Spookily funny haunted house sitcom

What if your new home’s previous owners hadn’t actually left but remained in situ, albeit in the spirit world? That’s the premise of a charming modern comedy, in which Charlotte Ritchie plays Alison, who has inherited a country manor and decides to renovate it with her husband Mike (Kiell SmithBynoe). The trouble is, a rag-tag group of previous residents’ ghosts aren’t happy with their plans to turn the house into a hotel. They include Mathew Baynton as a foppish poet, Lolly Adefope as an effusive Georgian lady, Simon Farnaby as a trouserless Tory MP and Katy Wix, who was burned as a witch and is still fuming. It’s frightfully funny, one step up from 1970s kids’ show Rentaghost, and a close relative of Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost. BritBox, from Thursday