‘Ghosts’: Joe Wiseman & Joe Port Hunt More Supernatural Stories As They Plan Summer Shoot For Season 2

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Ghosts has become a rarity in broadcast television – a new comedy hit.The series, which is based on a BBC series, stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Samantha and Jay, a young couple who move into a very old house inhabited by lively spirits.The quirky comedy, which is a departure from the traditional multi-camera sitcoms at CBS, scored the biggest comedy debut this season and averaging 8.31M viewers it has become the number two comedy this year, behind CBS’ own Young Sheldon.

It has grown its audience over the course of its 18-episode season and is also Paramount+’s number one comedy.The series also scored an early renewal in January, another rarity for a freshman series, allowing showrunners and exec producers Joe Wiseman and Joe Port the opportunity to think ahead for season two ahead of the traditional May crunch.CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl is a big supporter, telling Deadline last year that it’s an “imaginative and funny, unicorn show” and he has a lot of confidence that “it has a lot of runway in front of it”.Ahead of tonight’s season one finale – Farnsby & B, where Samantha and Jay open their B&B, despite one of the ghosts, Thorfinn putting a Nordic curse on them when they first moved in, Deadline spoke to Wiseman and Port about the series and their plans for season two.The duo had previously written a pilot for CBS – Eternally Yours – about a family of normal but emotionally closed off vampires, which encouraged the network to offer them the chance to adapt the British series, which comes from the cast of Horrible Histories and is going into its fourth season in the UK.“I watched it and five minutes in, I loved it.