Parents' Guide to Ghosts (U.K.)

GHOSTS tells the story of Alison (Charlotte Ritchie) and Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), a young couple fruitlessly searching for a new place to live. Fate intervenes one day when -- while looking at yet another lackluster flat above a smelly restaurant -- Alison receives a surprise phone call informing her she's inherited a huge, though ramshackle, mansion in the country due to the passing of a distant relative. The pair soon realize this is a moneymaking opportunity, and plan to live there while rehabbing the space into a luxury hotel. Unbeknownst to them (until Alison sustains a concussion after a fall that renders her temporarily dead), the house, known as Button Hall, is absolutely riddled with ghosts. Her brief near-death experience leaves Alison with the ability to see those who have passed on, and she quickly learns that this crew of restless spirits -- including a Stone Age-era caveman (Laurence Rickard) with an affinity for chess, a foppish poet (Mathew Baynton) who died in a duel during Romantic times, and prudish Edwardian murder victim Lady Fanny Button (Martha Howe-Douglas) -- is outraged by the idea of "their" resting place being overrun by strangers. The living inhabitants of Button Hall must soon come to an understanding of sorts with the home's bevy of phantoms, and wackiness ensues as they learn to coexist despite their many hilarious differences.