America's Psychic Challenge
Sixteen psychics compete for $100,000 and the top title.
America's Psychic Challenge is a competitive reality TV series on the Lifetime Television Network, produced by Bunim/Murray Productions. The show originated in the UK with the title Britain's Psychic Challenge. It premiered on Lifetime on October 12, 2007, with eight episodes hosted by John Burke. The winner of the first season was Michelle Whitedove, who took home $100,000 and the title of "America’s #1 Psychic."
Quick Facts
- Network
- Lifetime Television Network
- Premiere date
- October 12, 2007
- Number of episodes
- 8
- Host
- John Burke
- Grand prize
- $100,000
- Winner
- Michelle Whitedove
- Title awarded
- America’s #1 Psychic
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Description
From a national search of thousands, sixteen self-professed psychics were interviewed and tested to gain a spot to compete on television. The production company created tests with the stated goal of assessing contestants' supernatural abilities. Each psychic earned points based on test results. At the end of every show, the two psychics with the highest scores moved forward, and low-scored contestants left the series. Ultimately, the final two psychics faced off for the grand prize of $100,000 and the title of "America’s #1 Psychic."
Broadcast history
The show premiered on the Lifetime Television Network on October 12, 2007. Eight episodes aired with John Burke as host. Michelle Whitedove won the first season. In the final challenge, Whitedove and challenger Jackie Barrett were handed a photograph of a man. As psychic detectives, they had thirty minutes to find a stuntman buried underground in ten acres of California desert. Whitedove laid the photograph on the exact location, as men dug up the box in which a stuntman lay buried with an oxygen tank. Other competitors were Tori Allah, Jeff Baker, Sloan Bella, Jamie Clark, Silvana Fillmore, Joseph McBratney, Lynn Miller, Naryza Sanchez, Catherine Powell, Karyn Reese, Zenobia Simmons, Kim Stempien, Joseph Tittel, and Robin Zodiac. In February 2011, winner Michelle Whitedove was invited to participate in Psychic Challenge International (Het Zesde Zintuig), where winners from six countries competed in the Netherlands. As of January 2012, the Psychic Challenge format had gained worldwide success. Zodiac Rights sold the franchise and script into 15 countries or territories: USA, Norway, Great Britain, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Estonia, Belgium, Romania, Chile, Australia, Russia (on the TNT channel), Latvia, and Ukraine (on the STB channel). Russia was airing the twenty-second season, and Ukraine the twenty-first season.
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