’s how it had to end for the Captain, I’m afraid.”

Jim Howick: The Woodworm Men

(Series 3, Episode 3. Writers: Jim Howick and Mathew Baynton)

Come series three, it was a natural step in sitcom-land says Jim Howick , to take the characters on holiday. But because the ghosts can’t leave the grounds of Button House, that holiday took the form of a night camping in the garden while the house was being sprayed for woodworm.

The premise appealed to adventure group leader Pat, of course, but also to the cast, says Howick. As the episode was filmed sequentially, “It felt like [they] were actually camping that day!”. For the interior scenes, the tent was erected inside the ballroom of West Horsley Place (which stands in for Button House in the show), and the cast lay down in the dark “like we were having a slumber party” adds co-writer Mat Baynton . Due to Covid restrictions while filming series three, only two actors were allowed inside the tent at any one time, so when it was shot, the others were positioned outside the tent reading in their lines.

Howick – who also named 2022’s panto-themed Christmas special “It’s Behind You” as a favourite – loves how well each of the characters is served in “The Woodworm Men”:

“We’re corrupting Kitty’s innocence by changing the channel so she thinks she’s watching Grease but she’s watching Nightmare on Elm Street . We undermine the two outgoing bravado characters in the group in Robin and Julian – those two are the muscle, really, and we make them scaredy cats to an extreme degree. We put in some Blair Witch tropes. […] it’s a great episode with Thomas because it validates the fact that he grabs hold of things too tightly and we hear a bit about his back story and him searching for inspiration on his grand tour, but not being able to… articulate the inspiration that’s in front of him. However, when he is inspired and not forced into a performative gesture, he can do it.”

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Matthew Baynton: Perfect Day

(Series 2, Episode 6. Writer: Mathew Baynton & Jim Howick)

Series two finale “Perfect Day” was the culmination of that series’ wedding thread. It’s finally time for Button House to host Sam and Claire’s big day, but a snow blizzard and the appearance of the man who’d accidentally killed Pat with an arrow as a child threatens to derail the whole thing.

Episode co-writer Mat Baynton loves what he describes as the “Shakespearean or farce-y element to it” where Mike overhears Alison telling one of the brides about her own wedding day jitters and misinterprets what she says. He also loves Lady Button overcoming her initial shock at the lesbian wedding to realise that her and her gay husband’s lives would have been vastly improved if he had been able to be honest about his sexual identity. “It almost felt like I was having a conversation with my own homophobic Grandmother,” says Baynton.

A comedic high point for Baynton is the physical fight between the ghosts:

“That was the moment where it was like ‘Oh! Now it’s all there!’ That moment was really fun, the idea that they’ve never had a fight before and they realise that they can beat the crap out of each other because they’re ghosts, they can just keep recovering and resetting, so they can hit each other as hard as they like. Such a breakthrough. Really fun [to film], Katy [Wix] was so funny in that sequence as well, going nuts. She’s the most extremely violent of the bunch in that moment. She headbutts the Captain!”

Larry Rickard: Something to Share?

Lolly Adefope as Kitty in Ghosts

(Series 3, Episode 5. Writers: Mathew Baynton & Jim Howick)

In series three’s “ Something to Share? ”, Button House is being used by the various groups of a community centre, including a support group which inspires Alison to help the ghosts therapeutically share their own stories. It features a different kind of ghost flashback from Kitty’s POV in which her sister, father and servants are played by members of the Ghosts cast.

Rickard told Inside…Ghosts that he loves the episode because it really makes use of the fact that the ghosts are from different historical periods:

“I’ve always liked the episodes where you get to focus on the stark difference in opinions or outlooks between now and various eras of the ghosts and I think that one was particularly distilled because you’ve got Alison as a Millennial and the difference just between her and Julian, where there’s only those few years difference, is so big, let alone her and the Captain or her and Robin.”

Rickard’s standout memory from making the episode is the support group scene:

“I loved Julian’s realisation that he’s been a bit drunk for 40 years, and hearing everyone’s dreams, getting to the point where there’s almost a confession from the Captain but they never quite get it. Even Robin gets a tiny one when, after all of Thomas’ complaints, he gets to point out the fact that he watched most of his family being eaten. A lot of real fun in it and also some sort of darkness.”

Martha Howe-Douglas: Bump in the Night

(Series 2, Episode 5. Writers: Martha Howe-Douglas & Larry Rickard)

“ Bump in the Night ” involves Mike and the ghosts having to defend Button House from burglars, despite him not being able to see or hear them. Martha Howe-Douglas describes it to Inside…Ghosts as “an all-round fun caper of an episode” in which everybody has a lot of fun stuff to do.

“It’s a fun, fun thing. There’s Kitty, Mary and Lady Button who are watching the burglary happen and the boys are all trying to stop the burglary happening by alerting Mike, which is very hard because it’s impossible. Lady Button has a lovely moment in here where, because of her need to do things properly, she starts off being absolutely horrified by the burglary and then she has this weird twist where she wants the burglary to be done right – if you’re going to do it, you need to do it properly! So she’s almost instructing them on which pieces to take and which to leave behind and then she has this moment at the end where she’s like ‘what the hell has happened to me’ and snaps out of it.”

Howe-Douglas found the other cast members extremely entertaining in the episode, from Katy W i x ’s repeated use of the word “cups” when Lady B and Mary are trying to list the inventory of stolen goods, to Julian singing “I’ll Make Love to You” accompanied by some “ridiculous dancing, which kills me every time,” she told the podcast.

Kiell Smith-Bynoe: The Ghost of Christmas

(Writers: Ben Willbond & Simon Farnaby)

In 2020 festive special “ The Ghost of Christmas ”, Mike’s family descend on Button House and interfere with his hosting plans, resulting in a Christmas meltdown. Meanwhile, the presence of Mike’s baby niece prompts Julian to reflect on his (lack of) parenting when alive and how he neglected his family in Christmases past.

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Smith-Bynoe told Inside…Ghosts that he enjoyed how details about his own family were woven into the episode by its writers. He remembers Ben Willbond phoning him to ask about his own Christmases and mentioning having roast beef instead of turkey and being the only boy among a group of girl cousins. “I guess that fed in to the casting of him having two sisters. Like real life!”

Smith-Bynoe ’s favourite moment filming was the chainsaw scene that took the crew out of the house and into the woods, where “everybody was in a really fun, dizzy mood”. Podcast host and Obi actor Nathan Bryon commented that the episode was one of the first times he’d seen a Black family celebrating a regular, non- EastEnders tragedy-tinged Christmas on BBC One, which felt important and special, as well as the episode being very funny.

Ben Willbond describes “The Ghost of Christmas” as a turning point for the show:

“I think it’s the first time we started to think about the real heart of Ghosts , being about family. For me anyway, that was where the potential for Ghosts and all the future episodes and the heart of it lay. I loved creating that episode because it does have so much heart.” 

Charlotte Ritchie: Free Pass

(Series 1, Episode 4. Writers: Mathew Baynton & Jim Howick)

In “Free Pass”, Alison and Mike hire out Button House as a filming location for a period drama and the ghosts try to sabotage the production before the house does their work for them when a floor collapses. Charlotte Ritchie picked it as a favourite, she told Inside…Ghosts , because it was the first week of filming on Ghosts :

“It’s an excellent episode anyway and it was amazing because it was our first run-in to the whole thing. It was jam-packed with all the very ghost-y things like Thomas speaking over the living people and Alison having to juggle that, and Mary working out what the wires are – she thinks the camera’s a cow! She thinks they’re tiny mini people.”

The chaos of it appealed to Ritchie , with two sets of everything – one real, one fictional – from the camera crews to the cast to hair and make-up artists, required for the plot. “It was our very first week and we’d only just met everyone and there were two of everyone […] it was such a kind of hectic first week because everything that the show is was all happening right from the very beginning.”

Ritchie’s favourite moment was the scene in which the floor collapses: “I had such a strong feeling of everyone being there and almost genuinely too many people for the actual room itself.

The idea of putting a TV episode inside another TV episode was inspired by Mat Baynton’s role in ITV’s Vanity Fair , which had filmed at West Horsley Place in 2018.

Ghosts series one to five are streaming on BBC iPlayer in the UK. Season three of the US version arrives on CBS in the US on February 15.

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The ghosts (and Mike) are shocked by Alison's colossal telling off - the biggest they have ever had (and that's saying something). They all agree they must come up with a creative way to get back into Alison's good books and show her how truly sorry they are. Mary, however, believing she has done nothing wrong, refuses to take any responsibility - not after the fiery fate that befell her the last time she took the blame for something she didn't do.

Alison and Mike have a last-minute cancellation at the guesthouse and decide that a relaxing day off is exactly what they need. Mike sets about creating the perfect day - cooking Alison lunch, running her a hot bath, a trip to the cinema. But the pair soon discover that unwinding is far more challenging than it looks.

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'Ghosts' season 3 premiere the week after the Super Bowl: Airtime, where to watch

The CBS sitcom "Ghost" returns for season 3 this month.

Everyone's favorite spooky sitcom returns this month as part of CBS Premiere Week , which kicks off right after the Super Bowl on Feb. 11.

"Ghosts" featuring characters Samantha and Jay Arondekar and their eclectic group of spirits is back for season 3 and returns to the Thursday night schedule beginning Feb. 15.

The season premiere episode, "The Owl," offers some long-awaited answers to the second season's cliffhangers. The episode's logline reads : “Sam, Jay, and the remaining ghosts unravel the mystery of which ghost passed into the afterlife. Also, Sam and Jay must relocate an owl in order to do construction on the barn to turn it into Jay’s restaurant.”

Here's everything you need to know about the season 3 premiere.

When is the 'Ghosts' season 3 premiere?

"Ghosts" season 3 premieres on Thursday, Feb. 15 at 8:30 p.m. E.T.

How to watch 'Ghosts'

The series airs lives on the CBS Television Network and is available to stream on Paramount+.

Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers can stream the series live and on demand. For Paramount+ Essential subscribers, they will be able to stream on demand the day after the episode premieres.

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‘True Detective' Review: Episode 4 Fends Off the Ghosts of Christmas Past - Spoilers

[Editor's Note: The following review contains spoilers for "True Detective" Season 4, Episode 4, the fourth hour of "Night Country." Read our previous review here .]

Rose Aguineau (Fiona Shaw), the most intriguing character among a frozen sea of eccentrics, shed a little light on a life that appears, at turns, fabulous and ravaged. After greeting Missy Navarro (Kali Reis) dressed to the nines for a Christmas Eve feast, Rose - whose sole tie to this case is that she discovered the (mostly) dead scientists, with an assist from the ghost of her former lover, Travis (who may be Rust Cohle's father ) - took a brief respite from imparting wisdom about the afterlife to tell her guest a snippet of her past: Rose, it turns out, used to be a professor. "A very serious professor, in a very serious school, writing very serious ideas," she says. But one day, while grading a particularly dull paper, she came to realize that her life's work was meaningless; that all those words just contributed to the deafening noise of a cacophonous civilization. So she left her job to escape to Ennis, Alaska. Why? I imagine there are many reasons, but in Episode 4, the oracular Rose only says, "It's a little quieter here. Mostly. Except for all the f****** dead."

The dead are positively roaring in "True Detective" Season 4, especially this week. Danvers (Jodie Foster) wakes up to piercing rumble of Annie K's dying screams. Later, she remembers how her mother died when little Danvers was just seven years old - a tragedy made worse by how it mirrors the loss of her son, Holden, before he was even that old. Even if Danvers wanted to forget her past, she can't. A polar bear runs her off the road - the same one-eyed polar bear Navarro saw in the premiere - which triggers the memory of her son's stuffed polar bear, which keeps resurfacing in her house. By the time Navarro picks it up on Christmas morning, Danvers has had enough. "Dead people are dead," she shouts. "There's no heaven, there's no hell, there's no ghosts. […] There's no one out there waiting for us. We're here, alone. The dead are gone."

Navarro takes her partner's outburst pretty well, given that her sister just died. Danvers' dead may be clawing their way back out of their graves, rattling the coffins she's long tried to leave buried, but Navarro's grief is fresh. Jules (Aka Niviâna) was supposed to be safe at The Lighthouse. Despite earlier pleas to live independently, Jules understood where she was going as soon as Danvers calmed her down and clothed her that morning. She seemed to accept it, to welcome it, to believe that it could help. But that was before she saw someone, something, under her bed. It was all too much, and despite her sister's devotion, Jules folded up her clothes and walked out into the cold.

Another loved one lost. Another painful echo of a mother gone too soon. Danvers had no reason to fear her son would be taken from her as quickly as her mother had been, but Navarro knew Jules was walking the same dark path as her mom. She tried to stop it. "I failed her," Navarro says. "It's a curse. It calls us, and we follow. It's calling me now."

At the end of Episode 4, she listened. Called to an abandoned facility nicknamed "The Dredges" after someone spotted a man wearing Annie K's coat out there, Navarro and Danvers immediately split upon entering the cold, dark, and wet mining plant. Danvers chases down their suspect, expecting to find Raymond Clark (Owen McDonnell) - the scientist who was dating Annie K, became obsessed with her tattoo, yet was never questioned in relation to her death - and instead sees Otis Heiss (Klaus Tange) peaking out from under Annie's hood. Pete (Finn Bennett) dug up Otis earlier in the episode because he had injuries that matched the dead scientists' (burns on both corneas and "self-inflicted bites"). More importantly, he once mapped the ice caves where Danvers and Navarro suspect Annie K was killed, and they hope (despite his heroin addiction and ensuing mental decline) Otis can guide them through the perilous underground "death trap."

We'll find out if that's plausible next week, but early indicators aren't encouraging. Otis, scared and shaking, tells Danvers that Clark is "gone. He went back down to hide," before clarifying, "He's hiding in the Night Country - and we're all in the Night Country now." Yet Otis' batshit proclamation isn't even the eeriest element of Episode 4's ending. After securing Otis, Danvers goes back downstairs to find Navarro, sitting silently next to a glowing Christmas tree. When she split from her partner, Navarro saw a floating body and followed its footprints to the out-of-place holiday decor. But just when she was ready to blow off her spirited prey, she showed herself. Another ghost, pale white, screaming in Navarro's face. Now, there's blood pouring from her ear, leaving Danvers (and us, the viewers) to wonder if her prophecy is true; if she was cursed, called, and caught.

Last week , Navarro threw an orange into the night, only to have it come rolling back. This week, an orange rolled out from under his sister's bed, ushering in Jules' demise. Now, Navarro is down. Danvers isn't far behind. And the dead's cries are unrelenting.

Case Notes:

• Per the opening titles, we're on the seventh day of night… but I gotta say, when Danvers chucked that stuffed polar bear out the front door, it sure looked like the dawning of a new day.

• Pete complaining about doing extra work on Christmas Eve vs. Navarro saying "F*** Christmas Eve" exemplifies why the latter will always be Danvers' favorite partner (and the former more of her whiny kid - even though he was right to complain!).

• "Is there anyone in this town you haven't f*****?" There were not a lot of laughs this week, but Danvers nervously edging behind Navarro so that Adam's wife wouldn't see the woman he cheated on her with, well, that's funny. Circumstances be damned.

• Jules folding her clothes before walking out to her death is a curious, unexpected tie-in to the dead scientists. They, too, folded their clothes before dying naked in the cold (or their killer did). Is this a native custom? Just good manners? Methinks we'll soon find out.

• Qavvik (Joel D. Montgrand) gifting Navarro a SpongeBob toothbruth is such a great move. Her smile says it all. They're in looooooooveeeee.

• I have very much enjoyed the "Night Country" soundtrack, but I gotta say: Playing Mazzy Star's "Into Dust" is borderline illegal. "The O.C." owns that song so wholly and completely that you can't avoid thinking of the Fox teen sensation whenever it comes on. Not sure it hurt my viewing experience - everyone loves (or should love) remembering our greatest nighttime soap - but it's still out of place.

• That being said, Episode 4 repeatedly, if briefly, bucked its somber tone with moments like Danvers' visiting her ex-lover, Navarro getting an early Christmas gift, and seeing both Captain Ted (Christopher Eccleston) and Hank watching "Elf" on TV. Is that our lonely boys' go-to holiday pick-me-up, after both were stood up by their respective bed buddies? I guess so!

• "Why don't you just say it: That I ruined your life and you didn't want to have the baby?" Yeeeeee- ikes , Peter! I remain very worried about your marriage.

• Of all the shots to choose from Episode 4, is there a sadder possible photo than this? In the words of another great HBO show: Hank, you're a f****** disaster , my guy .

"True Detective" Season 4, "Night Country," releases new episodes Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO and Max.

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