Ghosts is adding some new characters for Season 4.
Mary Holland and Dean Norris are set to guest star in the series. Holland has joined for the recurring role of Patience — a character that has been highly anticipated since last season — and Norris will play Frank, Samantha’s (Rose McIver) father, CBS revealed during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday morning.
Patience is the ghost of a Puritan woman who died in the late 1600s. While alive, she was exceedingly severe and judgmental even by Puritan standards. As such, she was expelled from her village for “being a bit too much.”
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After being dead a couple hundred years, Patience was inadvertently abandoned (by Revolutionary War ghost Isaac) underground near the mansion and has become a feral creature “roaming the dirt” since 1895. In the season three finale, Patience reemerged from the dirt to kidnap Isaac and dragged him back to her lair. In the premiere of season four, we will meet Patience and find out her plans for our dear Isaac.
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Meanwhile, CBS describes Frank as “kindly and well-meaning,” arriving at Woodstone for his first visit in years, along with his new girlfriend. Frank and Sam have struggled to stay close since Frank divorced Sam’s mom when Sam was 10. On the surface, Frank and Sam are cordial, but deep-down Sam resents her father for being largely absent from her life. After decades of insisting “everything was fine,” Sam is finally compelled to confront these feelings when a new ghost at Woodstone forces her into an awkward conversation with her dad.
Ghosts stars McIver alongside Utkarsh Ambudkar as a couple that inherits a rundown mansion in upstate New York that they decide to convert into a bed & breakfast. After a near-death experience, McIver’s character is suddenly able to see the ghosts that inhabit the house. Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Danielle Pinnock, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza, Sheila Carrasco, Rebecca Wisocky and Devan Chandler Long also star.
The series is executive produced by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who also serve as the showrunners.
Richie Keen, Matthew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas, Alison Carpenter, Debra Hayward, and Alison Owen (Monumental Television) and Angie Stephenson (BBC Studios) also executive produce. Ghosts is produced by CBS Studios in association with Lionsgate Television and BBC Studios Los Angeles Productions.
Season 4 will debut on October 17, just in time for Halloween, on CBS.