their business, beginning a planned story arc for the first series in which the Rentaghost team must scare off building developers to save their office/home. A young Lisa McCune played Julia, a character who visits the agency mistakenly believing them to be living people who can exorcise her haunted apartment, and ends up working as their secretary after they help her chase her poltergeist away anyway. However the pilot did not sell, with some concerns over appropriateness of dark tone of the series aimed at young children, and plans for the series were cancelled. In September 2008, it was reported that the show could be returning to television after the rights to the programme were obtained by the UK production company RDF. However, no new show was forthcoming. Deadline reported in December 2010 that "Warner Bros had acquired the rights to RentaGhost and was going to develop it into a Beetlejuice-style afterlife feature comedy vehicle for Russell Brand as Fred Mumford." However, in October 2011, it was reported that Ben Stiller had now been signed for the project. Night at the Museum writers Tom Lennon and Robert Ben Garant had been hired to write the script, reuniting the two writers with Stiller. See also List of ghost films References External links British Film Institute Screen Online Rentaghost the Musical Rentaghost Fansite (via Wayback Archive) Rentaghost: from worst to best 1976 British television series debuts 1984 British television series endings 1970s British sitcoms 1980s British sitcoms BBC television sitcoms BBC children's television shows British supernatural television shows English-language television shows Ghosts in television Television shows set in London 1970s British children's television series 1980s British children's television series