Rose McIver says Sam will be briefly absent early in ‘Ghosts’ season 6

Rose McIver says Sam will be “a little absent” early in ‘Ghosts’ season 6. McIver said she had been preoccupied and would return soon; a photo of her holding a tiny hand appeared to hint at her second child’s birth, which she did not confirm.

Season 6 opens later in October with two back-to-back half-hour episodes that make up the series’ first hour-long Halloween special. A Christmas special is scheduled for Dec. 10, while the season’s main run is set to begin in the new year.