Ghosts returned for a second series in the saner pre-watershed slot of 8.30pm. I don’t know what BBC One was thinking last time scheduling it at 9.30pm: it’s hardly Fleabag. Plus if anyone can be trusted to do a decent double entendre that adults will get but kids probably won’t, it is this fine and much-loved former Horrible Histories team.
As evidenced when Jim Howick’s character, Pat, a dead scout leader with an arrow through his neck, bellowed: “Oh no! Fanny’s exposed.” Fanny being the name of the ghost of a posh old lady (Martha Howe-Douglas). See? No smelling salts required here. Ditto when the ghost hunters wanted “a few
