Many great action movies never saw the sequels and the franchises they deserved, resulting in some surprisingly standalone classics. The action genre is home to some of the most consistently high budgets in Hollywood, and when playing with such stakes, studios demand clear and incontrovertible proof that a franchise is profitable. Modest box office success, even when attached to films with massive stars and promising cinematic worlds, is rarely sufficient to justify greenlighting a sequel. Moreover, even sequels to films that are massive successes at the box office can wither in development hell before being canceled.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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