Ghost Town

Ghost Town is an animated fantasy comedy series created by BaconMatthew for Dessin. It follows Steve Langdon, a sales accountant who dies in a car accident and is shocked to awaken in a civilised society of ghosts. The series was produced by Deep Fried Productions and premiered on October 31, 2015 as part of Dessin's Spookfest 2K15 event, becoming the network's first original series. The series has received generally positive reviews and has become Dessin's most popular original series, averaging 0.2-0.3 million viewers per episode.

The series has currently aired four seasons with a fifth slated for a late 2021 release, and a sixth was announced in 2020.

Premise
Steve Langdon is a bigshot sales accountant who loves his fairly mundane life. On September 3, 2015 Steve dies after being hit by a bus and is shocked to awaken in a civilised society of ghosts. He soon befriends Tug, a caveman who has lived over 1 million years as a ghost, and they get into various mishaps and escapades in the land of the dead.

Cast

 * David Herman as Steve Langdon, a recently deceased sales accountant overwhelmed by the ghost world.
 * BaconMatthew as:
 * Tug, a caveman who has seen society progress for over 1 million years since his death in 999,000 B.C.
 * Death, the ruler of the ghost world who is actually very sweet and kind, in a comic contrast to his usual portrayal in media.
 * Liliana Mumy as Eve Bailey, Steve's girlfriend whom Steve and Tug set out to find.

Episodes
Main article: List of Ghost Town episodes

Early development
The series is adapted from an animated short produced by BaconMatthew in 1995. The short was titled Dead Serious and features the concept of a ghost society explored in the series, but with mostly different characters. BaconMatthew expressed interest in basing a series on the short as early as 2003, and he pitched the idea unsuccessfully to a few networks before the project was shelved.

In late 2013 as the development of Dessin, a channel run by BaconMatthew's production company Deep Fried Productions was well under way, BaconMatthew began to work on developing the series under the working title Dead Serious (the same as the original short) to air as a Dessin original, so the channel could air original content instead of solely reruns.

Casting
As with all of his creations, BaconMatthew voices several characters in the series, most notably the deuteragonist Tug and recurring character Death, as well as various othet roles. David Herman was the first to be cast for the series, as Steve Langdon as well as various other roles. Contrastingly, Steve's late girlfriend Eve was one of the last characters to be cast, with Liliana Mumy eventually being cast after BaconMatthew was impressed by her performance in the web series Bravest Warriors.

Animation
The series is storyboarded and animatics are produced at Deep Fried Productions, with the full animation being produced at Mercury Filmworks in Canada.

Broadcast
Main article: Ghost Town/Broadcast

The series was originally planned to premiere on November 13, 2015, but the first episode was brought forward to air as a sneak peek on Halloween night as part of Dessin's Spookfest 2K15 event. The rest of the series began airing on November 20, 2015.

The series airs on Adult Swim in the United States, and CTV Comedy Channel in Canada.

The series also airs on the versions of Dessin broadcasting in France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Poland.

Ratings
Ghost Town is a ratings success and is currently Dessin's most popular show. The sneak peek during the popular Spookfest event attracted an audience of 0.24 million, and this audience grew to 0.25 million for the premiere of the second episode on November 20, 2015.

Since then, the ratings have been consistent and rarely dip below 0.2 million and typically peak at 0.3 million.

Critical reception
Ghost Town has received fairly positive reviews, with praise for its plot and humour. The series has a rating of 7.8/10 on IMDb based on 15,384 ratings. It has an average Tomatometer of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on individual reviews of each season.

Home media
All four seasons that have aired have been released on DVD and Blu-ray. A box set containing the first four seasons was released on April 13, 2020.