CBS is developing an adaptation of British comedy Ghosts with New Girl exec producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman
The oddball comedy follows a young couple, whose dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it’s both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents.Monumental Television
, it was created by a number of the team behind BBC comedy Horrible Histories including Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas, who all star alongside, Lolly Adefope and Charlotte Ritchie. The BBC version has been renewed for a second and third season.
Lionsgate Television and BBC Studios will produce the CBS version in association with CBS Television Studios. It kicks off the partnership between theproducer and the production arm of the British public broadcaster, which agreed to co-develop and co-fund scripted series for the U.S. market in October 2018.and last year developed comedyat CBS.
Port and Wiseman are represented by Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger & Light LLP, and Michael Lasker at Mosaic.
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