TV review - Ghosts

Starring Charlotte Ritchie, Simon Farnaby, Mathew Baynton

9:30PM Monday BBC1


Ghosts is the latest production from the team behind widely acclaimed kids show Horrible Histories. Ritchie plays a woman who on the death of distant relative inherits a manor house. She moves into it with her boyfriend and they then start to plan to turn it a hotel which does not go down well with the spirts (including 2 played by Farnayt and Baynton) already residing there. So as to be expected the ghosts embarked on a campaign to expel the newcomers. However it is the interaction the ghosts themselves that is the main selling  point here. On the death of the old woman one of them (an Army officer) laying claim to her only to have to deal with the wailing and falling out of the window!Sometimes the ghosts frighten themselves as when they lay their eyes on a plague stricken girl. Ghosts may not be earth changing but it gives you a good laugh. For some reason Ghosts has been given a rather late slot which gives the impression that it is a lot more aldut than it is.