By RabbitEars
The fifth season premiere of SCI FI Channel’s Ghost Hunters on March 11 drew in great ratings for the network. The episode, which featured visits to the historic Betsy Ross home and Hannum House in Philadelphia, delivered a 1.9 Household rating, 2.7 million total viewers, 1.6 million adults 18-49 and 1.7 million adults 25-54. The show also outperformed the season premiere of South Park, and new episodes of The Real World, Dog the Bounty Hunter and MonsterQuest, making it the No. 1 cable telecast for the day among adults 25-54. Additionally, in the show’s 9pm ET hour, SCI FI was the No. 1 cable network, sweeping all major demographics, and particularly continuing its success with female viewers.
Can the TAPS team duplicate this success? It depends upon the quality of the locations that they investigate, and whether they are scary and interesting enough. Here’s a preview of the March 18 episode, which features a visit to New Hampshire’s Star Island. The island was first settled in the early 1600s temporarily by fishermen, with the first permanent settlement beginning in 1677. The island now features a number of hotels, most notably the Oceanic Hotel, which supposedly is haunted — along with the entire village, apparently.
