In a shocking accident, American views are getting a run of the UK model of the present. 

The fantastic Ghosts continues to be a homegrown sitcom delight, with its fifth and closing collection airing later this yr.

Starring Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Alison and Mike, who inherit the tumbledown Button Home, the present has made stars of their spectral housemates. Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond all write the present, as effectively serving as its government producers.

After all, the present has additionally been efficiently exported to America. That model stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar, with the same arrange and their very own amusing gaggle of ghosts.

Ghosts US has been a success too, notching up 40 episodes throughout two seasons. It has a 3rd coming too, nevertheless manufacturing has stalled as a result of ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

As a treatment, broadcaster CBS plans to fill its schedules by displaying the UK model of the present. In line with the information we picked up through Collider, CBS are leaning into the distinction too. Every instalment of Ghosts UK shall be paired with a re-run from the US collection. After all, this sample can solely final so lengthy; the British model solely runs to 4, six-episode collection. Plus a few Christmas specials.

It’s a far cry from the BBC’s method. After they acquired the primary season of the US collection, they dropped it on iPlayer and rolled it out quietly on BBC Three.

It will likely be fascinating to see what American viewers make of the comparability.