A&E's 'Ghost Hunters' Mustafa Gatollari, Brandon Alvis Speak out on Series Revival With Discovery+
After it was announced late last month that Ghost Hunters was getting the revival treatment just two years after it was first rebooted at A&E with a new incarnation at Discovery+ and starring three of the franchise’s original members, paranormal investigators Mustafa Gatollari and Brandon Alvis are speaking out about the news. In an exclusive with PopCulture.com's host Tania Hussain, the two are sharing new details about their upcoming series and book as the former A&E investigators admit the announcement was just as shocking to them as it was for fans.
“Brandon and I talked about it recently, a few months back too. It’s just like when you’re kind of kept in the dark about things and you’re not hearing things, and then you saw how A&E was shifting as a network. There was invariably going to be some changes with that,” Gatollari said, adding how the pair had their contract with Pilgrim, citing his own had a “certain number of months” before they could lock him in to renew for another season. It was when that expired that the New Jersey native admitted he did not want to stay stagnant.
Disclosing how he and Alvis were of the “same mind” and why they “gel so well together,” it was then they started immediately on new work until they would hear back, including the book they are looking to publish in 2022. “We had so many different ideas, so then we just started developing that. [But] when the news came that you had some of the former investigators from the show and it was going to be on Discovery+ and all that, it was kind of like a gut punch at first,” Gatollari said. “I was kind of pissed for like 15 minutes. I was like, ‘Oh God, this sucks.’ But […] we’re constantly working, constantly doing new stuff, so that subsided real quick. That subsided real quick.”
