‘Cheers,’ ‘Taxi’ Showrunner Ken Estin and Mentalist Banachek Take Psychic Fraud Series ‘Psychic Predators’ From Taiwan Creative Content Fest to American Film Market (EXCLUSIVE)

Organic Media Group has announced Psychic Predators, a paranormal dramatic comedy starring mentalist Banachek as himself, with the project moving from Taiwan Creative Content Fest to the American Film Market. Ken Estin, the Emmy-winning showrunner of Taxi and Cheers, will lead the series with creator Steve Chicorel if it is commissioned; the story follows a team exposing fake psychics while trying to satisfy a television network.

Banachek’s history informs the series: as a young performer, he helped demonstrate how researchers could be fooled during Project Alpha and helped expose televangelist Peter Popoff’s concealed earpiece. Planned episodes will explore scams involving fortune-telling, bogus medical treatments and paranormal events, alongside pseudoscience and faked alien encounters. The creators say the series will balance comedy with the human consequences of exploiting belief, and its central principle is to examine extraordinary claims with solid evidence.