Ghosts review – a silly sitcom that will make you die laughing

The new show from Horrible Histories may be the most unlikely comedy spinoff since Frasier, but what a glorious rompThe Greek playwright Aeschylus died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The Roman hunchback Diodorus expired when a doctor tried to straighten his spine. These are two of my favourite exits from Stupid Deaths, a recurring sketch in Horrible Histories. For a decade, it has skewed British children’s (and their parents’) sense of the past so much that we can&rsqu