New CBS sitcom ‘Ghosts’ adds a few clever twists

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVCBS has given “Ghosts” a full season order for the 2021-22 broadcast season.The freshman comedy, which just premiered on Oct. 7, follows a young couple (played by Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar) who inherit a country estate and decide to move into it to fix it up to become a bed and breakfast.

NEW YORK -- CBS won its first week of the new television season, primarily by being the network of choice for people who wanted to watch something other than sports.CBS had 14 of the 20 most-watched non-sports shows on network television last week, while NBC had the other five and Fox had one.

NEW YORK -- The New-York Historical Society has chosen Dr. H.M.

The Larkins brought some cosy viewing back to our Sunday nights last weekend.

Billie Eilish has added three more dates to the forthcoming Australian and New Zealand leg of her ‘Happier Than Ever’ world tour next year.Marking the final additions to this leg of the colossal tour, Eilish will now be playing a third show in Auckland and Brisbane, and a fourth show in Melbourne during her planned September run of shows.These additions come just a few days after her first expansion to this leg of the tour, where she added an extra show to each city she’s set to play – Auckland,

LOS ANGELES -- The title seems to be a dead giveaway, but there’s more to the new comedy “Ghosts” than things that go bump in the night.“We totally think of this show as ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ meets 'Ted Lasso,” said producer Joe Wiseman.Substitute misfit spirits for predatory vampires, and a lovable young couple for upbeat Ted, and you’ll get an inkling of what Wiseman and collaborator Joe Port have in mind for the CBS sitcom. It airs 9 p.m.

Rachael Ray revealed that she’s grateful just to be alive after suffering two tragedies at her New York properties roughly one year apart from one another.  In August of 2020, the celebrity TV chef, 53, revealed that her house in Lake Luzerne, New York burned down in a fire.The cause was determined to be an issue that started in her fireplace chimney that allowed flames to spread on the roof. Ray, her husband John Cusimano and their dog Bella were luckily not harmed in the fire.

Kathy A. McDonald Broadway is back and so is New York’s residential real estate market.

NEW YORK -- The lead character of television's most popular drama exited the show Monday without a fuss, and without the immediate ratings bump that would be expected if there had been.“NCIS” star Mark Harmon, who has played Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs since the CBS drama began in 2003, had his final night as a regular character on Monday's show.

“Life is just a blink. It is one heartbeat in the entire lifespan of the universe.”

Passing the torch! Ahead of the premiere of Amazon Prime’s I Know What You Did Last Summer TV series, the cast of the original movie gave their blessing to the new cast.

Billie Eilish has announced a new suite of dates for her forthcoming world tour, taking the pop megastar to Australia and New Zealand next September.The five-date leg is set to kick off at Auckland’s Spark Arena on Thursday September 8, before Eilish and her entourage dip off to Australia for shows in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.Ticket sales for all dates will go live at 11am local time next Friday (October 15), with a series of presales running from the Monday prior (October 11).

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticAs far as hangout sitcoms go, throwing a misfit group of ghosts from completely different time periods together in one crumbling old house is a smart way to get new mileage out of a time-worn concept. It’s no wonder that CBS, by way of former “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, seized the opportunity to use this premise, which is as fantastical as it is economical.

who lives with him in suburban Ohio, jettisoned its planned Season 2 opener on Aug. 12 when the US pulled out of Afghanistan.Instead, its writers, several of whom are Afghan or Afghan-American, quickly penned a new episode about the impact of the pullout on interpreter Al (Adhir Kalyan) and his best friend, Riley (Parker Young) as the drama unfolded in real time overseas.

It all came down to this – 0-0 heading into the bottom of the ninth inning on the final day of the Major League Baseball season. The New York Yankees needed a win in order to clinch a wild card spot in the American League playoffs.

One Day Immersion, a student career development program focused on the media and entertainment business, said its fall event will emphasize diversity, equity and inclusion as its central theme.

Sam Asghari is hopeful that new documentaries about his fiancé Britney Spears will depict her in a “respectful” manner. But he’s also wary.