Title: Ghost Hunters
Lead Investigators: Jason Hawes and Grant
Wilson
Co-Executive Producers: Rob Katz, Peter
Zasuly, Alan David
Executive Producers: Craig Piligian, Thom
Thayer,
Running Time: 44 minutes without
commercials
Media: SCI FI Channel Original Series (NTSC
DVD Screener)
Premiere: Wednesday, October 6, 2004, at
9pm (ET/PT)
Network: SCI FI Channel (Check your local
cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At Time Of Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
The term real life “Ghostbusters” is not exactly what I’d call “Ghost Hunters,” but they might be the closest team you will ever find on SCI FI’s “Alternative Reality TV.” Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson are the lead investigators of a not for profit investigative unit they call “TAPS.” With the help of their team, which includes case manager Brian Harnois, interviewer Donna Lacroix, demonologists Carl Johnson and Keith Johnson, and investigator Steve Gonzales, TAPS will travel miles to try and disprove evidence of paranormal activity because if they can’t debunk it then maybe they’ll be able to find evidence of real afterlife activity. The aspect that I really like of these people are that they are all normal human beings with jobs and families outside of their work with TAPS. Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson are plumbers by trade and when they check out a possible haunting, they have to take off from work and leave their wives and kids behind along with other members to investigate claims in which 80 percent turn out to be explainable without having anything to do with ghosts and whatnot.
I enjoyed the human
interest on this series because these are people following their passion, but
they are not doing it for the money. I’m sure anything they might get is
appreciated, but these are people who really put it on the line if anything else
because they believe in what they are doing. In the series premiere, one of
their staff members loses his job because of his extracurricular activities
interfered with his ability to show up to his job. All together I found myself
equally interested in seeing how these guys balance their lives with their
passions and I admire the dignity and professionalism they endeavor towards so
support TAPS and tune in when “Ghost Hunters” premieres as a part of a new
block of “Alternative Reality” programming beginning Wednesday, October 6,
2004, at 9pm only on SCI FI.
© Copyright 2004 By
Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.