‘Ghosts’ Showrunners Tease New Characters, “Ghost-On-Ghost Possession,” A ‘Die Hard’ Christmas & More In Season 6 — Comic-Con

Ghosts fans are successful for a ton of surprises successful nan upcoming sixth play of nan celebrated CBS drama series.

Showrunners Joe Port and Joe Wiseman were very generous to nan crowd wrong Ballroom 20 astatine San Diego Comic-Con connected Friday, teasing what to expect aft leaving Pete’s (Richie Moriarty) destiny up successful nan aerial astatine nan extremity of Season 5. That will get addressed rather instantly upon nan show’s return, as nan brace already told Deadline, but they went a measurement further astatine SDCC to hole audiences for nan truth that nan Pete situation won’t needfully beryllium solved right away. Overall, they remained beautiful mum connected Pete details, though.

They made up for that by dropping a dependable travel of different hints astir what’s to come. While nan bid won’t technically return until nan spring, nan web is tiding audiences complete pinch hour-long Halloween and Christmas specials this coming fall.

“In nan Halloween special, which is our first ever hour-long, we’re gonna meet Hetty’s sister, her mustachioed sister Margaret, who’s been referenced respective times successful nan show,” Wiseman revealed to galore oohs and aahs wrong nan room, adding that nan section will present her “in a benignant of different way.”

“She’s gonna beryllium a type of shade that we person ne'er seen,” he added.

As for this year’s Christmas special, “it’s inspired by what we deliberation would beryllium 1 of Jay and astir apt Trevor’s favourite movies, Die Hard,” Port shared.

Speaking of nan vacation specials, there’s more. While he didn’t uncover which section will get nan honor, 1 of nan specials will characteristic nan show’s “first ever ghost-on-ghost possession,” Port said.

Season 6 will besides coincide pinch nan 100th section of Ghosts. That’s historically been a large milestone successful television, and it’s moreover rarer these days arsenic section orders person shrunk tremendously pinch nan emergence of streaming. Just for illustration galore showrunners earlier them, Port and Wiseman are readying to make an arena retired of it.

With that episode, it looks for illustration Ghosts is going a small meta. As it turns out, nan in-universe reality show that nan Woodstone ghosts person taken a liking to, It’s Getting Hot successful Here, will besides beryllium celebrating its 100th section soon, nan showrunners teased. Go figure!

As if that wasn’t already plentifulness to look guardant to, Wiseman besides revealed that nan shade bound will play a beautiful large portion successful Season 6.

Well, to a definite grade it ever does, since it keeps Woodstone’s ghosts (except for Pete) connected nan spot astatine each times, but successful nan outpouring viewers tin expect that “later connected successful nan season, thing temporarily whitethorn hap to nan shade boundary,” he told nan crowd.

As always, nan fans came to Ballroom 20 fresh to propulsion their ain questions and ideas astatine nan imaginative team. One attendee dressed arsenic Brandon Scott Jones’ Isaac Higgintoot suggested that, perhaps, nan Revolutionary War vet had thing to do pinch nan unfortunate, silencing ace successful nan Liberty Bell.

Port and Wiseman loved nan idea, and while you ne'er cognize if that mightiness animate a early storyline, nan 1 point nan showrunners reminded audiences that they tin decidedly count connected is that they’ll proceed to intersect nan beloved Woodstone ghosts pinch existent humanities events arsenic overmuch arsenic they can.

Ghosts will return to nan airwaves sometime this autumn pinch its Halloween typical and again astir Christmastime earlier premiering Season 6 successful 2027.