Ghosts
Credits: lead actor / writer / creator / executive producer
Ghosts
is a major new sitcom for BBC1, created, written by and starring
Larry and his cohorts from Yonderland and Horrible Histories. The
series centres around Alison and Mike – a young couple
struggling to get on the urban property ladder – whose prayers
appear answered when a distant relative bequeaths them a sprawling
country estate. The catch? The old house is both falling apart and
teeming with the ghosts of
its former inhabitants.
Larry stars as two of these troublesome spirits -
Robin, a wise but unpredictable caveman, and Humphrey, a decapitated
Tudor locked in an endless battle to be reunited with his own body.
The show also stars Katy Wix (Not Going Out, The Windsors) and Lolly Adefope (This Time with Alan Partridge, Damned), with Charlotte Richie (Fresh Meat, Call The Midwife) as Alison, and Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Stath Lets Flats, Enterprice) as Mike.
The series was launched in 2019 to glowing critical reception, quickly becoming the most watched comedy on UK television, and was immediately re-commissioned for two further series. The series will play on HBO Max in America from 2020, and an American remake is already in development with CBS
Ghosts is produced by Monumental Pictures in association with Them There - a new production collective compromising the six-strong team who conceived the show and executive produce.
PRESS
★★★★★ “Wonderfully silly and hugely entertaining”
- TV Times
★★★★ “Will make you die laughing”
- The Guardian
★★★★ “A deliriously daft supernatural romp”
- The Telegraph
★★★★ “Lovely, funny, silly comedy”
- The Independent
★★★★ “The Horrible Histories gang add to their great track record for comedy”
- Daily Mail
★★★★ “A curiously life-affirming sitcom about death”
- The Times
★★★★ “If you are hankering
after pure silliness, you’ve found your man”
- Mail on Sunday
★★★★ “Quite delightfully bonkers”
- The i Newspaper
★★★★ “Joyously,
infectiously silly, yet at the same time whip-smart… It’s
a treat”
- The Irish Independent
★★★★
- Heat
“Daft
laughs galore”
- The
Sun
“Inventive
and delightful… quirky, clever and fun”
- Daily Mirror
“This
friendly primetime sitcom turns out to be a treat”
- The
Observer
“Brilliantly imaginative, very silly and seriously funny”
- The People
“Silliness that soon becomes infectious”
- Daily Express
“Prepare
for major hilarity”
- Daily
Star
“Reminiscent of the heyday of British movie comedy”
- Chortle
"A whole new audience of admirers will take to this brilliantly funny series"
- On The Box
“Dead Funny”
- Radio Times