Living TV has finally released the rights to Most Haunted back to Karl Beattie and Antix Productions. This means Karl could now take the show to another TV station.
The statement from Living TV said: “We have decided not to recommission Most Haunted and will be giving Antix Productions the right to take it to another channel if they wish,” Sky Living said. “We would like to thank Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie for all of their hard work and commitment over the years.”
The statement continued: “Like every commercial TV channel, Sky Living is constantly developing new ideas. We recognise our customers’ appetite for paranormal programming and have recently aired a series about popular psychic Sally Morgan and original scripted drama Bedlam, which proved to be the channel’s most successful commissioned series in its history.
“As well as paranormal, the channel will build on other successful genres, from scripted comedy to real-life relationships, which we know our customers also enjoy.”
The news was posted on Karl Beattie’s Facebook and in the Sun Newspaper.
Karl Beattie posted on his Facebook on 12th August 2011
Hi Guys Just wanted to give you the official news. SkyLiving has decided not to re-commission MH which is sad news, however, we have been given our rights back, so we can go to other broadcasters with it. I think that a new home and better investigation techniques will move MH into the next phase making it bigger and better than ever. We are very excited about MH’s future, so onwards and upwards my paranormal friends. xx
The Sun 13th August
GHOST-busting show Most Haunted has been axed by Sky Living – a year after Yvette Fielding quit.
The channel will return the programme rights to production company Antix, run by Yvette, 42, and husband Karl Beattie.
A spokesman said Sky Living will focus on other paranormal TV, including psychic Sally Morgan’s show and drama Bedlam.
On 27th October 2011, Karl Beattie announced via his Facebook profile;
“Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to get a programme sorted for halloween, getting all the rights back took much longer than first thought. But we are back now, next year we will be looking to go bigger and better than ever before and we will take halloween back.
We are about to sign a very exciting deal with a very large company to take Most Haunted to the next level. So watch this space. And thanks for all of your support and undying loyalty, which in this industry is a very rare thing indeed, thank you all it means so much.”
Yvette posted this on her FB today …
“P.s… We are working so hard to bring you more Most Haunted’s in one form or another xxxx”
Hiya Claire ,
Hope you are ok, i’m not sure exactly when EH are launching the show, their website simply states ‘coming soon’ .. so…. your guess is as good as mine LOL i’d love it to be halloween… who knows i’ll keep checking. bye for now and have a lovely weekend x
no claire thought about it im like a bad penny lol hope your ok xxx
@Ryan L ” Only way i see she will talk about MH is if its on ITV”
REALLY! just been part of the last 10 odd years of her life… and its Halloween but if you say so Ryan you seem to know a man that knows so i’ll stand corrected.
@ Jason hiya mate thought you had left us hope you are ok x
@ Nikki dressing up as a witch sounds fun where are you going. They have some really great Halloween outfits just got a leaflet through the door.
I hope something good is on tv this Halloween. I have been searching to see if any tv event is planned but as yet cant find anything, did anyone watch bio last night new series of celeb ghost stories and my ghost story?
when i go into face book to look up karl beattie just a pic off him lol
Only way i see she will talk about MH is if its on ITV :/ And i dnt think she will anyway…
Read on Karl’s FB Profile that he is having meetings about a different program today..
Im guessing its something paranormal as thats what Antix does right? lol
@ Ryan thankyou for info
@ claire i think youre right about that one but it wud be gr8 2 hear something abt MH we can all but wish looking forward to dressing up as a witch!
OOO Derek that will teach you, for getting rid of your silver dream machine.
Re the Halloween interview i think she has got to tell us something about MH progress? and as well as the expected ghost chat.
Her main reason may be that she is there to promote the new film?
about time! How can we possibly go another halloween without mh? Bring back the old team please, david wells and richared felix plus the fab regular crew, Karl Yv, Stu, Kath, Keiran, John. The chemistry between you guys was awsome and like having an extended family. Take the show to all the stations! Someone somewhere must be intelligent enough to see how special it is! When our tv goes on this halloween PLEASE let us switch on to youX
Its on Halloween Nikki…
hi guys when is the alan / yvette interview on ?
be able to get some info probs
no not reallyi have been playing with my new car
i will watch allan tit halloween.
something very spooky happend though i was driving comming back from warrington town when i thought i saw some victorian woman standing at a bus stop to my left i did not really think anything of it
but heres the weierd thing straight after i passed her a smell came into the car both me and my wife smellt it .
spooky part the car started to die yes die i pulled over to side of road remember new car i turned ignition it came on and from under the front of car it flashed i turned car back of phoned rac they came out and could not find anything wrong with it ???
and since then nothing wrong but funny thing is remember victorian woman at bus stop smell then car plays up coincidence you deside
your asking yourself how did i know it was victorian woman it was the cloths grey long and the woman was wearing
a hat just stood there and also thinking back now it was 1.30 in morning so no buses i wont be going down that road any time soon xx
Hi Derek
Yeh know what you mean bit of an echo round here!!
Re MH RIP dont think its come to that like Ryan L said before Yvette will be on Allan T Halloween show so she should tell us some news then with any luck.
Anymore spooky stories Derek? done a ouija recently or at all?
hi anybody want to talk
mh rest in peace???
@Jason where you going you may as well stay and chat hope your okx
@Hi Sue long time we were just talking about you and EH.
Yeh no MHL this Halloween but EH is coming. When did you say again was it autumn? Anyway nice to hear from you x
Hiya all !
not been on here for awhile … just thought id tune in and see if anyone has any update on MH? …its not looking likely that we’re gunna have a halloween launch , unless… EH launch their new show at this time. hope you are all well and happy . bye for now x
ps sorry for swearing gone now
bye eveyone take care rembear life is short miss you all be good gone xxx
@ Arline thanks for the info sounds like you and your son had a good fun night.
That place looked like it had a really SPOOKY atmosphere.
Did you have a chat with Brian and Fred?
One of these days WHEN they do a Live again would like to treat myself and see it in the raw!
We were saying earlier that poor Brian seems to be a fill in medium when they have no-one else and that he must be a very canny bloke not to tell them to sod off. But in saying that he has kinda always been there eh.
Good story about your aunt and i agree it is a comfort to get little signs that we are not alone.
@Ryan L Hope you enjoy your DH night out and make contact with lots of ghosties.
Thanks for the Alan T interview news surely Yvette will tell us something then hope so anyway why else would she be on (apart from the fact that she is the queen of scream) certainly rules out a Live this year for sure.
Bye for now guys x
so theres nothing no parnormal live this year no even on sky living fuck it lol
I also miss u guys like CRRAAZZZZYYYYY, like, OH SOOOO BADDD!!!!!!
I can only hope that you can get back on screen in some capacity.
:/ not this Halloween….. .
so theres no most haunted then sighs @ryan
oh just to Say.
Yvette will be appering on Allan Tichmarsh show on Halloween …
@ Ryan L: Enjoy the Dead Haunted Halloween night in Morecambe Winter Gardens. (^_^)
@Arline thanks for that spooky story and its nice to think that they are still around looking after you I lost my mum 2 years ago and i always think she is still with me.
Hi Claire dont mind the questions at all. I won the tickets on the MH website had to answer some questions about them and I won 2 tickets so took my son with me for co. he thinks it all fake but he had great time. It was in fact the one with Paul Ross doing seance, looking at stage from the tv screen we were sat on the rgt and were there on the Wednesday/ Thursday had my picutre taken with Fred and Brian as the rest of the team had left and were at some where else in Lancs I loved it nothing much happened but would jump at the chance to go again.
My answer to Caroline is no no ghostly goings on here but my aunt lives in Nottingham and when her husband died she moved to a smaller house which he had never ever been in but it was in the same village, sometimes when you are in her new home you can smell his cigars he used to smoke and she also had his old tool box and everytime she went to get screwdriver out it would be covered in oil. So we went and bought her new tool box no oil can in there and still her tools get covered in oil sometimes real weird as he had never been in that house and house is newer than her old house?????
Guess he must have moved with her and be looking over her?
Hey guys just so you know aswell…
I’m going to Morcome winter gardens for halloween with Dead Haunted…
Think you should give a try 🙂 would be cool..
Then youcould ask Phil about MH 😛
Hiya Arline welcome to our own little chat room. I know claire as asked you a lot of questions LOL But do you have any ghostly experiances would love to know ?
@Jason thanks i’m ok x, you ok?
Think you are right about us not getting anything this year no PIL either. I was hoping Sky would have given it another go and made it better. There were rumours abot EH doing a live but……they haven’t even advertised there series yet so thats doubtful. Nevermind theres always Christmas?
Hi Arline we are nice here tell us about the Morecambe Winter Gardens.
I enjoyed that, was that the one that Yvette sprung a surprise seance on Paul Ross and someone in the audience fainted?
Was that the theatre that had a Good\side\bad side?
What side were you on?
Were you there the whole week?
How did you win tickets did you phone on the previous live?
Too many questions Arline, sorry i’m a bit nosy had to stop myself from really drilling you lol. Tell us all please……. oh just one more thing? (stop press i had a Columbo moment there he he) who did you get a photo taken with?
That makes me wonder what about all the viewers that won tickets for the next Live in uk during the last Live in Prague. Will they still be honored when they eventually do do another Live?
looks like theres no most haunted this halloween dont think there will be anything at all havent seen any addverts for halloween on sky living
Just found the site and can’t wait for MH to come back to our screens. Hubby & I are big fans along with many of our friends. Please hurry back xxx
I have just found this website and OMG so excited am massive MH fan and was so sad when it ended I was lucky enough to win tickets the live show at Morecambe Winter Gardens and had pics took with some of the cast. Hope they come back v.v. soon
morning claire thank you for that hoe your ok x
Hi Jason
There was a girl on here think her name was Sue? she said it was on the showcase channel 201 in the autumn so wont be long.
@claire do you know when eh starts and which channel its on thank you
@ Claire: I’m sure he’s lovely, but I get the impression that he can’t have very high self-esteem if he just keeps letting them walk all over him like they seem to.
Well it does seem that wayx
Ryan keep at your source???? and tell us we wont tell anyone hehe but seriously i get it they are busy people and we will just have to sit tight and keep the ole home fires burning grrrrrr
Re MH14 i will just watch the repeats
Hope EH is good and MH better hope that they are not too good out of sight out of mind and all that.
yea… thought it was meant to be out this year :/
Have they started filming Malum yet?
I ask just incase anyone else is interested. Personally, I’d wait until it was on the TV, but then I’m too tight to buy tickets to see anything other than Harry Potter, sooooo… [Shrugs]
BUT remember aswell… that Series 14 + MHL DVD’s are out next month …
Hey guys sorry for posting in the wrong place .. lol
You have to be patient about MH/MHL.
Its one of these programs that prob take a while to make. But remember theres not even an broadcaster yet..
But I think they will 200% be back,
Remember they just got the rights back. and takes time to find an broadcaster even harder coz its a paranormal show and don’t know what is going to happen!
And also remember that antix are prob still editing the film Malum aswell.
Yea Yvette and Karl will keep in touch but remember they can’t tell us any details untill 100% finalized. And i guess they don’t wanna make it any more complicated.
@ Claire: I’m sure he’s lovely, but I get the impression that he can’t have very high self-esteem if he just keeps letting them walk all over him like they seem to. 🙁
@ Claire I agree with you it is abit annoying that all the news we are getting is from rumours, I think that we have all been to impatiant thinking MH would be back this halloween,I think it will take some time getting things up and running again. But Yvette or Karl should still keep us in the picture as to what is going on.
@claire his source is probley brown source lol full of crap lol might be in the new year now if it comes back like new year new channel hope im wrong though let have more pil loooooool
”Dont think MHL is on this Halloween i have hear sorce’s from freinds of Karl that it wont be till next year”
This was posted by Ryan on other thread you may have seen it but i’m a bit mad about it, if its true. Karl and Yvette said not long ago that we would hear from them soon but as yet nothing only rumours. I am just guessing but if Ryans source is right we have a long wait yet.
@Vicki spot on re Brian aka old faithful me thinks he needs to grow a pair! but then he may just be a really canny nice bloke??
@ Claire: Knowing what’s happened in the past, they’ll just wheel out Brian Shepherd as he seems to be used as their default medium. I keep hoping that one day he’ll turn around to them and say “I don’t want to be the ‘well everyone else was busy’ option anymore”
I don’t dislike Brian Shepherd as a person, but I do think he’s pushed aside to easily. 🙁
With regards to this Halloween, it doesn’t look likely, if they announced it on 1st October, it would be almost too late for the fans to get everything they need sorted for the day(s) of the live, it would be cutting it just that little bit too fine. If they are planning to do this, then they must be SUPREMELY confident it will work; I’m not so sure the fans would be too happy, though.
caroline did you get message i will send you copy of the the live from pendle hill has it was broudcast but now way of getting it to you xx
i would send you a full copy but no way of contacting you pendle hell full live ????
@ derek ive only got live avents from october 2002 to december 2004, I did want the pendle live but its the pendle hell one where they are just talking about that weekend. sos thats all ive got.. @ nikki i think they will find somebody soon I hope.
as i i hope they havent lost credability sorry