Ghosts Casts Jay’s Parents for Super-Sized Christmas Episode
Ghosts is bringing Jay’s parents home for the holidays.
The CBS comedy has tapped Sakina Jaffrey (Snowpiercer) and Bernard White (Silicon Valley) to play Champa and Mahesh, Jay’s mother and father, in a one-hour Christmas episode airing on Thursday, Dec. 19. The network announced the news during a panel on Saturday at New York Comic-Con.
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Per the official logline, the super-sized seasonal installment sees Sam (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) hosting “Jay’s hard-to-please dad Mahesh, difficult-to-impress mom Champa and sister Bela” for the holidays as a leaky water heater threatens to ruin their plans.
Jaffrey’s Champa is described as a doting mother, but lacks “patience for her daughter-in-law Sam, whom she blames for Jay moving far away from them,” according to the official character description. “Champa runs the family’s text chain, known as the ‘Core Four,’ which Sam is desperate to be allowed onto.”
Meanwhile, though White’s Mahesh “secretly respects his son’s culinary talents, [he] still holds out hope that Jay will become an engineer instead of relying on the high-risk businesses of the B&B and the restaurant.”
CBS also announced on Saturday that McIver will make her television directorial debut on an upcoming Season 4 episode.
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