The duo behind popular supernatural TV show Most Haunted are launching a new 24 hour satellite TV channel from their base in Manchester.
Yvette Fielding, known to millions for role as an ex-Blue Peter presenter, and her husband Karl Beattie are the driving force behind the new venture, marketed as The Paranormal Channel, which launches next Monday at 6pm to viewers with access to Sky TV receivers.
A success for Antix
Fielding and Beattie have set up a new firm, Monster Pictures, to steer the business and will be using their existing production company based in the city, Antix, to produce a high proportion of original content for the channel.
Fielding, who has presented Most Haunted for the last eight years, takes on the role of executive producer for the channel, and commented: “Karl and I have worked towards launching this channel for many years.
“Our Most Haunted devotees have told us in person and online, that they've always wanted a dedicated channel for all things paranormal. From ghosts, UFOs, aliens, mythical monsters to doppelgangers and poltergeists, The Paranormal Channel will cover every possible phenomenon."
Of the original programming set to appear from Antix, Whines and Spirits is a quest to find the most haunted pub in the UK, while Three Screaming Banshees will follow Fielding, Cath Howe and Lesley Smith as they travel across the country in a camper van, following directions from a “controlling, ghoulish and ghastly voice emanating from a 1960's reel-to-reel tape recorder.”
Fielding
The Paranormal Channel will also feature re-runs of Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World, as well as comedy, sci-fi and horror movies.
In addition to this, viewers will also be invited to submit ten-minute videos of their own paranormal experiences, while aspiring filmmakers will have the chance to air their homegrown ‘scary movies’.
According to the couple “major sponsorship deals for The Paranormal Channel are in the final stages” with details due to be released shortly.
Antix, Monster and the couple’s post-production firm Television Broadcast Services are reportedly moving to new office and production facilities at Mediacity shortly.
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