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Still Here

A supernatural family comedy about a widow, three kids, and the dead husband who remains visible inside the house. The miracle is real. The problem is that he still wants a vote.

FormatEight episode half-hour series
LaneSupernatural family comedy
Core ImageA warm house with one person too many
Core

Love can keep people close. It can also keep them stuck.

Maggie Keane is newly widowed and trying to build one normal day. Inside the house, Ben is still there: visible to Maggie and the kids, invisible to everyone else, bound to the property, and convinced his presence is obviously good news.

Visual Rules

The ordinary world keeps misreading the impossible one.

The show should feel like suburban family life after a death: casseroles, forms, bills, neighbors, school calls, and grief voice. Then a dead husband comments from the worst place in the room.

Casserole Cream
Lamp Warmth
Old House Green
Quiet Grief
Set

The House

Home, shrine, trap, marriage, memory, and battleground. It is warm, crowded, and emotionally over-occupied.

Object

The Rule Board

Maggie's attempt to turn grief into household operations. Ben violates it almost immediately.

Sound

Small Haunting

Lights, doors, temperature, electronics, the dog, and one unreliable drawer. Nothing big enough to solve adulthood.

Family

Five people. Four alive. One marriage still arguing.

Lead

Maggie Keane

Sharp, practical, allergic to pity, and trying to create one normal moment in a house that will not let her be alone.

Ghost

Ben Keane

Warm, funny, intrusive, and wrong about the difference between being present and being helpful.

Oldest

Nora Keane

Fifteen, dry, guarded, and unwilling to perform gratitude just because the impossible thing happened.

Middle

Eli Keane

Eleven, quick, strategic, and tempted to treat ghost dad like a family resource.

Youngest

June Keane

Six, literal, bright, and publicly dangerous because Dad is home and everyone else is being weird.

Outside

Tessa, Linda, Paul

A friend who treats Maggie normally, a grieving mother-in-law, and a neighbor who makes future life concrete.

Rules

The supernatural stays practical.

Visible to family only. Everyone else sees grief, stress, and strange behavior.
Bound to the property. The house becomes the arena and the problem.
Small effects only. Ben can disrupt privacy, not fix money, school, dating, or loneliness.
Emotion affects power. His haunting gets less reliable when he is honest and more disruptive when he avoids the truth.
Proof Path

Best first proof: the family dinner.

A contained proof should stage Maggie trying to host one normal dinner while Ben keeps helping from inside the room. The scene can show the whole engine: grief, comedy, secrecy, parenting, marriage, and the impossible problem of loving someone who cannot stop staying.