Ghost Writing

Far be it from me to suggest that BBC America’s forthcoming paranormal drama, The Dead Beat--about “two cops, one dead and one alive, [who] become a reluctant team, working from leads in the world of the dead to track down killers in the world of the living”--isn’t exactly a new idea. But doesn’t that description make it sound an awful lot like the 1969-1970 British series Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)? Hey, I’m just saying ...