Ghost Whisperer
(9/2005 - present)



Airs: Fridays, 8:00 PM (CBS)

DVD Releases:

The Complete 1st Season (09/26/2006) [Buy It]

Premise:

Ghost Whisperer is inspired by the cases of famed psychic James Van Praagh and Mary Ann Winkowski. This series focuses on Melinda Gordon, a young newlywed with the unique ability to communicate with the earthbound spirits of people who have died. Melinda has spent her entire life coping with this extraordinary psychic gift, but also yearns to lead an ordinary life. Melinda uses her gift to relay important information to the living, which allows the dead to pass on to the other side.

News: (07/24/06) - Ghost Whisperer star Jennifer Love Hewitt confirmed to SCI FI Wire that Camryn Manheim (The Practice) will be joining the cast as a regular for season two, replacing Aisha Tyler. Also, Jay Mohr will be making a recurring appearance. "We have some new people coming, which is going to be great," Hewitt said in an interview on July 15 at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "We have Camryn Manheim joining the show, which we're really excited about. And Jay Mohr (Action) is going to be on for a while. So we have really good guest stars this year. And people that are, I think, going to kind of make the cast more exciting. And it's been really good. We've been back to work for a week now."

(03/08/06) - Good news, CBS announced on March 6 that it is renewing Ghost Whisperer for a second season. According to CBS, Ghost Whisperer helped CBS become the prime-time leader on Fridays among adults aged 18-49 and 25-54, while widening the network's lead-in viewers from last season.

John Gray, executive producer of Ghost Whisperer, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second season will develop from the "big surprise ending" of season one.

"We're not going to mess with our formula too much," Gray said in an interview. "At the same time, we don't want it to get stale. So we are probably going to introduce some darker elements, just in terms of the characters. You know, the Laughing Man and the Wide Brim Hat Man, as we call him. They'll be back next year."

"We're going to be giving some explanation for their presence in the last couple of episodes this year."

(10/13/05) - According to Variety, CBS has ordered a full 22-episode season of Ghost Whisperer while also commissioning three new scripts for Threshold. Ghost Whisperer has had solid numbers since premiering last month, the trade paper reported.

(9/26/05) - According to The Hollywood Reporter, the September 23 premiere of Ghost Whisperer scored well, drawing 11.4 million viewers and a 2.9 rating. The audience for the series grew by nearly 1 million viewers from its first half-hour to its second.

(9/22/05) - Sean Maher, who played Dr. Simon Tam in the canceled series Firefly and the upcoming movie Serenity, will appear in an early episode of Ghost Whisperer, to be written and directed by series co-creator John Gray. Maher will play the spirit of a deceased man.

(8/25/05) - According to sentiments expressed by average TV viewers on the Internet as tracked by the 2005 TV Trends survey produced by Trendum, Ghost Whisperer has a strong chance of winning a solid audience, reports The Hollywood Reporter. NBC's Surface, CBS' Threshold, The WB's Supernatural, and Fox's Bones and Kitchen Confidential are other new series being talked up positively online, the company's trend reports found. A finding contrary to opinions of media buyers and TV critics.

In its 2004 survey, Trendum predicted, based on the unsolicited Internet conversations it monitored, that ABC's dramas Lost and Desperate Housewives would be breakout hits, an opinion that, at the time, was not shared by most media agencies and TV critics.

(7/20/05) - At CBS' fall press preview in Beverly Hills, Calif., on July 19, Jennifer Love Hewitt (Party of Five) was asked if she was worried about the inevitable comparisons with NBC's similarly themed Medium, "I'm not very concerned with them, because all we have is a pilot."

"And I think that when you really start to see the shape of this series, it is very different. I think it's different for lots of reasons. Here are the comparisons: We're both female. We're both married. And we both happen to be able to ... deal with the dead and the afterlife."

"The difference is, she sees them only them in dreams," Hewitt said. "I deal with them up close and personal. They're in my living room. I cry over their stories. I'm their last, best friend on Earth. And I have a new marriage, not an established marriage, and I don't solve crimes for them. I solve crimes of their heart, which is completely different. And I think that that will show itself."

(7/07/05) - Check out the recent CNN article about the woman who inspired the Ghost Whisperer series.

Cast:

Jennifer Love Hewitt as Melinda Gordon
Aisha Tyler as Andrea Moreno
David Conrad as Jim Clancy


Episode List

Episode #Prod #Original
Air Date		 Episode Title
 
 
Season One
1. 1-1 23-Sep-2005 Pilot
2. 1-2 30-Sep-2005 The Crossing
3. 1-3 07-Oct-2005 Ghost, Interrupted
4. 1-4 14-Oct-2005 Mended Hearts
5. 1-5 21-Oct-2005 Lost Boys
6. 1-6 28-Oct-2005 Homecoming
7. 1-7 04-Nov-2005 Hope and Mercy
8. 1-8 11-Nov-2005 On the Wings of a Dove
9. 1-9 18-Nov-2005 Voices
10. 1-10 25-Nov-2005 Ghost Bride
11. 1-11 09-Dec-2005 Shadow Boxer
12. 1-12 16-Dec-2005 Undead Comic
13. 1-13 06-Jan-2006 Friendly Neighborhood Ghost (a.k.a. Ghost Next Door)
14. 1-14 13-Jan-2006 Last Execution
15. 1-15 27-Jan-2006 Melinda's First Ghost
16. 1-16 03-Feb-2006 Dead Man's Ridge
17. 1-17 03-Mar-2006 Demon Child
18. 1-18 10-Mar-2006 Miss Fortune
19. 1-19 31-Mar-2006 Fury (a.k.a. Condemned to Repeat)
20. 1-20 07-Apr-2006 The Vanishing
21. 1-21 05-May-2006 Free Fall
22. 1-22 12-May-2006 The One





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