Scream Team (stylised as ScreamTeam) is a British paranormal reality television series produced by Making Time Productions, broadcast on Living TV from 13 September to 8 December 2002. It ran for a single series of ten episodes and marked Phil Whyman's first appearance on paranormal television, ahead of his later role on Most Haunted.
Format
The series followed six young people — selected from over eight hundred applicants at auditions held in London in the summer of 2001 — as they travelled across the UK in a large silver campervan, spending time at reportedly haunted or otherwise paranormal locations. The cast was deliberately mixed between believers and sceptics, and the format was described by its creators as a cross between The Blair Witch Project and a live-action Scooby-Doo. The team received occasional assistance from guest psychic mediums over the course of the series, including Derek Ogilvie.
Of the six-person team, Phil Whyman — the oldest member — was generally regarded as the more measured, sceptical voice of the group, a role that is widely seen as having led directly to his subsequent recruitment onto Most Haunted.
Episodes
Locations investigated across the series included Clapham Woods in Sussex (associated with claimed Satanic ritual activity), Blue Bell Hill (tied to the disturbance of an ancient burial ground), a reported poltergeist case in Bristol (paired with an overnight stay at the Ancient Ram Inn), the "Curse of the Crying Boy" painting linked to a string of Yorkshire house fires, and a UFO-focused episode set on Ilkley Moor.
Production
The series was produced by Making Time Productions for Living TV, with Richard Woolfe and Jane Millichip serving as executive producers for the channel alongside Ben Devlin and Nigel Leigh. It later aired on the short-lived digital channel Ftn.