Bad Ghost, Bad Ghost, What You Gonna Do?
With a slew of paranormal shows already on TV, the Arts and Entertainment channel hopes to revamp the format by documenting cops solving crimes by day and chasing ghosts by night on the upcoming series, "Paranormal Cops."
Since the inception of reality based TV in the U.S., new trends inexplicably emerge each season in attempts to corner the market in this ever-evolving format. The trend in the 2008/09 season undoubtedly is ghost chasing.
Already successful with Paranormal State, a show involving Penn State students solving ghost mysteries, A&E is latching on further to the popular afterlife story line with its latest greenlit series, Paranormal Cops.
Seeking to one-up its successful Ghost Hunters rival on Sci-Fi, Cops will add a new layer to the popular reality genre with a group of real-life police officers in Chicago as the subjects. According to TV Guide, the program will follow the group as they lead normal police lives by day and moonlight as ghost chasers at night.
Robert Sharenow, the senior VP in nonfiction and alternative programming at A&E equivocates the show as, "the perfect marriage of A&E's successful crime and justice genre with our blossoming paranormal programming that documents real-life accounts of bona fide paranormal investigators."
No premiere date has been set for Paranormal Cops.
The third season of Paranormal State will debut on January 19.
