Peyton List and nine of her School Spirits castmates are back around the table. Paramount+ has released photos from the season 4 table read of its ghost-filled high school drama, confirming the show is in production, though the streamer still has not set a premiere date.
Production on the fourth season began in August 2026, according to Paramount+, five months after the service renewed the series following the season 3 finale in March.
Who was at the table
The streamer’s photos show ten familiar faces, grouped here by where their characters stand:
- The lead: Maddie Nears, still played by List
- Her living friends: Simon (Kristian Ventura), Nicole (Kiara Pichardo), Xavier (Spencer MacPherson) and Claire (Rainbow Wedell)
- The ghosts: Rhonda (Sarah Yarkin), Charley (Nick Pugliese), Quinn (Ci Hang Ma) and Yuri (Miles Elliot)
- The villainous teacher-ghost Mr. Martin, again played by Josh Zuckerman
Two names fans keep asking about are missing from that list. Milo Manheim, who plays 1980s football ghost Wally Clark, and Jennifer Tilly, who joined season 3 as the new superintendent, Deborah Hunter-Price, do not appear in the table-read lineup Paramount+ published. That does not rule either of them out, since a table read is a single day and casting news often trickles out later. But the streamer has not confirmed either return, so treat any claim that they are back as unverified for now.
Behind the camera, co-creators Megan and Nate Trinrud return as co-showrunners and executive producers. List, who has starred as Maddie since 2023, is again an executive producer, and Oliver Goldstick comes back as a consultant.
Where season 3 left the ghosts
The season 3 finale rewrote the show’s rules. The doors the ghosts thought led to the afterlife actually open onto a strange forest, a second in-between world. The ghosts can now leave the grounds of Split River High, and Quinn and Rhonda discovered they can briefly make themselves seen and heard by living students. Meanwhile, Alfred Van Heidt, a corrupt politician’s spirit that has been hopping between bodies since the early 1900s, is now inside Maddie’s mother, Sandra (Maria Dizzia).
When season 4 could arrive: the pattern so far
Paramount+ has not named a date, but the show’s own history offers a guide. Each of the first three seasons ran eight episodes, and the gaps have settled into a rhythm:
Season 1 premiered on March 9, 2023. Season 2 followed on January 30, 2025, and season 3 on January 28, 2026, ten months after its March 2025 renewal. Season 4 was renewed in March 2026, so the same ten-month gap would point to roughly January 2027, the same late-January slot the last two seasons used. That is our reading of past dates, not an announcement.
Paramount+ is also changing around the show. Its parent company has said HBO Max and Paramount+ will launch as one bundle in early 2027. For more on TV renewals, see our report on Netflix renewing Nobody Wants This for season 4, or browse our entertainment section.
All three existing seasons of School Spirits are streaming on every Paramount+ plan now, 24 episodes in all.
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