Sitcoms that build a premise on a rule tend to eventually break that rule, and the announcement that a single episode will change everything is the standard way of advertising that moment. Whether the promise is fulfilled depends on how the break is handled. The best examples keep the comedy intact while altering the stakes, so the show feels renewed rather than replaced. The worst abandon the structure that made them work and spend a season explaining the new arrangement. What makes a supernatural comedy particularly well suited to this manoeuvre is that its premise already accepts absurdity, which gives the writers room to make a big change without demanding that the audience believe something new. Fans should watch how the supporting characters respond, since their reactions determine whether the shift feels like a story or a gimmick. Either way the episode will be discussed, and discussion is precisely what the marketing was designed to produce. Whether the change sticks will depend on how the writers handle the episodes that follow, not on the promise itself.
When asked how the ghosts and the cast are dealing with having Kyle/Ben around full-time, Wisocky laughed, “Oh,we're ruthless with Kyle, even more than Sam, I think.And I love the way Hetty objectifies him so shamelessly as well.” Despite the ghosts' unabashed, bratty behavior with their new living butler, Wisocky was quick to explain that Feldman and his character are “a wonderful addition to the family.” While no one can replace the rom-com dynamic between Sam and Jay, Wisocky has enjoyed watching Feldman and Ambudkar find their own rhythm together in Season 6. “It's really cool to have the two dads attempt to be in charge while we're running ragged all over both of them. It's been a lot of fun,” said Wisocky. “We miss Rose so much, but Ben is a great guy and so good at his job.It's been kind of seamless.”
Answering the same question, Grodman joked that “Ben's a lot to handle. He's a bit of a monster,” before confirming that in reality “he's lovely.” WhileFeldman has big shoes to fill after five years of McIver setting the tone and leading the cast, Grodman says he “does it beautifully, and he's so funny, and just such a great teammate. And he's smart; he has a great sense of humor.He brings in this fresh energy. It’s like having a new kid at school.It's just fun.” Having Feldman around has also renewed the energy on set, as Grodman explained, “We’re also all so used to the rhythms of this, it's exciting to have a new perspective in the kitchen with us.”
‘Ghosts’ Season 6 Wouldn’t Be Possible Without the Crew
While Feldman’s presence has certainly spiced things up forGhosts, he’s joining an ensemble that knows it takes a village to make a television show truly come to life. Beyond the wonderfully talented cast,Ghostsis created by a massive team of artists and craftspeople. When asked about the people we never see on screen who make her job 100 times easier, Wisocky had plenty to say about the show’s fantastic crew in Montréal. “Carmen Alieand her entire team in the costume department, most especially my dresser,Sophie Godard, are superheroes. […]Zoë Sakellaropoulois one of the finest production designers working in the business, and if nothing else, she should have received an Emmy nomination by now,” Wisocky told Collider. She continued, shouting out the show’s Director of PhotographyMichel St-Martin, calling him “a genius, [who makes] our show look like a movie.”
Wisocky also noted that while we’ve heard theGhostscast talk about being one big happy family, they really do love each other that much, and that love extends to the crew. “It extends beyond another 250 people that surround us that we work with every day, largely led also by the AD department, the assistant directors who keep our shit together and deal with sometimes impossible circumstances with schedule changes and sometimes late scripts and people becoming unavailable or people being sick.What they manage to do is an art form in and of itself,” she told Collider. She went on to name some of the most essential team members bringingGhoststo life, saying:
Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in return.
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is finding out what is over there.
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the people are where it all gets complicated.
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as everybody kept telling you.
“Our head of the AD department is a woman namedLaurence Mercier, and we would be sunk without her. And our 1st AD isMatt Jemus; we would be sunk without him. We have a script supervisor namedJess Leewho gets to direct this season; we just finished the episode that she directed, and it's so wonderful that she's been promoted from within. She's our first Canadian director on the show as well! She did an excellent job. There's a woman namedGloria Cool, who takes care of all the ghost babies, all the ghost muppets, gets us coffee, and makes sure that we know where we're going, and she's invaluable. Saying [she gets] us coffee makes it sound like such a small job, but it's not;she completely holds all of us together in so many ways.She's invaluable.
There are so many people. We love them all: the camera department, the sound department. I mean, it's a very intimate relationship doing this together with 250 people, andit requires that everyone really give a damn and be really good at their job, both individually and together as an ensemble.And they really are; we are very lucky. Every single one of them deserves a shout-out, and they know that. They know how much we love them and value them too.”
‘Ghosts’ Is Officially Raising the Stakes for Season 6’s Christmas Special
Earlier this year atGhosts' San Diego Comic-Con panel — hosted by Collider’sPerri Nemiroff—co-showrunnerJoe Wisemanconfirmed that the upcoming annual Christmas special would be a riff onDie Hardafter referencingIt’s a Wonderful LifeandA Christmas Carollast season. Speaking aboutwhat to expect from the next two episodesahead of the show’s weekly return in 2027, Wisocky said, “Utkarsh looks really buff; [he] managed to turn it into a tank top moment that’s for sure.” Both Wisocky and Grodman confirmed that the episode is“very high stakes,”with Wisocky saying,“lots of people are in peril. The stakes are perhaps the highest that they have ever been.And I don't say that lightly.”
Grodman told Collider, “When I heard we were doingDie Hard, I was like,‘Well, that sounds like Trevor's gonna be involved in that.’ And he is, and he is both an agent of solutions and absolute chaos.” What kind of chaos ensues remains to be seen, but Wisocky teased that “there will besomething that happens that completely changes the world.That sounds like something general. I can't get more specific, but it's true.” Continuing, she hinted that “there's an opportunity for one of the ghosts to go to town with a special skill that is really enjoyable and was very enjoyable to all of us.There's a claustrophobic aspect to some of it.It's very action-packed.”
Shouting out the show’s incredibly talented crew once more, Wisocky had high praise for Alie and Sakellaropoulo’s work on the special, and especially St-Martin’s work as the DP. “I think our show looks like a film. And that is largely because of his photography. He and his whole team are really remarkable artists, but he's one of the best DPs I've ever worked with. So big, big shout out to him, andthere's a lot more fun stuff that he gets to do as a DP, given the fact that this is kind of an action-packed episode,” said Wisocky. Grodman meanwhile, also had some lovely things to say about his co-stars, saying, “It's a very talented cast, andsome people in this cast really get to flex some muscles in that episodeand get to do a lot of transforming.” While both stars remained tight-lipped on the impending ghost-on-ghost possession that Wiseman also revealed atSDCC, Grodman did confirm that having Kyle around may finally give Trevor someone to celebrate Hanukkah with. “There is a little bit of Hanukkah in the episode. And yes,there is a Trevor/Kyle connection, and it's a fun one. I'll leave it at that.”
‘Ghosts’ Will Officially Cross the 100th Episode Milestone in Season 6
While we’ll only have the two holiday specials to get fans through the end of 2026,Ghostswill return full-time in early 2027 and, with Season 6, Episode 6, will markthe 100th episode of the show’s tenure on CBS. At New York Comic-Con, Wiseman and the cast revealed that not only would the episode see the ghosts’ favorite reality show, “It’s Getting Hot in Here,” coming to film at the mansion, but that the episode would include appearances fromSurvivoralumParvati Shallowas the host, and returning favoriteMatt Walshas Hetty’s demonic ex-husband, Elias. When Wisocky found out Shallow would be part of the episode,she was overjoyed as aSurvivorfan. “I'm a bigSurvivorhead, as you know. I was so thrilled to do thoseSurvivorpromos [in 2024]. And so when I heard that Parvati was coming, I was so excited. She had a lot of fun, and she was very indulgent with my bajillion questions that I asked aboutSurvivorand how it works.”
Teasing the return of Elias, who typically shows up at least once a season to throw a wrench in the world of Woodstone and sow havoc amongst the living and the dead, Wisocky said, “The fact that, of course, horrible,horrible Elias is going to be there to rain on our parade.He throws a stick in the works, of course, but it was fun.” Continuing, she told Collider: “I think it's very cool.It's very meta that it's a show about TV, and it's our 100th episode, and it just highlights that our [the ghosts] favorite show is just so very lowbrow, but we treat it like such high art. I mean,the stakes for us with that show are very high, for Thor, especially. Devan Chandler Long has a very, very funny episode for the 100th with his relationship to the making of this reality show. It was a lot of fun.”
Ghostswill return for a 1-hour Christmas special on December 10, followed by a mid-season premiere for the rest of Season 6 in 2027. Stay tuned at Collider for more, and check out our full episode ofSet Storieswith Grodman and Wisocky below.
