Syfy Ghost Hunters Special 2009
Posted on | November 1, 2009 | 1 Comment
Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, stars of Syfy’s “Ghost Hunters” and co-founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) have transcended the paranormal entertainment niche and become lasting pop-culture mainstays.
Not bad for two guys with day jobs as plumbers who spent more than 20 years of free time in the company of scared homeowners with spectral squatters.
The show, which received 3.1 million total viewers for the fifth season’s Oct. 22 episode, is touted by Syfy as the top paranormal investigative series on TV.
It more than doubled the audience totals for last week’s new episodes of the competing paranormal series “Ghost Lab” on the Discovery Channel and “Extreme Paranormal” on A& E.
Hawes and Wilson also are the busiest men in the ghost business.
The “Ghost Hunters” franchise includes two series spin-offs, “Ghost Hunters International” and the new “Ghost Hunters Academy” (premiering Nov. 11); the flagship show’s upcoming 100th episode; live speaking engagements and ticketed investigations that draw hundreds of fans.
Plus, there are appearances on “The Today Show” and “Larry King Live; ” and a second book, “Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of The Atlantic Paranormal Society,” the follow-up to the 2007 “New York Times” bestselling “Ghost Hunting: True Stories of Unexplained Phenomena from The Atlantic Paranormal Society.”
As far as how they manage to fit so much into a grueling production schedule, Hawes jokes over the phone from his Rhode Island home, “It’s a balancing act but isn’t there like 28 hours in every day?”
Wilson agrees.
“We’re living the paranormal investigator’s dream,” Wilson adds, also speaking from Rhode Island. “We’re investigating these great places and you don’t necessarily have to foot the bill all the time.”
Hawes and Wilson maintain a gee-whiz awareness of the long strange trip it’s been from plumbing to ghost hunting on a major cable network. But there is still plumbing to be done.
“We still plumb. It’s just when production goes on hiatus, we go back to our normal lives,” Hawes says.
Those normal lives include wives and a combined ghost-hunting brood of eight kids. And the duo both says those families is what all the work is for.
“That’s what happens when they’re requesting 27 episodes a year, it’s nonstop. It looks like we’re at a place for six hours, we’re there numerous days.”
While neither is complaining, the demanding schedule takes a toll on how and when they can be with their kids. That’s the background to the decision to not take part in a live Halloween night investigation this year.
Syfy will instead air a five-episode “interactive best-of” — as Wilson describes it — at 7 p.m. tonight with members of “Academy,” hosted by Josh Gates of Syfy’s “Destination Truth” and supplemented by pre-recorded segments of Hawes and Wilson.
“We’ve been asking for four years to be able to stay home with our families,” Hawes says. “Finally we’re going to be able to. So I’m super-psyched about this.”
“I’m so tired of telling my son, when he asks, ‘What are you going to be for Halloween, Dad?’ and I say, ‘Gone.’ Not cool,” Wilson adds. (lehighvalleylive)
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November 1st, 2009 @ 10:57 am
[...] syfy ghost hunters » syfy, syfy channel, ghost hunters, syfy.com … (rafaelcandelas.com) – October 31, 2009Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson, stars of Syfy’s Ghost Hunters and co-founders of The Atlantic Paranormal Society (TAPS) have transcended the paranormal. [...]