Ghosts is an American television sitcom adapted for CBS from the original British series of the same name by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who serve as the series' showrunners. It premiered on October 7, 2021 and was picked up for a full season that month. It was renewed for a second season in January 2022, which premiered on September 29, 2022. It was renewed for a third season in January 2023, which began filming in Montreal on December 2, 2023. The third season, of ten episodes, premiered on February 15, 2024. In March 2024, it was renewed for a fourth season which premiered on October 17, 2024. In February 2025, the series was renewed for a fifth and sixth season. The fifth season premiered on October 16, 2025. The sixth season is slated to premiere on October 29, 2026.
Premise Married New Yorkers Samantha "Sam" and Jay Arondekar believe their dreams have come true when they inherit Woodstone Manor, a beautiful country house, from Sophie Brimble, Sam's great aunt. The two have a dream of turning the property into a bed and breakfast, only to find that the manor is falling apart. When Sam has a near-death experience caused by Trevor successfully moving a vase in his path to haunt the Arondekars, she realizes the property is also inhabited by ghosts. The ghosts are of people 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 and each with a unique power based on their life or manner of death, until they can reach the afterlife. Sam can now see and hear the ghosts, while Jay cannot.
Cast and characters Main Living Rose McIver as Samantha "Sam" Arondekar, a freelance journalist who, after an accident that leaves her clinically dead for three minutes, revives with the ability to see, hear, and interact with ghosts. She is loosely based on Alison Cooper from the original British series. Utkarsh Ambudkar as Jayanth "Jay" Arondekar, Samantha's husband and a chef with many typically geek-like interests such as comic books, sci-fi films like Star Wars movies, video games, Dungeons & Dragons, and the movie Shawshank Redemption. He often attempts to communicate with the ghosts despite being unable to see or hear them, and founds his own restaurant in an abandoned barn on the Woodstone mansion property in the fourth season. He is loosely based on Mike Cooper from the original British series. Ben Feldman as Kyle Rosenblatt (season 6; recurring seasons 4–5), a man who can see ghosts after colliding with a bird while riding a roller coaster. Sam, Jay and sometimes the ghosts occasionally call on him for this reason.
Ghosts Devan Chandler Long as Thorfinn ("Thor"), an aggressive, often melodramatic Viking from Norway and the oldest of the main ghosts, who set out to explore North America over 1,000 years ago but was left behind by his shipmates who counted one shipmate twice. He died from a lightning strike conducted by the helmet he wore. He has the ability to manipulate electricity and enjoys watching TV as well as regaling his friends with stories of combat, especially against Danes, and his favorite foods, particularly cod. He has a son named Bjørn, now a ghost on an adjacent property, who married a Danish woman. His previous ghost girlfriends include Luella and "Flat Maria", both of whom have since moved on to the afterlife. His current girlfriend is “Flower” Susan Montero. He is loosely based on Robin the caveman in the original British series. Román Zaragoza as Sasappis ("Sass"), a wry Lenape hunter and storyteller, who often serves as the voice of reason for the other ghosts. Sass died in 1513 for reasons unknown. He can influence living people's thoughts by interacting with them as characters in their dreams, making him the only ghost who can directly speak to Jay. He enjoys storytelling, stirring up drama, watching TV, and smelling food, especially pizza, prepared by the living. Despite being the second oldest ghost, he is more aware of the modern world than most and speaks like a modern person because he "pays attention". He died a virgin and is easily embarrassed whenever other ghosts bring it up. However, by the end of the fourth season, he has his first intimate experience with a Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter named Joan. Brandon Scott Jones as Captain Isaac Higgintoot (né Higginbottom), an initially closeted gay Continental Army officer who died of dysentery at age 35 in 1777 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, with whom he became rivals over a neck ruffle they both coveted. He has the most embarrassing of ghost powers; the living can smell a foul odor if they pass through him. He is also implied to have been an ineffective leader as he often mentions how he "heroically" surrendered after most of the battles he led. He is inspired mainly by the Captain in the original British series, while his ghost power is similar to that of Mary Guppy the witch trial victim. Rebecca Wisocky as Henrietta "Hetty" Woodstone, the uptight lady of the manor, Sam's great-great-great-aunt, and the daughter of the original owner of the mansion. She takes pride in being wealthy, looks down her nose on the working class and anyone Irish (though she eventually learns she had an Irish grandmother), and experimented with now-illicit drugs throughout her life, including cocaine and morphine. Her husband Elias cheated on her in life with many different women, while her son Thomas was responsible for Alberta's murder. She strangled herself to death at age 45 in 1895 using a telephone cord to avoid being arrested for Elias's crimes, allowing Thomas to escape with his inheritance. Her ghost power is dormant until the fourth season, when she develops the ability to interact with the living on St. Patrick's Day after acknowledging and embracing her Irish heritage. She is based on Lady Fanny Button in the original British series. Alice Manning as Young Hetty, who could see and hear Thorfinn as a small child and mistook him for an imaginary friend she named "Gordon". Danielle Pinnock as Alberta Haynes (born Esther Greene), a Prohibition-era diva lounge singer and rising star who gave up ventriloquism in 1923, fled to New York, and adopted a new identity in order to pursue music until she was murdered in 1928 by drinking strychnine-laced moonshine. The second season reveals that she sold out a more popular singer named Clara Brown to the police in order to get a chance to shine on stage. Solving her murder is a key plot arc of the second season, and is done as part of Sam's true crime podcast. She enjoys singing, being in the spotlight, and gossip. Her humming can be heard by the living. She can also be heard in full by Alexa devices, and her hat used to be a piece of her ventriloquist dummy before she symbolically "murdered" it with a baseball bat. Alberta later begins to develop feelings for long time admirer, Pete, in the fourth season, leading to them sharing their first kiss in the season finale, although they don't officially start a relationship until the season 5 premiere, "Soul Custody". Sheila Carrasco as Susan "Flower" Montero, a cheerful and sweet but naive hippie of Hispanic origin who lived in both a commune and a cult in the 1960s. In 1969 at age 31, she was mauled to death by a bear she tried to hug while under the influence of drugs. She alternates between flighty, forgetful moments and brief periods of clarity. She can put a living person into a hallucinogenic high if she passes through them, can speak fluent Spanish, and likes being in polyamorous relationships. If she passes through a living person on drugs, it temporarily neutralizes the effects of hers. She shares a closeness and gentle flirtation with Thorfinn, and they start dating later in the second season. Due to Carrasco's maternity leave, Flower goes missing in the third season, causing her friends to mistakenly believe she has moved on to the afterlife, but she is rescued towards the season's end. Richie Moriarty as Peter "Pete" Martino, a friendly and polite, but socially awkward, Italian American travel agent and leader of a uniformed youth group called the Pinecone Troopers. He died at age 40 in 1985 when one of the uniformed girls in his care accidentally shot him through the neck with an arrow. He has an initially unrequited romantic interest in Alberta, and Jay considers him one of his best friends due to many shared interests between them. Among his varied interests are improvisational theater, basketball, Dungeons & Dragons, the Star Wars franchise of films, and general 1980s culture like Newhart and Ghostbusters. He is the only ghost in the main group who can leave the Woodstone property and go anywhere he wants, but if he stays away from the property for too long, he will start to vanish piece-by-piece into oblivion. Discovering this power increases his confidence and causes Alberta to become interested in him, leading to their first kiss in the season 4 finale and the official start of a relationship in the following season. He completely disappears in the season 5 finale, leaving his fate unknown. He is based on Pat Butcher in the original British series. Asher Grodman as Trevor Lefkowitz, a wealthy, womanizing, hard-partying, Jewish stockbroker and Wharton School alumnus who worked at Lehman Brothers. He is the most recently deceased of the main ghosts, who died at age 33 in 2000 from a heart attack, caused by an accidental drug overdose, while not wearing pants. Though he claims he lost his pants because he died during a sexual encounter, he simply lent his pants to his friend Adam Pinkus as a good deed. He can physically interact with the corporeal world to a limited degree, usually moving objects with only one index finger, if he concentrates hard enough. He is loosely based on Julian Fawcett MP in the original British series, and his initial attraction to Sam is similar to the poet Thomas Thorne's infatuation with Sam's counterpart Alison. Sam Ashe Arnold as Young Trevor.
Recurring Ghosts Hudson Thames (season 1) and Alex Boniello (season 2–present) as the head of Crash, a smooth-talking 1950s-era greaser ghost who was decapitated. He is loosely based on Sir Humphrey Bone in the British version; however, unlike Humphrey, whose head is always present in each appearance, Crash's head goes missing in the pilot episode when Thorfinn accidentally knocks it off his neck. Only his body (played by Matt Keyes) appears until his head is recovered in "Ghost Father of the Bride." The cholera victim ghosts (also called basement ghosts): an indeterminate number of ghosts (a dozen or so) who died in a pest house that used to be on the property during a 19th-century cholera outbreak and whose bodies were buried together in a pit. Although they can go upstairs if they wish, their sickly appearances disturb the upstairs ghosts, so they spend all their time in the basement—watching the water heater for hours or even days at a time (the water heater is treated by the basement ghosts as a major source of entertainment). They can all give non-contagious symptoms of cholera for 24 hours to any living person they walk through. They are based on the plague ghosts in the British version, and most share first names with their actors. Betsy Sodaro as Nancy/Adeline, a brash, obnoxious (though usually cheerful), supposed Albany native. Unlike most of the basement ghosts, she spends significant amounts of time both upstairs and downstairs, though she lives in the basement. Season 5 reveals she is actually a famous missing English princess named Adeline Marie Dunham, who rejected royal life and made her way to North America to live a wild life before dying. Proof of her death at the location of Woodstone makes the property a historical landmark. Stuart Fink as Cholera Victim Stuart