Most Haunted is a British paranormal

Paranormal television

Paranormal television is a genre of popular reality television programming. Its scope comprises purportedly factual investigations of paranormal phenomena, rather than fictional representations found in such shows as The Ghosts of Motley Hall and Ghostbusters, or cartoon/children's series such as...

 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 reality television

Reality television

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 series. The series was first shown on 25 May 2002 and ended on 21 July 2010. It was broadcast on Living and presented by Yvette Fielding

Yvette Fielding

Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With....-Early life and career:...

. The programme was based on investigating purported paranormal

Paranormal

Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...

 activity. It is shown on the satellite

Satellite television

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 and cable

Cable television

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 channels Living, Livingit and Channel One (Formerly Virgin 1

Virgin 1

Channel One was a television channel owned and operated by British Sky Broadcasting. The channel was launched on 1 October 2007 at 21:00 on Freeview, Virgin Media and Sky as Virgin1, replacing Ftn...

 and Ftn

Ftn

Ftn was a television channel from Virgin Media Television transmitting free-to-air on Freeview and Virgin Media, and as a subscription channel on Sky Digital. The channel was broadcast between 18:00 and 06:00 daily...

), primarily for the UK market. It is also shown in the United States on the Travel Channel

Travel Channel

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, on the W Channel in Australia and Canada, TV4 Plus

TV4 Plus

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 in Sweden, FEM

FEM (TV channel)

Fem is a Norwegian television channel targeting young women...

 in Norway, TV ONE and Vibe in New Zealand, Sub

Sub (TV channel)

Sub is a Finnish TV channel owned by Bonnier. The previous owner Alma Media sold Sub and its sister channels to Swedish Bonnier and Proventus in 2005.-Programs and audience:...

 in Finland, Stöð 2

Stöð 2

Stöð 2 is an Icelandic television channel, owned and operated by 365. Founded in 1986, It was the first privately owned television station in Iceland following the lifting of the state monopoly on television broadcasting...

 in Iceland and Star World

STAR World

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 in Asia.