10 Actors Who Recently Nailed Great TV Performances 

The original UK version of the high spirited, high concept sitcom Ghosts features Charlotte Ritchie in the lead, a wonderful actor capable of extraordinary depth, warmth and pathos. Unfortunately the third series of that show was over by the time the fall TV season came around, so it's fortunate that the US remake of the show (the first season of which debuted on CBS in October) features the astonishingly versatile Rose McIver in the equivalent role.

Both shows share the same premise. A perky husband and wife inherit a creaky mansion from a distant relative. After a near death experience, the wife finds herself able to see and hear the many ghosts that find themselves stuck haunting the rotten old pile. In fact, she can't turn it off...

Fans of the CW's perennially underrated iZombie know what to expect from McIver, who absolutely nailed roughly a dozen personality variations on brain-eating medical examiner Liv Moore a year over five seasons. For the rest of you poor fools: you're in for a treat.

Despite the ensemble of immensely watchable actors playing immensely watchable oddballs (a trope of recent single-camera comedy) Ghosts feels like a throwback to a kind of sitcom that's been unfashionable for decades, the sort of thing that Marvel's WandaVision had so much fun lampooning. McIver's Sam is a throwback to the female leads of old: think Bewitched and I Love Lucy; think I Dream Of Jeannie and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

It takes a certain kind of actor to play the straight banana to such a talented crew playing so many eccentric, scene-stealing characters and still somehow remain on top of the heap. McIver makes it look easy, her natural charm layering beautifully with Sam's boundless optimism and tireless strength as she finds a way to navigate the weird new family her life has thrust upon her.