Nick Groff has spent roughly twenty years doing what a lot of us do at 3am. Wandering around dark places, whispering into the void, looking for friends. The difference is he does it on camera and gets paid for it. Now he’s leveled up, because his wife Tessa is a psychic medium, and someone at Brandon TV looked at that situation and thought, this needs a live studio audience.
Live! with the Other Side premieres Friday, April 24 on Brandon TV and iHorror has the exclusive trailer drop right here. Go ahead. Press play.
So What’s Actually Happening Here
Live! with the Other Side is filmed in front of a live studio audience in Buffalo, NY. Which, if you’ve ever been to Buffalo in April, is either very brave or a cry for help. The event is being billed as a “live social experiment.” In practice, that means Nick does what he’s always done (investigates, furrows brow, asks the darkness to give him a sign) while Tessa does the thing Nick has never been able to do himself. Actually get an answer. Or, at the very least, does something that looks very similar to conjuring the dead.
She’s a psychic medium. She delivers readings. In real time. In front of a crowd. That’s the show.
It’s a dynamic as old as paranormal television itself. You could draw a straight line from a Long Island couple named Ed and Lorraine quietly building a legacy out of exactly this same partnership. We’ve been chasing that formula ever since and usually finding it in late-night cable slots we pretend we don’t know about.
The Groffs are doing it live. With receipts, presumably.
Why This Works (Or Why It Should)
Here’s the thing about the believer/seeker format, it only works when both people are actually doing something. The medium has to deliver, and the investigator has to be genuinely surprised. Nick Groff has enough real field experience that you can’t really fake a reaction on him, which means if something lands, it lands. And Tessa has been doing this work well before anyone put cameras on her.
That tension, is this real, is any of this real, does it matter, is exactly what makes paranormal content compelling even for people who would never in a million years call themselves believers. The live audience component adds a layer of accountability that most of these shows deliberately avoid, which is either very confident or very reckless. Possibly both.
Live! with the Other Side premieres Friday, April 24 on Brandon TV
The dead have things to say. Whether you’re ready to hear it is your problem.
