JamesG
09-30-2022, 12:07 AM
Two Petes are Better than One as "Ghosts"
by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
September 29, 2022
"Ghosts" is ready to have you howling with ghoulish laughter when its second season premieres. And this time around, a familiar face from across the pond is making his ectoplasmic presence felt.
This season, "Ghosts" has managed to snag a cameo from one of the U.K. original's co-creators and stars, Mathew Baynton, who played Thomas Thorne, the ghost of an overly dramatic Romantic-era poet, who was fatally shot in a duel over the woman he loved.
He then fell in love with the very alive, very married Alison (the U.K. Sam), played by Charlotte Ritchie, even though she was distantly related to him.
"We'd been looking for a chance to have one of the U.K. ghosts on, so we were thrilled when Mat said yes, and not surprised at all when he knocked the role out of the park," said showrunners and executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman.
"Our main goal when we set out to adapt Ghosts was honestly to make something that the British creators liked, so to have this stamp of approval from someone we admire so much, was a huge validation for our whole team."
Baynton will play Actor Pete, an English method actor who becomes obsessed with "getting to the truth" of Pete Martino (Richie Moriarty's arrow-necked travel agent forever in Scout guise) when he is hired by the TV show Dumb Deaths to recreate the day Pete died.
"When I was invited to play a guest role in the CBS version of Ghosts, I was a little concerned that the two universes colliding would tear a hole in the fabric of time and space," Baynton says. "Thankfully, that didn't happen and instead I had a lot of fun playing with a bunch of very lovely funny people."
https://ew.com/tv/ghosts-cbs-season-2-preview-mathew-baynton/
by Lester Fabian Brathwaite
September 29, 2022
"Ghosts" is ready to have you howling with ghoulish laughter when its second season premieres. And this time around, a familiar face from across the pond is making his ectoplasmic presence felt.
This season, "Ghosts" has managed to snag a cameo from one of the U.K. original's co-creators and stars, Mathew Baynton, who played Thomas Thorne, the ghost of an overly dramatic Romantic-era poet, who was fatally shot in a duel over the woman he loved.
He then fell in love with the very alive, very married Alison (the U.K. Sam), played by Charlotte Ritchie, even though she was distantly related to him.
"We'd been looking for a chance to have one of the U.K. ghosts on, so we were thrilled when Mat said yes, and not surprised at all when he knocked the role out of the park," said showrunners and executive producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman.
"Our main goal when we set out to adapt Ghosts was honestly to make something that the British creators liked, so to have this stamp of approval from someone we admire so much, was a huge validation for our whole team."
Baynton will play Actor Pete, an English method actor who becomes obsessed with "getting to the truth" of Pete Martino (Richie Moriarty's arrow-necked travel agent forever in Scout guise) when he is hired by the TV show Dumb Deaths to recreate the day Pete died.
"When I was invited to play a guest role in the CBS version of Ghosts, I was a little concerned that the two universes colliding would tear a hole in the fabric of time and space," Baynton says. "Thankfully, that didn't happen and instead I had a lot of fun playing with a bunch of very lovely funny people."
https://ew.com/tv/ghosts-cbs-season-2-preview-mathew-baynton/