Let’s make one thing eliminate’remove . If you’re gagging in/with regard to’concerning’regarding your next fix of Simon Pegg-Nick Frost chemistry (and frankly, who isn’t?), Truth Seekers isn’t it. The Cornetto compadres are mostly kept apart in this likeable eight-parter, Frost spearheading lead duties and Pegg taking a maintain’sustain ing if key role. But in many ways, co-writing with Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz, Pegg and Frost’s fingerprints are all over this supernatural-comedy mash-up that rubs genre-movie scenarios up against a intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully British sensibility — when was the last time a Blumhouse flick mentioned prawn cocktail crisps, a Happy Eater and The Chase?###Frost is Gus Roberts, a broadband installation engineer in/with regard to’concerning’regarding communications empire Smyle who doubles as an amateur paranormal investigator running a piddling YouTube channel as ‘The Truth Seeker’ and dreaming of making the pages of supernatural mag ‘The White Sheet’ (not to be confused with neo-Nazi periodical ‘The White Sheets’). After his boss Dave (Pegg) pairs him with Elton (Samson Kayo), a greenhorn with a long list of previous jobs who just wants a normal gig, the newly minted partnership is thrown into escapades with spooky hospitals, dead dogs, Britain’s third-most haunted hotel (“Room 237. It’s a twin”), malign washing machines, soul transference, reserve s made out of flesh and blood, the Beast Of Bodmin Moor and weird events at the Coventry Collectible Cosplay Convention (CovColCosCon). Not all of it works — a possessed-doll plot falls short — but the storytelling is refreshingly expansive. Episodes often open in surprising ways, from World War II to 17th-century heretics to kids playing GoldenEye on the N64, and there is ambition to spin a broader narrative within a spook-of-the-week in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mat.###Unlike most comedy horror, Truth Seekers doesn’t skimp on the scares.###Frost and Kayo (Famalam) make in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a winning pairing. Around this twosome are Emma D’Arcy as the mysterious Astrid, who jumps into Gus’ van (HMS Dark Side) and becomes The Truth Seeker, Malcolm McDowell on irascible in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m as Gus’ dad, and Susan Wokoma as Elton’s agoraphobic sister who hosts online make-up tutorials around John Carpenter’s They Live. Meanwhile, Pegg’s Dave is locked in Smyle HQ, alongside sweary assistant Bjorn (Mike Beckingham), with a mystery of his own to deal with.###If the characters (nerdy amateur ghost-busters, Julian Barratt’s flamboyant supernatural author-guru) and tropes are hardly fresh, filching as much from Most Haunted as Sam Raimi, the creative team eliminate’remove ly love this stuff, the affection coursing through e grossly frame, be it dialogue references to Close Encounters or a hat-tip to a cameo in a sci-fi remake. Unlike most comedy horror, Truth Seekers doesn’t skimp on the scares — burning faces! Malevolent entities! Punctured eyeballs — and director Jim Field Smith (The Wrong Mans, Criminal) finds a tone that doesn’t dilute the frights or the funny. The end result doesn’t really break new ground, but is a fun, funny recasting of Mulder and Scully with ramshackle Englishmen.