Paranormal Watch
Format
Episodic show / Comedy / Fake documentary
Logline
Jen, Yinka, Charles and Ekow are part of the local Paranormal Watch, a Midlands based organisation trying to explain the UK’s most haunting myths. They hope that with their paranormal skills and camera equipment they can help the community by explaining haunting encounters like British big cats, Scottish Kelpies, Loch Ness monsters or the TV Licence Man. A six part comedy horror fake documentary following the misadventures of a self proclaimed ghostbuster team.
Themes
Horror, Fake Documentary, Comedy, Satirical Commentary
Characters
Jen spearheads the charity, inspired by her frustration with unexplained paranormal cases the police couldn’t crack. She wants to clean her brother’s name, who was accused of something that was clearly caused by a paranormal event. Driven by a dream of capturing something worthy of a job at Discovery Channel, Yinka manages an eclectric array of gadgets, night vision cameras and EMF readers. Charles, the eccentric resident psychic and medium, armed with ouija boards and candles, believes he can communicate with spirits from the other side. Rumoured to be an enigmatic millionaire, no one knows how he amassed his fortune. And Ekow, an ex-convict struggling to get hired, who receives a job offer from Jen because she mistakenly believes "illegal possession" has to do with exorcisms rather than drugs.
Episode Ideas
The group decides to aid an elderly woman in reuniting with her late husband. However, tensions rise when they uncover that he used to be a Nazi. Despite their reservations, the gang remain determined to assist her, convinced that communicating with the husband's spirit will lead them to hidden Nazi gold.
The gang receives a call from a troubled family whose child repeatedly sketches a mysterious black figure he claims appears in their home. Upon investigation, they uncover that the figure is, in fact, the wife's clandestine lover.
The gang believes they have found alien crop circles. Turns out it is a local farmer trying to stop a corporate development from buying a piece of land and stop it from gentrifying. Firstly the gang are against him, but later on they will join him against corporate greed.
The gang stumble into a renaissance festival in the woods. The actors are not breaking character, which makes them start to believe that there’s a chance they may have travelled back in time.
An old man asks for help from the gang when a mysterious entity keeps asking him for permission to get inside his house. Hoping they will be facing a vampire, the gang are face to face with an even scarier foe: the TV licence man.
A guy trying to sell a famously haunted house calls the Paranormal Watch to make sure there are no evil presences in it. When they find out that someone is squatting in the attic, they quickly try to kick him out. But when a dark secret is revealed, they will soon join forces with the squatter to fight against their common enemy: corporate greed.
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