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Derek Acorah, TV medium, dies aged 69

One of the bands I saw last night dedicated a song to him. I don't think they were fans, the song is Doris Stokes (is dead). :)

(Doris Stokes was an earlier medium who was a household name in the UK in the late 70s and 80s.)
 
Michel H said:
I hope he did not get poisoned or otherwise assassinated: 69, it's not a very old age to die.
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Something more mundane apparently. Pneumonia and sepsis....

HERE

Birmingham Mail said:
Derek's wife later confirmed he had fallen into a coma after contracted sepsis, an infection of the blood that can lead to organ failure.

"He was taken really quickly. It was pneumonia which got him in the end," Gwen told the Sun .

"He developed sepsis and was in intensive care. I'm heartbroken to have lost him."

The cause of death has yet to be officially announced.
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Oh, gawd, he was the biggest, most obvious fake ever. We watched some of Most Haunted but I couldn't take it anymore and begged my sister to take it off our dvr recordings.

He always said the same thing everywhere they went. There was a woman being tortured. Blah blah blah. He was really into torture.

And the host lady who was always screaming. Laughable.
 
TV Psychic Detectives & Mediums dying out

As I've previously said on this forum, the vast majority of TV psychic detectives who also claim contact with the dead as mediums are literally dying out. Noreen Renier turned 83 years old on January 16, 2020 (born in 1937) and virtually all of the major psychic peddlers from TV's Psychic Detectives, Psychic Investigators, and Unsolved Mysteries have over the past 5 years died, retired in poor health, or disappeared to unknown parts.


Indeed, these psychic actors and actresses who held a lock on television from 1985-2010 (even in syndication on obscure cable channels) have declined in North America. Worldwide there's some spots where they still cling --- but not like the golden years. In part raise a toast to websites which have historically tracked paranormal claims and highlighted psychic deceptions. Not to mention disappearing AM and FM late night paranormal audiences. Psychic book sales? Tough times as such books are also in the trenches compared to 2000-2010. Progress has been made.


There are fewer delusional psychics peddling their goods today --- because previous and newer potential buyers have other and better entertainment readily in their hands. It's also the fact that psychic peddlers who still remain aren't pulling in the money that kept previous ventures expanding. Not an occupation that one can count on long term. And who wants to try and find a new job in their 40's and 50's with only "psychic medium" on their resume?
 
Sherlock said:
And who wants to try and find a new job in their 40's and 50's with only "psychic medium" on their resume?
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I suppose it depends on what you think your chances of getting your face on TV are. "Celebrity" has become a separate category to "possessing any appreciable talent that anyone would want to watch", we're past Z-List (into 'Ampersand List'?) and may need to borrow characters from a non latin alphabet to meet the needs of TV production companies.
 
Sherlock said:
As I've previously said on this forum, the vast majority of TV psychic detectives who also claim contact with the dead as mediums are literally dying out. Noreen Renier turned 83 years old on January 16, 2020 (born in 1937) and virtually all of the major psychic peddlers from TV's Psychic Detectives, Psychic Investigators, and Unsolved Mysteries have over the past 5 years died, retired in poor health, or disappeared to unknown parts.


Indeed, these psychic actors and actresses who held a lock on television from 1985-2010 (even in syndication on obscure cable channels) have declined in North America. Worldwide there's some spots where they still cling --- but not like the golden years. In part raise a toast to websites which have historically tracked paranormal claims and highlighted psychic deceptions. Not to mention disappearing AM and FM late night paranormal audiences. Psychic book sales? Tough times as such books are also in the trenches compared to 2000-2010. Progress has been made.


There are fewer delusional psychics peddling their goods today --- because previous and newer potential buyers have other and better entertainment readily in their hands. It's also the fact that psychic peddlers who still remain aren't pulling in the money that kept previous ventures expanding. Not an occupation that one can count on long term. And who wants to try and find a new job in their 40's and 50's with only "psychic medium" on their resume?
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Nice to see a post from you Sherlock but you obviously have not been watching the Dr Oz show. He is inviting a whole slew of them on to give readings to bereaved audience members. He is just as credulous as when he was pushing Bulbo Ginco Juice or whatever the Hell it was.
 
Gord in Toronto (and everyone else): Ya... I know about Dr. Oz and a sad collection of paranormal and odd nutritional "experts" spun along from The Oprah Winfrey Show and her production company. If not for some still-there-is-life distribution support from Sony Pictures Television, I'm not sure you'd being seeing much Oz.

I'm not saying that money cannot be made (sadly) by aiming for naive and uneducated viewers --- but --- according to Broadcasting Cable the Dr. Oz show's ratings dropped more than 70 percent during a 5 year period from the 2011-2012 season to its 2017-2018 run. At the end of the 2012 season it averaged about 3.8 million and by 2018 it was down to about 1.1 million. It has bounced around over the past 15 months or so from just shy of a million to 1.3 million. Like the 1980-2010 psychic peddlers its golden years (and viewership from 3-4.5 million) are long gone.


Today its syndicated offerings are often in lesser time slots and with fewer stronger stations airing it. That isn't particularly good news for a 2022 or 2023 season when the far more factually accurate Gilligan's Island re-runs may still outpace it.
 
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