Crowded House

LAST YEAR AN UNASSUMING COMEDY series named Ghosts became a hit and surprised everybody – much to the delight of the show’s director, Tom Kingsley, who helmed its entire six-episode run and has just done the same for series two. “When we made the first series I thought it was good,” he tells Red Alert, “but then some of my coolest friends liked it, so I knew it was cool.”

So cool, in fact, that not only was it given two more series by the BBC, it was also snapped up by CBS for an’ second series here in the UK: in the end the production was simply shut down one day early, just before the government made this compulsory.