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The BBC has acquired Ghosts Australia, which will beryllium alongside nan British and American versions astatine nan UK pubcaster.
The eight-part bid from BBC Studios Australia Productions stars Tamala (Cleverman, Nowhere Boys) and Rowan Witt (Totally Completely Fine, Book Of Mormon) arsenic nan mates who inherit a dilapidated state manor home, only to find it inhabited by an eccentric group of ghosts.
Mandy McElhinney (Love Child, House of Hancock), Brent Hill (Hamilton, School of Rock), Ines English (Last Days of nan Space Age, The Last Anniversary), Michelle Brasier (Thank God You’re Here, Aunty Donna), George Zhao (The Family Law, Gold Diggers) and Jackson Tozer (Ricky Stanicky, Deadloch) play nan apparitions.
The show, which was for Paramount+ successful Australia, will play connected BBC iPlayer and BBC Three successful nan UK. BBC Studios’ section section produced nan show pinch finance from Screenwest and nan Western Australian Production Attraction Incentive. BBC Studios has distribution rights.
Christiaan Van Vuuren and Madeleine Dyer are nan directors, pinch Josh Mapleston nan writer. Libby Butler is book editor and writer, pinch Shontell Ketchell, Philip Tarl Denson and Steph Tisdell besides writing. Bree-Anne Sykes is nan shaper and Sophia Zachariou exec produced alongside Kylie Washington, EVP and Creative Director astatine BBC Studios ANZ, and Sophia Mogford, Paramount ANZ Head of Scripted and Comedy.
Ghosts Australia is 1 of respective remakes that person followed nan BBC’s original deed sitcom, which is from Monumental Television and stars Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe arsenic nan couple. Fox’s American type has besides tally to aggregate seasons, starring nan likes of Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar.
“It’s a caller and very nosy rotation of nan instrumentality for this beloved BBC format,” said Nick Lee, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition. “Fans will really bask nan world this caller ghoulish pack create.”
