Paranormal State
| Paranormal State | |
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| Genre |
Paranormal Docudrama Reality |
| Starring |
Ryan Buell Heather Taddy Sergey Poberezhny Katrina Weidman Josh Light Eilfie Music Michelle Belanger |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 83 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multiple |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Four Seasons Productions Go Go Luckey Productions Picture Shack Entertainment |
| Distributor | A&E Television Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network | A&E Network |
| Original release | December 10, 2007 – May 2, 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | None |
| Followed by | Paranormal State: The New Class |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Paranormal State was an American paranormal reality television series that premiered on the A&E Network on December 10, 2007. The program follows and stars the Pennsylvania State University Paranormal Research Society, a student-led college club. The show features the group's investigations of alleged paranormal phenomena at reportedly haunted locations.
The show was produced by Four Seasons Productions International and Go Go Luckey Productions (which produced MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County, and A&E's now-cancelled Rollergirls). Gary Auerbach and Julie Auerbach (who head Go Go Luckey Productions) and Betsy Schechter (Four Seasons) were the executive producers.
The show was tentatively titled "Out There", "Dead Time" and "Paranormal U" before being called "Paranormal State."
Every episode of the show was outlined by the production team first, co-executive producer Tina Gazzerro stated, to ensure that a producible episode will result. "We try to identify where we get our discovery moments, our 'Ah-ha!' moments", Gazzerro told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Information about the event under investigation may also be held back from the students in order to create dramatic tension, and only situations which will have a conclusive outcome are investigated. "We may have information we don't give to [the PRS team]", Gazzerro said, "but we need to make sure [the episode is] produceable." Story arcs were also outlined for each "character" on the show, and the production team had publicly expressed its hope that a romantic relationship would develop between the research team leader Ryan Buell and one of the women on the series. The production team and the show's researchers say that no pressure was put on the research team to act in certain ways or make paranormal discoveries.
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