Seconded. 
I was surprised too. He does a good American accent and he hammed up the accent in Ghost which made me think he was faking. I just realized he was also in The Flight Attendant.
The last line in the episode made me laugh.
“Eh, that’s next years problem.”
My wife and I were watching High Potential last night and, thanks to this thread, I pointed out the guy and said “I heard he’s also the guy who plays the Aussie stripper who recently died on Ghosts”.
My wife, who usually has an uncanny ability to recognize actors’ faces despite whatever wigs or face-altering makeup an actor may have, said “no…freakin’…way is that the same guy! What, did you read that on your little message board you like so much?” I said, as a matter of fact, I did, and they’re almost always right. “Well, not this time!” I should have bet her something good before I brought up IMDB… 
I like High Potential. We watch so many dark difficult shows it’s good to have an entertaining palate cleanser. Ghosts falls into this category but my wife isn’t interested.
My wife didn’t really like High Potential, at first. We’re both big ‘Sunny’ fans, and I think she couldn’t quite wrap her head around Kaitlin Olson’s HP character being so different. But I think she’s warmed up to the show.
As much as I love her character on ‘Sunny’, I’m happy for Kaitlin Olson that she’s gradually been able to get away from being typecast as ‘Sweet Dee’-- on the short-lived show ‘The Mick’, her character was like 90% Sweet Dee, 10% redeeming qualities. Now her HP character is about 90/10% the other way.
/Hijack/ I do prefer that the networks airing the basket tournament put their prime-time shows on hiatus; I remember years back when they used to bump the prime-time shows until after the late night talk shows, so you had to try to guess what time they would actually air (because the games often ran over their scheduled timeslot, thus delaying everything after them) and set your VCR/DVR accordingly.
Not I. With the ubiquity of streaming I see no reason CBS can’t put their prime time shows on a streaming platform and let the basketball fans watch linearly. However I also can see that a few gaps in the schedule here and there to make 24 episodes last ~nine months. But three weeks is a bit much.
And don’t get me started on local affiliates preempting network shows for whatever bullshit they feel like airing. Years ago St. Louis’ CBS affiliate (KMOV) preempted a new Big Bang Theory for a Rams game. It was late in the season and both teams were like 4-11 so the stakes were low.
And then decades ago Springfield IL’s NBC affiliate would preempt daytime soaps for, get this, high school basketball.
Aaaannndd I just stubbed my toe climbing down from that soapbox.
I vote for the other way around- let those fanatics watch by streaming.
I agree. I understand (even though it annoyed me at the time) why the broadcast networks had to air sports when they were the only way people could watch them. But there are umpteen sports channels available now; why do the broadcast networks still have to pre-empt their schedules for sports?
Because the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is watched by tens of millions of viewers, CBS pays something like a billion dollars annually for the broadcast rights.
Because sports are by far the most watched shows on network TV. The majority of that is NFL, but women’s college basketball makes a showing. More viewers means more ad revenue.
To keep it on topic, maybe televised archery would be a hit?
Weird that that infographic doesn’t include men’s college basketball, it would definitely occupy at least ten or so spots in the Top 100.
I wonder how the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup will affect that infographic when the time comes. The days of soccer being an afterthought in the US sports landscape are over, but I doubt that the final will bring in as many viewers as the Super Bowl. But I could be very wrong. And of course, we’re veering further and further off topic which each post about sports on network TV.
Not to hijack, surprisingly the German version can be streamed in the US without a VPN. No English subtitles though. I haven’t figured how how to turn on the German subtitles.
There must be plans for an official wider release. The English subs I’ve seen seem official and not fansubs (and definitely not machine translated)
I watched the first episode of the German Ghosts. Almost a scene for scene recreation of the original. There may be such a thing as too much Ghosts.
That appears to be the pattern. Each version does a straight remake of the pilot episode then diverges from there. I think the different versions of The Office followed a similar pattern.
I saw the same pattern with the North American adaptations of Being Human and Shameless; the first episodes appeared to be using the same scripts. From there, all of these shows varied quite a bit.
I was recently in the mood to finish watching the episodes of German Ghosts.
It seems to have a smaller cast of ghosts. As the main cast it has
Poet
Pantsless
Noblewoman
Roman officer
Caveman
Peasant woman
Arrow-neck person
All similar to the UK version. It also has an occasional appearance from a creepy girl ghost, also like the UK original. These are the only ghosts that live in the house, at least shown in the first season. There seem to be no basement ghosts, for instance (there was a scene in the boiler room where they absolutely should have been featured if they were to be part of the series).
The couple isn’t married or engaged yet.
The first three episodes are too closely copied to bother much with spoilers.
Episode one: audience meets the ghosts in the opening, couple inherits the house, woman gains ghost vision in NDE, in this case through an accidental electric shock.
Episode two: woman fights the idea that she’s seeing ghosts, ghost try to scare them off, finally they accept each other.
Episode three: the episode where the poet tells of his duel to the death, with some Rashamoning of the story. Basically the episode from season two of the BBC series.
After that there is some new material.
Episode four is a pretty good original: The ghost-seeing woman character has two or three brief conversations with one of the repair workers at the manor before learning that he is a ghost. He at first doesn’t realize either, and can’t remember his death. A twist in the plot leaves the male non-husband character alone with ghosts to search for the repair worker’s body. (They communicate through pantless ghost typing emojis on an iPad.) They find the repair worker’s body in a dumpster. Later, the main cast of ghosts are discussing how the repair worker was not there and must have got sucked off (to use the US term). But then it cuts to the worker unhappy sitting in the dumpster at another job site with debris being dumped on him. He was bound to the dumpster, and had to go wherever it went.
Episode five is also original, but mediocre: The couple hosts a wedding at the manor. More or less typical TV show wedding planning mishaps happen, there is very little purpose for the ghosts in the story and it could have been an episode of pretty much any show involving hosting events.
Episode six uses parts of a couple of UK episodes, but has a couple of interesting moments: It shows arrow-neck character being killed by a practicing child and her family coming on an annual visit, taken from 1x03 of the UK show, and the couple being offered a buyout from a hotel and visiting other houses to potentially buy, taken from 1x06 of the UK show. The houses have ghosts. Two of them are interesting: one is a headless ghost body trying to find his head on the ground (like, of course, in both the UK and US shows). And for the other interesting one, just standing around in one very nice house is a Nazi officer in full uniform with the swastika armband, where ghost-seer without a word turns around and rapidly walks out of the house. (Glad to see that they didn’t ignore the whole “not all German ghosts would be great” thing.) There is a twist cliffhanger ending where another accidental shock takes away the woman’s ghost vision.
Overall, I didn’t particularly like any of the characters compared to their US or UK versions and don’t bring much of note to the franchise so far.
I seem to recall they made it clear that Robin is homo sapien. Given the location do they make the German caveman a Neanderthal?