Simon Farnaby on new BBC comedy Ghosts: 'It probably is a good time for lampooning a Tory MP'

Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy What do you worry about if you’re dead?” That’s the question that Simon Farnaby and his collaborators – the team with which he also made Sky 1 sitcom Yonderland and CBBC sketch show Horrible Histories – tried to answer with their new BBC1 series Ghosts, a curious comedy about a haunted house. It’s like a sheep farmer with a sheep dog trying to get all the ideas in a pen, and then you go and let the sheep out again, and they run around, and then you’ve got to bring them back, and eventually you get a nice neat flock.” The way Farnaby sees it, this technique works because the team have such trust in one another. “It’s an amazing thing we have together,” Farnaby says. So it was fun to do, I have to say.” open image in gallery The ensemble cast of BBC1 sitcom ‘Ghosts’ Last month, Farnaby was one of hundreds of thousands of protestors who flooded central London demanding another European Union referendum.