Before Brandon Scott Jones was fought the British on Ghosts, he believed in Anarchy in the UK in Sex, Drugs and Hard Rock Cafe. He looks the same now as he did when he was 25 in that 2010 short.
Danielle Pinnock has been acting for over five years in front of the camera, and this year she landed her big break with Ghosts on CBS. She plays a Jazz singer from the Roarin’ Twenties who died in the house and has been haunting it ever since.
The show is this season’s biggest hit because it keeps finding new viewers every week instead of losing them. Case in point, on December 2nd, an episode that focused on her character Alberta aired. People loved it so much that lots of people found it online after its original airing.
“Bawling my eyes out. The ‘Alberta’s Fan’ episode of @GhostsCBS got the Seven Day Playback Ratings…and it received the Highest Ratings for an Episode to Date. 8.3 million views! Y’all,” Pinnock wrote. “I couldn’t have done it without y’all.”
How many actors care enough about acting these days that they would cry tears of joy over amazing ratings for an episode that is centered around them? Not many. That is why I adore Ghosts so much because she is not the only actor who feels this way about their work on the program.
Another great thing about Ghosts is that the cast is an ensemble, but they also shine as individuals. Pinnock and her character stand out, as did her episode. That is why people went out of their way to find it. If you haven’t seen Alberta’s Fan, you can watch it on Paramount+. Or you can watch it on December 23rd when CBS airs a five-episode Ghostmas marathon. Even though we have up until the 15th to vote for our favorite episodes, I am pretty sure it will be up there.
Not only is her episode great, but all of them are. So. discover the show that more and more people are falling in love with it every week. I know you will love the series as much as Pinnock and I do.
Oh, and if I were Pinnock, I would make sure to flush her toenail clippings from now on. If that makes no sense to you, then you need to watch Ghosts. I promise you won’t be disappointed! It is the show we all needed this year and didn’t know it.
If you ask a fan of CBS’s Ghosts what their favorite episode is, then they will tell you all ten of the ones that have aired so far. However, CBS wants us to limit that number down to five. So they are asking us to tell them on their Twitter page, which ones you want to see on December 23rd for the Ghostmas mini-marathon by the 15th. The winners will be announced on the 18th.
I say we should pick the best five, so we can get more people to watch the most enjoyable new sitcom in a really long time. Long enough for the last one to be a ghost. See what I did there?
Anyways, it is not about me? It is about Ghosts! Today, I spoke to the cast, Rose McIver, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Rebecca Wisocky, Sheila Carrasco, Danielle Pinnock, Roman Zaragoza, and Devan Chandler Long, along with EPs Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, at the CBS TCA Winter Press Day, and they told me their favorite episodes. I will tell you what they said on the day of the marathon. But I will give you a little preview, and that is that McIver said it is the season 2 premiere because that means they got picked up for another one. I kind of agree with her, but I would have preferred she said season 10. Something I am sure pantless Grodman might disagree with after season three.
.But that’s a long ways away. Let’s focus on the upcoming episodes after the marathon. Soon we will not be playing, guess which ghost will not be appearing on that episode. That is because they will all be in it for the second half of the season. We are going to find out how and why Trevor died with no pants on. And the best part is we will meet Sasapiss’ (Roman Zaragoza) dad, and he will be played by Roman’s real dad Gregory Zaragoza. How cool is that?>
There is so much to look forward to, and we can only do that if we get more people to watch. So, let’s pick our favorite episodes and tell everyone we know to watch on the 23rd! What else are we going to do as we prepare for Christmas over the next two days? Let’s do something we like before we go into family hell.
Tonight at 9p on CBS, one of the Ghosts possesses Jay on what is a very important day for him.
Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) are going to meet with a wedding planner to possibly hold a wedding at the mansion. What could go wrong? When the electrician cancels on them again, Jay decides to do the work himself. He doesn’t know what he is doing, so he gets electrocuted. Then he winds up falling back on Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky), causing her to get stuck inside of him.
Well, if you are a ghost who hasn’t been in a living body in like 150 years, what would you do? Exactly what Hetty does and takes over completely.
However, that is bad because the wedding planner is there, and he wants to be served a meal from Jay. But Hetty just wants to enjoy the ingredients that she has never tried.
Meanwhile, the other Ghosts are trying to help Sam come up with a way to free Jay of Hetty. Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones) says the same thing happened to him, and they did an exorcism to free him. So Sam makes some phone calls, and no one is available to help her.
Pete (Richie Moriarty), Trevor (Asher Grodman), Alberta (Danielle Pinnock), and Sasappis (Roman Zaragoza) are jealous of Hetty. But they are still trying to help Sam and Jay stop the wedding planner from leaving. That is when the Ghosts tell Flower (Sheila Carrasco) to do what she does to stop him.
It works, but Hetty is still in Jay, and she is not letting go. Will Jay finally have control of his body before the couple’s bed and breakfast is blacklisted before it is even opened for business?
You are not going to want to miss this show’s best episode to date, and they have all been phenomenal. And phenomenal is what Ambudkar is tonight as he takes on Wisocky’s character’s personality. There were times I forgot he was still him because it really was like he possessed his co-star’s personality.
Writer Rishi Chitkara understood the assignment and gave us an episode we will be watching over and over again. It is so rare that a program delivers an episode as enjoyable as this one. But Ghosts keeps doing it every week, and tonight is the sweetest one of them all.
So tune in, fall in love with it, and then watch all the episodes while all of the shows are on hiatus for winter break.
Today the Critic Choice Association announced who they nominated for their awards show that airs on January 9th on The CW and TBS. One of the nominees is Ghosts’ Brandon Scott Jones for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
So, how did his fellow castmates react to this news? They had a jolly good time…without him. Basically, the same as before he was nominated.
Just joking. This is what Scott’s co-star Asher Grodman wrote with the video he posted, “THE hilarious and wonderful @brandonscottjones is now nominated for a @criticschoice award for his work in @ghostscbs …and things will never be the same. Congratulations Brandon!”
Of course, this video was just for fun. Anyone who watches the sitcom can tell how splendidly the cast all get along on the set. If you haven’t watched the Thursday night program on CBS at 9p, then this week is a good time to start. This week’s episode is the best one yet, and all of them are so enjoyable to watch over and over again. Believe me. I have seen each ep at least three times.
