Psychic Detectives

For other uses, see psychic detective.

Psychic Detectives or Psychic Investigators is a television program produced by StoryHouse Productions for Court TV, as of 2006 in its 5th season. The program documents real-life cases of situations in which police departments have enlisted the aid of psychics in solving difficult cases. The series production does not investigate the claims of the psychics showcased or confirm their claims. For entertainment it instead recreates some of the atmosphere surrounding psychic claims using a selection of well recognized intuitives, crime psychics, psychic detectives and supporters of paranormal beliefs. A cross section of paranormal psychics are profiled though most are women who typically are engaged as self-described psychic mediums communicating with the dead.

Cast

Les Marshak (Narrator)
Phil Jordan (Himself)
Noreen Renier (Herself)
Rosemarie Kerr (Herself)
Carole Pate (Herself)

Criticism

The series has often been controversial in its portrayal of events with little scientific skepticism about whether events actually happened as re-created. Critics have also charged that several psychics have exaggerated or fantasized events or claims that did not actually occur. Viewers are encouraged to expand their search about specific psychics profiled for a broader range of information.

In August 2007, Psychic Detectives was awarded The Truly Terrible Television (TTTV) Award for peddling pseudoscience and superstition to its audience by the Independent Investigative Group IIG. Other winners have been Montel Williams (for every episode of The Montel Williams Show to feature Sylvia Browne), A&E's Paranormal State and Syfy's Ghost Hunters.^[1]

Broadcasters

Country	TV network(s)	Weekly schedule
Italy	Mediaset TOPcrime	June 1, 2013 at 6:40am
Australia	Channel Seven	Mondays 12.10am
Canada	Court TV Canada	Thursdays 9:00pm
Japan	Fox Crime Japan
United States	Bio Discovery en Español Justice Network
United Kingdom	Bio TruTV

References

↑ "IIG | The IIG Awards". Iigwest.com. 2010-08-21. Retrieved 2011-07-01.

External links

Psychic Detectives at the Internet Movie Database

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