The six writers behind the BBC sitcom Ghosts brought their first feature film to Curzon Mayfair for its world premiere, nine days before it reached British cinemas.
The feature film of the BBC sitcom Ghosts had its world premiere at Curzon Mayfair on Wednesday 14 October 2026. Charlotte Ritchie, who plays Alison Cooper, walked the carpet with Lolly Adefope.
The film belongs to Them There, the comedy collective of Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond. They met on the CBBC sketch series Horrible Histories, then made the Sky sitcom Yonderland and the 2015 film Bill.
Ghosts ran on BBC One for five series, from April 2019 to Christmas Day 2023. It was nominated for the Scripted Comedy BAFTA in 2021, and CBS remade it for American television.
Simon Hynd directed the film for BBC Film and Monumental Pictures at West Horsley Place in Surrey. In the story an amateur séance goes wrong. Julian, the ghost of an MP, leaves the grounds for the first time in decades in the body of a teenage ghost hunter, Jack.
The six writers return in their own roles beside Ritchie, Adefope, who plays the Georgian ghost Kitty, and Kiell Smith-Bynoe. Scott Ellis Watson plays Jack, and Lionsgate opens the film in British and Irish cinemas on Friday 23 October.