‘Ghosts’ Star Rose McIver To Direct Season 4 Episode; Jay’s Parents Revealed in Upcoming One-Hour Christmas Special
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large “Ghosts” star Rose McIver will sit behind the camera to direct an episode of the hit CBS comedy, it was revealed Saturday during the show’s panel at New York Comic-Con.
The episode, which starts filming soon and will air in 2025, reps the first time McIver will helm a TV series. On “Ghosts,” McIver plays Sam, who inherits an old, haunted mansion that she and husband Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) turn into a bed and breakfast — much to the chagrin of the ghosts that Sam can communicate with.
This year, on the show’s one-hour Christmas special, viewers will get to meet Jay’s parents for the first time. Sakina Jaffrey (“Billions,” “The Mindy Project”) and Bernard White (“The Matrix,” “Silicon Valley”) have been cast as Jay’s parents, Champa and Mahesh, in the two-part episode, which airs on Thursday, December 19.
In the episodes “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 1” and “A Very Arondekar Christmas Part 2,” according to the logline, “A leaky water heater mishap threatens to ruin holiday plans as Sam and Jay prepare to host Jay’s hard-to-please dad Mahesh (Bernard White), difficult-to-impress mom Champa (Sakina Jaffrey) and sister Bela (Punam Patel).” Here are more details on the characters: Champa “is Jay’s mother, who dotes on Jay, but has much less patience for her daughter-in-law Sam, whom she blames for Jay moving far away from them.
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