GHOSTS
COMEDY / FANTASY
USA
2021-now
GHOSTS is an American television sitcom. It was adapted for CBS from the British series of the same name by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who were also its showrunners. It premiered on October 7, 2021 and was picked up for a full season that month. The third season premiered on February 15, 2024. In March 2024, the series was renewed for a fourth season. GHOSTS consists of 51 episodes of 21 minutes.
STORY: Married New Yorkers Samantha (Rose McIver) and Jay Arondekar (Utkarsh Ambudkar) believe that their dreams have come true when they inherit a beautiful country house from Sophie Woodstone, Sam's great aunt, only to find that it is falling apart and inhabited by ghosts from different eras of American history who died on the property and are now bound to the area, appearing as they did at the times of their deaths, until they can reach the afterlife. Jay cannot see or hear the ghosts, but Sam can after a near-death experience.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Brandon Scott Jones as Captain Isaac Higgintoot, an initially closeted gay Continental Army officer who died of dysentery two weeks after the siege of Fort Ticonderoga and has been largely forgotten by history, making him immensely jealous of the more famous Alexander Hamilton. At the end of the first season, he begins a relationship with Nigel Chessum, (John Hartman) a British officer haunting a shed on the property, whom he accidentally killed with an invention that would become the sniper rifle. They become engaged at the end of the second season. He is based mainly on the Captain in the original British series.
Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) & Nigel (John Hartman)
BRANDON SCOTT JONES (2021-now) June 6, 1984, Bel Air, MD, USA
JOHN HARTMAN (2021-now) February 3, 1984, Annandale, VA, USA
SPECIAL: “If you were to tell 12-year-old Brandon that this is the character he's playing on television, it would blow his mind,” Jones, who is gay, says. “I just didn't see too many characters like this on a sitcom. Or if you did see them at all, a lot of times it was in very, very dramatic, very, very painful stories.”
AWARDS: 'GHOSTS' nominated for 1 BAFTA Award, 5 wins and 42 nominations.
7.9 IMDB
