SPOOKtacular!

Ever-popular sitcom Ghosts leads our special preview celebrating the crème de la crème of comedies still set to hit our screens in 2023...

- REBECCA FLETCHER, SARAH SELWOOD

GHOSTS BBC1

Check out this fab-boo-lous first-look photo from the fifth and final (sob!) series of BBC1’s spooktacular sitcom Ghosts.

Filming wrapped on the new six-part run earlier this year, and, as our exclusive picture confirms, Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe have reprised their roles as lovely couple Alison and Mike Cooper, who share their stately abode Button House with an array of wonderful but sometimes very demanding spectres!

Also back are Lolly Adefope as girlish Georgian noblewoman Kitty, Jim Howick as 1980s Scoutmaster Pat, Ben Willbond as World War Two soldier the Captain, Simon Farnaby as 1990s MP Julian, Mathew Baynton as Regency poet Thomas and Martha Howe-Douglas as formidable Edwardian spirit Lady Fanny Button, while Laurence Rickard will again play caveman Robin and Tudor nobleman Headless Humphrey.

The new run will see the Coopers explore fresh means of making ends meet and contemplate a new chapter that could have a big impact on their housemates (after)lives.

Stars Mathew, Martha, Simon, Jim, Laurence and Ben, the show’s creators and writers, decided to bid farewell to Button House to focus on new projects. And the team exclusively tell TV Times that they hope the last hurrah will delight the programme’s legions of devoted fans.