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Tubi for Creators will try to accelerate efforts to bring more social video content to the streamer.

YouTube is the most-used streaming platform of them all, so why not lean into its popularity? That’s the approach that Tubi appears to be taking. The free ad-supported streaming service has announced the launch of a new program called Tubi for Creators, which is aimed at accelerating the addition of content from digital creators to its library.

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Tubi for Creators is “designed to accelerate Tubi’s investment in brigning more original stories from talented creators” to the service. It encompasses the previously-launched Stubio,...

Tubi CEO Anjali Sud presents at the Iab NewFronts on Tuesday, May 6, 2025.

Tubi is expanding its streaming library by licensing content from popular YouTube creators, further integrating digital talent into its free, ad-supported platform.

The Fox-owned streaming service has launched “Tubi for Creators,” a new initiative that builds on its previous efforts to spotlight creator-driven content. As part of the launch, Tubi has partnered with six YouTube creators to bring more than 500 episodes of their shows to the platform, with plans to add more creators and thousands of additional videos in the coming weeks.

The first wave of content includes programming from Rhett & Link’s Mythical, Kinigra Deon, Dan and Riya, FunnyMike, Jubilee, and Watcher Entertainment, the digital studio founded by Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Shane Madej.

“We’re listening to our viewers and recognize their desire for more stories that reflect culture and talent from the digital world,...

Principal photography has officially wrapped on Trüebadour, the upcoming sci-fi thriller starring Ryan Bergara, and an official first look at its star has been revealed.

From director Jennifer Zhang, Cbr has obtained an exclusive first look at Ryan Bergara as Mike, the bombastic CEO of the tech start-up at the center of Trüebadour’s premise. The photos showcase the star in a role completely different from what his fans are accustomed to.

Bergara, co-host of Watcher Entertainment’s Ghost Files, took to Instagram to celebrate the completion of filming (which occurred in April), telling his fans, “And just like that @truebadour_film is Wrapped. What an amazing experience with an amazing group of people.” Kevin Kreider, also appearing in Trüebadour, shared a similar sentiment and revealed “The last time I got this same exact butterfly feelings when I wrapped Bling in 2021.”

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The Rookieshowrunner Alexi Hawley promises the return of a fan-favorite character in Season 8.

Speaking to TVLine, Hawley would not answer the question of how many episodes the upcoming eighth season of The Rookie would be. However, Hawley did note that the series would likely be as long as if not longer than Season 7, which came in at 18 episodes total. Flula Borg's "Skip Tracer Randy comes back to us, I think it’s [Episode] 17, in a really fun storyline," Hawley said, tacitly admitting that Season 8 will run at least close to the same number of episodes as Season 7.

Created by Hawley, The Rookie premiered on ABC in 2018 to rave reviews from critics and audiences alike. For the past seven years, the series has followed Nathan Fillion's John Nolan, a member of the LAPD who joined the force relatively late in life after being swept up in a bank robbery as a civilian.

Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara (hosts of Watcher Entertainment's hit series Ghost Files) will guest star in next week's episode of The Rookie. Will the supernatural come with them?

Madej and Bergara will be bringing their paranormal investigation skills to The Rookie in Season 7, Episode 15, "A Deadly Secret." The episode airs on April 22, and its official synopsis reads: "Documentary filmmakers interview the LAPD on a complicated missing person's case connected to John." Fans were quick to pick up on an Easter egg in Season 7, Episode 13 of The Rookie, where, for a brief moment, two characters could be seen watching the Ghost Files episode ("The Trapped Spirits of a Haunted Escape Room").

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It will be the first appearance of the Ghoul Boys themselves on network television, but Bergara and Madej did previously appear in a Season 3 episode of S.W.A.T. as conspiracy theorists Eric and Ira.

ABC’s The Rookie season seven episode 14 wrapped up Malvado’s story in a shocking manner, bringing closure to the threat against Bailey. Up next, episode 15 airing on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 9pm Et/Pt.

The cast is led by Nathan Fillion as John Nolan. Season seven stars Mekia Cox as Nyla Harper, Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey, Melissa O’Neil as Lucy Chen, Eric Winter as Tim Bradford, Jenna Dewan as Bailey Nune, Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers, and Lisseth Chavez as Celina Juarez. Deric Augustine and Patrick Keleher recur as Miles and Seth.

“A Deadly Secret” Plot: Documentary filmmakers interview the LAPD on a complicated missing person’s case connected to John. Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej guest star.

Executive producer Alexi Hawley spoke with TV Insider about episode 14 and that stunning death. “To be honest, for me, the Malvado storyline really was...

In February 2025, it was revealed that Jennifer Zhang's sci-fi thriller, Trüebadour, was expected to begin filming in April. Ryan Bergara, who will star in the upcoming film, took to Instagram to give fans a positive status update.

Bergara confirmed via Instagram that production of the sci-fi thriller has officially begun. Bergara shared several behind-the-scenes photos, telling fans: "First days of Trüebadour in the can! Having a blast working with these folks and trying to take in and celebrate every small step of this journey! So here’s a lil bts while we continue the long road ahead!" Reflecting on his experience so far, he added, "And if I’m being embarrassingly honest… making a movie on the Universal lot, seeing The studio tour trams pass by, the same trams that I’ve sat in literally a hundred times, was surreal and genuinely a childhood dream fulfilled."

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When an AI fiction generator wreaks havoc on a tech startup after its implementation, the company must deal with the disastrous creations prompted by their own minds. Writer/director Jennifer Zhang explores the unnerving results in the upcoming sci-fi thriller, Trüebadour.

Per Deadline, Jamie Lee Curtis is the newest addition to the talented team behind Trüebadour, joining as an executive producer.The film stars Kevin Kreider and Ryan Bergara and is Bergara’s first leading role in a feature film. Additional cast members announced thus far include Gina Su, Matt Gottlieb, Tom Herrick, and Zhang herself.

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Trüebadour is based on Autopilot, a sci-fi short film also written and directed by Zhang. With two feature films under her belt,...

Exclusive: Ryan Bergara and Kevin Kreider will star in Jennifer Zhang’s sci-fi thriller Trüebadour, set to begin shooting in April.

Jamie Lee Curtis has also come onboard as an executive producer.

The film marks the feature lead acting debut of Ryan Bergara, known for his new media network Watcher Entertainment and series like Buzzfeed Unsolved and Ghost Files.

Kreider will also be joining the cast, which includes Gina Su, Matt Gottlieb and Tom Herrick.

Trüebadour is Zhang’s third feature and the story follows the disturbing implosion of a tech start up after an innovative AI “storytelling” device is introduced into the company.

Zhang’s previous works include Charon, which was shot on an iPhone 8 on a micro budget, and in isolation during the pandemic in 2020, as well as 2022 short film, Fetish.

NextShark Studios has boarded the production, with founder Benny Luo executive producing...

Were currently in the heart of the spooky season. That means it's the perfect time to watch all your favorite horror movies and TV shows. On the reality side of the haunting equation, paranormal series like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures have become extremely popular over the last two decades. However, when it comes to paranormal comedies, no one has done it better than Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej. The ghost hunting dynamic duo have brought their investigative talents to their latest series Ghost Files, which just premiered its third season in September. Now, as fans continue their countdown to Halloween, the Watcher channel has renewed Ghost Files for Season 4.

Nick Jonas’ The Good Half is your run-of-the-mill indie grief film that attempts to bring to the forefront how humor can help one overcome sorrow. Unfortunately, the film comes across as a half-hearted attempt at bringing to life a character we’re meant to be more curious about but don’t get enough of. Ryan Bergara, what are you doing here? I’m not going to lie, never seen a better cameo (I wish we could bring back “Buzzfeed Unsolved”). The Good Half tells the story of a grieving family when the mother prematurely passes away from cancer. It’s mainly from the point of view of Renn, Lily’s son and her favorite, for obvious reasons. Renn’s an LA-based beat-down writer who has a day job to pay the bills. He gets the dreaded call from his sister and has to return home to Cleveland amidst the noise...

A reserved man with some unresolved childhood issues returns to his hometown for the funeral of a parent. This isn’t only the premise at the heart of Robert Schwartzman’s well-meaning yet timid feature “The Good Half,” but also a recurrent foundation on which many a melancholic American dramedy, from “Elizabethtown” to “Garden State” to “This Is Where I Leave You.”

Pointing out this thematic repetition isn’t necessarily to knock down one of cinema’s favorite topics — after all, familial grief is among the most shared and relatable of human aches. And what are movies, if not an echo of those experiences? But you still go into a film like “The Good Half” hoping that it has something of its own to say on the pains of bereavement. Instead, it just lands like a medley of similar films that came before it.

“No one ever told me that...

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra couple up on the red carpet at the premiere screening for his new movie The Good Half held at Saban Theatre on Tuesday (August 13) in Beverly Hills, Calif.

The 31-year-old actor and musician stars in the movie, which is returning to theaters on August 16th with a wider release.

He was joined at the premiere by co-stars Brittany Snow, Alexandra Shipp, David Arquette, Matt Walsh, Elizabeth Shue, Ryan Bergara and Mimi Gianopulos, with her husband Brett Ryland, who wrote the movie based on his own experience, as well as director Robert Schwartzman.

In addition, Nick‘s younger brother and Claim to Fame co-host Franklin Jonas also showed his support, alongside girlfriend Anna Olson.

The Good Half follows Nick‘s Renn Wheeland who returns home to Cleveland for his mother’s funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems...

When the team at Watcher Entertainment announced that they would be leaving YouTube in order to post content exclusively on their own subscription-only page, they clearly thought that fans would be excited about the move.

They were very, very wrong.

The backlash against the digital media studio -- which was founded in 2020 by a trio of former Buzzfeed employees -- was swift and immediate.

Usually, an uproar from a company's customer base is the sort of thing that's met with a boilerplate apology and little else.

But in this case, the outcry on Reddit and on the group's previous YouTube posts wound up having a significant impact.

Earlier this week, Watcher's three founders -- Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Shane Madej -- made a video in which they reacted to the strong backlash against their unexpected business decision.

“We messed up,” CEO Lim said in the clip.

“We’ve been...

Last week, Watcher–the content studio founded in 2019 by former Buzzfeed-ers Ryan Bergara, Steven Lim, and Shane Madej–surprised viewers by announcing it would no longer be uploading its videos to YouTube.

Instead, it said, it would take further episodes of shows like Ghost Files, Mystery Files, and Puppet History to its own new, standalone, and paywalled platform, where fans would have to pay $6/month or $60/year to watch.

The backlash to this announcement was swift and vicious. Watcher’s YouTube channel lost more than 50,000 subscribers in 24 hours, and nearly 100,000 over the weekend. Commenters on the announcement video and across social media were particularly rankled by Lim’s assertion that the subscription service’s $6/month price had been picked because it was “low enough where anybody and everybody is able to afford it.”

Now, Watcher has rolled back this decision. In an update video, Bergara, Lim, and Madej apologized...

Watcher Entertainment is moving on from YouTube to its own subscription service. The trio of Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej, and Steven Lim have cultivated a massive following since breaking off from BuzzFeed and are officially taking the next big step with the launch of Watcher, the new home for their original series, including fan-favorites Ghost Files, Mystery Files, and Puppet History. The service is currently in its beta period from now until May 31, when Lim's new food show Travel Season with his former Worth It colleagues Andrew Ilnyckyj and Adam Bianchi launches.

MoistCr1tikal, Wendigoon, and Jackson Clarke have joined forces for a cryptid, conpiracy, and cult-themed podcast that swiftly rose to the #2 spot on U.S. podcast charts, beaten out only by longtime most-listened-to show The Joe Rogan Experience.

Each episode of Red Thread will “investigate the peculiar space just beyond reality,” according to the show’s official description.

Red Thread‘s debut ep followed an urban legend: the Goatman, already popularized on YouTube and in memes by skeptic-in-chief Shane Madej during an episode of and Ryan Bergara‘s hit series BuzzFeed Unsolved. Its second chronicles the bizarre final months of Charles Morgan, who lived a seemingly normal life until he vanished March 22, 1977, and reappeared three days later suffering from intense paranoia.

Both episodes are uploaded in video form on YouTube, with the first bringing in nearly 900,000 views, and the second bringing in just under 400,000.

According to the CEO of Mana Talent Group,...

Ghost hunting media is nothing new. Shakespeare had a tendency to include specters in his work (most famously in Hamlet), accounts of supernatural encounters have been reported in print media stretching back to the 18th century, spiritualism saw a rise in the 19th and 20th centuries, and shows like Unsolved Mysteries and Ghost Hunters have become staples of television on certain cable channels. In a 2019 poll sampling the American population, nearly half of respondents aged 18 and up said they believed in ghosts. While an interesting figure, it still leaves a slight majority of the population who do not. That's a lot of people who have been widely ignored by supernatural entertainment, at least until a few years ago. In 2016, Ryan Bergara and friend Shane Madej joined as the creative team behind Buzzfeed Unsolved: a supernatural and true crime anthology series that quickly became a coveted show for millions of viewers.

It’s almost spooky season which means it’s time to start catching up on all your favorite paranormal shows. This includes Watcher’s Ghost Files hosted by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej. Thankfully, for all you fellow Ghoul Boys and Girls out there, Season 2 is right around the haunting corner. With just a week left till the premiere, Ghost File’s just dropped its new trailer for Season 2.

Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej seem to be on top of the entertainment world. Not only have they recently launched the ultra-popular paranormal series Ghost Files, which is coming back for Season 2 later this summer, the pair of fan-favorite investigators also just finished the first season of Mystery Files this weekend. Now it’s been announced that Mystery Files will be returning for Season 2.

Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej are two of the most popular ghost hunters around. After years of hosting Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural, the pair of zany investigators created a new haunting series Ghost Files on their Watcher YouTube channel late last year. The series was another spooky success and Season 2 was quickly greenlit. Season 2’s premiering later this summer in August. However, if you can’t wait that long for a new episode, the Ghoul Boys have you covered. It’s been announced that Bergara and Madej will be returning to the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California for a special episode sponsored by Disney’s Haunted Mansion. That film releases in theaters on July 28. Better yet, this new chilling bonus episode will be premiering next Friday, June 30. This episode was previously hinted at in Collider’s own Maggie Lovitt's interview with Bergara and Madej back in May. Bergara...

As is typical for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is chock full of Easter eggs. That includes nods to figures outside the comics and events and individuals from past Marvel stories. Even real-world celebrities have found themselves rubbing shoulders with fictional superheroes more than once within the franchise.

Quantumania includes a quick one from BuzzFeed Unsolved host Ryan Bergara. It wouldn't merit mention apart from the McU's other real-world cameos, save that the Ant-Man series of movies appear to have an affinity for celebrities who rose to prominence on social media rather than older forms of discourse like television or movies. Bergara's brief nod is part of a small but notable Ant-Man tradition.

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​​​Quantumania opens with Scott Lang in a good place. He's enjoying...

Ghost hunting often is a profession that’s seen as scary and all things morbid, but not for Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej. This lovable pair of investigators had been making people laugh for years on their series Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural, but late last year they debuted their new humorous paranormal series Ghost Files. Season 2 was given the greenlight soon after and now the premiere date for the new season has been unveiled.

In the world of ghost hunting there’s no pair funnier or more enjoyable to watch than Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej. The investigators, best known for their hilarious work on Buzzfeed Unsolved, launched their new paranormal series Ghost Files on their YouTube channel Watcher late last year. Season 1 wrapped up in December, but Season 2 is already on the way. To make the wait in between seasons a bit less spooky, Watcher has released the blooper reel for Season 1, and it’s just as gut-busting as you would imagine.

When it comes to ghost hunting or mysteries, few investigators have touched the hearts of their audience like Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej. They had been delighting people for years on their series Buzzfeed Unsolved, but now on their own Watcher network the pair have recently started their newest paranormal venture Ghost Files. The series premiered its six episode first season late last year and its sister series Mystery Files is right around the corner. Now the trailer for the new series has been released giving fans a tease of the Ghoul Boys’ devilish return to good old fashion mystery solving.

The secrets of Merge Mansion elude everyone! After starring in a short film for the game as a detective Tim Rockford, Pedro Pascal takes another dig at the complicated case of Grandma Ursula, and her granddaughter Maddie. This time around he has Ashley Benson and Jesse Williams, along with online show hosts MatPat, Shane Madej, and Ryan Bergara to solve the mysteries of the titular mansion. Metacore released a new video of the group bringing the game to life.

In a few short days, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej will debut their brand-new Watcher series Mystery Files, which is the spiritual successor of their fan-favorite series Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime. Last year, the duo made waves with the launch of their ghost-hunting series Ghost Files, which went on to be nominated for a Webby. While True Crime focused on some truly gruesome cases, it sounds like Mystery Files will take a much more light-hearted approach to the cases they'll cover, which may make the new series more accessible to a wider audience.

Watcher Entertainment, the company created by ex-Buzzfeed personalities Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej, and Steven Lim, is at the forefront of revolutionizing online content creation. In 2022, a Nielsen report of streaming data revealed something astounding: YouTube was the most viewed video streaming service of the year. This meant that compared to Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, or any other site, more people were gathering around their televisions to watch YouTube videos than a new Netflix series.

If you're into anything paranormal or mystery related it's a safe bet you were a fan of the Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej-hosted YouTube series BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime. That series ran for eight seasons from 2016 to 2021, but now the pair of humorous investigators, have announced their latest BuzzFeed Unsolved spiritual successor Mystery Files which is releasing on their YouTube channel Watcher this May. Collider is also thrilled to unveil several exclusive images from the new series!

It's not easy being a kick-ass Santa Claus. Anyone can don the red suit and white gloves, but what does it take to be the ultimate butt-whooping Kris Kringle? Well, that's something Cory Wharton of MTV's The Challenge, Rdc World's Mark Phillips, and Watcher's Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej needed to learn the hard way this holiday season by attending Santa Claus Boot Camp, a no-nonsense combat training course which allowed these TV and internet personalities to get in David Harbour's boots and see what it takes to play a naughty Jolly Ole' Saint Nick in the new action-comedy, Violent Night. Grab your sledgehammer and learn a thing or two about kicking ass, Christmas style.

Two months back, web personalities and Buzzfeed Unsolved hosts Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej launched their new ghost-hunting show, simply titled Ghost Files. Bringing their usual goofy humor and fact-based approach to the table, both hosts succeed at creating immersive paranormal reality TV joining a long list of both beloved and infamous entries in this polarizing genre.

This diversity is even evident on Reddit forums where many have professed their love for cult classics such as MTV's Fear as well as parodied shows like The Mystery of the Skinwalker Ranch.

MTV's Fear (2000-2002) Stream On Vudu

One of the best MTV shows of the 2000s, MTV's Fear or simply known as Fear, was quite revolutionary for its time, arguably spawning the paranormal reality genre in its modern format. Even though it ran for only two years, the MTV original became a cult classic with its premise of contestants spending...

Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej left Buzzfeed in 2019. Their departure from Buzzfeed Unsolved left millions of fans heartbroken, but luckily the ghoul boys are back in the new YouTube channel Watcher with a new ghost-hunting series called Ghost Files.

The return of the hilarious and most beloved Internet ghost hunters has been an immediate success and their four released videos already reach millions of views. The new series has already proven to be much more fun and entertaining than its Buzzfeed predecessor, as the iconic pair have more ghost-hunting equipment, longer episodes, and significant exploration sites, and Twitter had much to say about its first videos.

The Ghoul Boys Are Back i missed drawing the boys!! they look great on their new set @wearewatcher #ghostfiles pic.twitter.com/NDrrIm1wfi — ◔◡◔ Mook ♥ (@mickmooks) October 9, 2022

The ghoul boys had been missed by their fans since they left Buzzfeed Unsolved in 2019. Three years...

Ryan Vergara and Shane Madej from Buzzfeed Unsolved, otherwise known as the Ghoul Boys, have finally returned with a new paranormal series from Watcher and it is now available on YouTube. Ghost Files welcomes back the hilarious and successful paranormal investigators who guide audiences into questioning "are ghosts real?"

But Ryan and Shane are not the only YouTubers that wonder about the existence of ghosts, demons, poltergeists, and other mysterious creatures of an unseen realm, and there are multiple YouTube channels that explore the endless possibilities of the paranormal by exploring haunted places, reviewing spooky videos or sharing fascinating cases. Fortunately, Redditors have found the best ones out there.

Nexpo

Redditor femineon named Nexpo as their favorite paranormal channel and a great amount of Redditors said the same. She then commented "not always paranormal but lots of creepy stuff" which sums up how rich the channel is in its content.

Welcome back to Dead Time! Just in time for spooky season, I was thrilled to have the opportunity to chat with Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej, also known as the Ghoul Boys. Ryan and Shane started out on Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural and Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime, where they explored reportedly haunted locations and also shared the history behind some of the most gruesome and terrifying true crime stories.

After leaving Buzzfeed, Ryan and Shane, along with their good friend Steven Lim, created Watcher, a production company and YouTube channel where they tell creepy stories on Are You Scared, along with a variety of other shows that are fun, entertaining, and even educational. Even with all the great content on Watcher, the Ghoul Boys really wanted to get back into ghost hunting. Much to the delight of their devoted fanbase, they premiered their new show Ghost Files on September 23rd. In their first episode,...

The series: Watcher's "Weird (and/or) Wonderful World"

Where to watch it: YouTube

The pitch: In this so far brief-but-beloved comedic travelogue series, host Shane Madej takes ornery sidekick Ryan Bergara around Southern California, exploring the nooks and crannies of the city of angels with all the delighted intrigue and quirky charm of the best public TV educators of the '90s. The duo, who are best known for their work on "Buzzfeed Unsolved" but who left the media giant to start their own company with "Worth It" star Steven Lim in 2019, play up their natural chemistry, curiosity, and knack for chaos in a show that sees them tour a town full of windmills and ostriches, try their hand at competitive high speed Go-Karting, and sabotage a custom soda-making challenge.

The series, which was shot before Covid-19 and hasn't aired new episodes since, is ostensibly meant to eventually expand further...

Even though it's just the beginning of October, horror fans have already consumed a lot of sweet treats this Halloween season. This includes the new series Ghost Files, which sees the return of fan-favorite paranormal investigators Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej after their previous series Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural ended last year. Even though we are only two episodes into the new series, Ghost Files is already a hit, and now it's been announced that the ghost hunting series is already coming back for Season 2.

Buzzfeed Unsolved is perhaps one of the most beloved ghost-hunting shows of the last decade. Garnering a ravenous following on social media due to their uniquely tongue-in-cheek and straightforward approach to ghost hunting, Buzzfeed Unsolved quickly elevated itself above being a simple web series. The thoughtful yet comedic delivery of research and the electric chemistry between skeptic Shane Madej and believer Ryan Bergara turned this show into an internet darling. The show was a massive success in both its Supernatural and True Crime variants but when the boys announced they would be leaving Buzzfeed to start their own company, Watcher, with fellow Buzzfeed alum Steven Lim, fans were devastated they’d have to say goodbye to the Ghoul Boys. Luckily for us, shortly after branching off on their own Ryan and Shane announced a new ghost hunting show under their own banner: Ghost Files. The new show takes the building...

The Ghoul Boys are back! Six years ago, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej launched into the pop culture conversation with their BuzzFeed Unsolved web series, which delved into unsolved true crime cases and sought to prove the existence of the supernatural—well, Ryan was trying to prove the existence, Shane was just along for the ride as the skeptic courting demonic possession at every turn. A year after the final season of Unsolved aired, Bergara and Madej have returned to the paranormal scene with Ghost Files, an exciting new series from Watcher, the production studio they founded with Steven Lim.

Halloween season is upon us and all our favorite spooky programming is back. This includes paranormal shows like Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, but the new series Ghost Files looks to take horror lovers' hearts later this month. The literal spiritual successor to Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural hosted by Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara premieres on September 23 and, to celebrate, the world’s favorite Ghoul Boys have released a spooky new trailer.

Nothing screams Halloween like a good ghost-hunting show. So with All Hallows' Eve only a week away, we decided it was time to take a closer look at the paranormal reality shows that make those little hairs on the back of our neck stand up. We know not everyone believes in ghosts and ghouls, which is why we're examining both the series that take themselves seriously and the shows unafraid to have a little fun. For instance, Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural launched its seventh and final season on Oct. 15. And even after countless investigations, hosts Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej still come off as amateur ghost hunters—in the best way. The longtime partners are unafraid to roast themselves...

BuzzFeed will premiere its eighth and final season of “BuzzFeed Unsolved: True Crime” on June 18 and its seventh and final season of “BuzzFeed Unsolved: Supernatural” this fall, TheWrap has learned exclusively.

Creators, producers and co-hosts Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej will star in six new true-crime episodes that will dive into crimes surround Princess Diana, George Reeves — who portrayed the Man of Steel in the TV series “The Adventures of Superman” in the 1950s — and more.

Over the course of five years, Bergara and Madej explored popular crimes and mysteries, amassing 16.6 billion minutes watched with over 1.3 billion cumulative views, according to BuzzFeed.

“It’s been an amazing five years hosting and executive producing, ‘BuzzFeed Unsolved.’ We were truly fortunate to have the opportunity from BuzzFeed to make this show, and I can’t even begin to describe the appreciation I have for all the support we’ve received from this...

2020, to say the least, has been a complete shitshow. The year has been weird, long, depressing, anger-inducing, and frustrating. But that dumpster fire has made the shiny parts shine bright in a way that made all the crap disappear for a few moments or hours at a time. And for that, I am grateful.

In a year that showed us that time actually has no meaning whatsoever, I know I’m not remembering half of the stuff that I watched and loved, but here are just some of the things that gave me joy, comfort, awe, or just some time away from what has become “the norm.”

Gretel & Hansel

The films of Osgood Perkins are so totally my jam. Gretel & Hansel is no exception. His fantastically creepy and twisted take on the story of two children getting lost in the woods is also a decidedly feminist piece that puts a...

Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural sees hosts Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej dissect paranormal legend of haunted location and do some investigating of their own as they travel to the locations and try to find ghouls on their own. Although there is usually a good balance of comedy and horror in the show, there are some episodes where the scale is tipped more towards horror.

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Although the scarier episodes always have comedy to ease the tension some stories are so terrifying it's difficult to get them out of your head after viewing the episode. And although we're not at the site it's still scary to see Ryan's reactions and know he's feeling true fear. Let's revisit some of the scarier episodes of the series so far.

Updated on December 20th, 2020 by Sam Hutchinson: It's been a while since the Ghoul Boys...

Since its premiere in April 2016, host Ryan Bergara has led viewers on a journey to find answers to the ongoing question “are ghosts real?” in the hit Buzzfeed Youtube series, Buzzfeed Unsolved: Supernatural. Joining him is the witty Shane Madej, who is often quick to dismiss any notion of the paranormal

Related: Buzzfeed Unsolved: 10 Funniest Shane Madej Quotes

Despite the similar set-up to other paranormal series, Buzzfeed Unsolved is charmingly down to earth, educational, and delightfully hilarious thanks to Ryan and Shane’s similar yet opposite chaotic energies that are best on display in Supernatural. Using the Internet Movie Database, here is the first season ranked by episode.

The show Buzzfeed Unsolved has two focuses on both Supernatural and True Crime. The true crime side has always had a balance between the tragedy of the cases and the laughs between the two hosts Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara.

Related: Top 10 Buzzfeed Unsolved True Crime Episodes

The comedy on the show isn't scripted and instead plays out as two friends cracking each other up as Ryan and Shane have built a hilarious rapport over the years. Let's look back at some of the funniest episodes on the true crime side so far that lean more toward the laughs!

The show Buzzfeed Unsolved has two focuses on both Supernatural and True Crime and always has a balance between the scares and the laughs as hosts Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara investigate haunted locations or discuss theories of unsolved mysteries.

Related: Top 10 Buzzfeed Unsolved Supernatural Episodes

The comedy on the show isn't unintentional or scripted and instead is a nice back and forth between the two hosts who have built a hilarious rapport over the years. Let's look back at some of the funniest episodes on the supernatural side so far that lean more toward the laughs!

The Buzzfeed Unsolved series has two focuses on true crime and supernatural, and while both can certainly be terrifying, they're both also hilarious due to the two hosts Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara.

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Shane Madej tends to serve up deadpan and outrageous humor as he continually taunts any possible ghouls or demons dwelling at haunted locations or teasing his co-host Ryan. Let's revisit some of the funniest quotes from Shane from the series so far, get ready to laugh Buckaroos!

Focusing on both true crime cases and supernatural cases the series Buzzfeed Unsolved can truly be terrifying, but it's also proved to be equally, if not more, hilarious due to the commentary of the two co-hosts Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej.

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Ryan's humor ranges from confidently deadpan to outrageously panicked to random commentary and all of it is gold. Let's revisit some of the funniest lines Ryan has said on the show so far, get ready to wheeze laugh!

Talent agency CAA has onboarded Watcher Entertainment -- the digital video upstart co-founded by longtime BuzzFeed creators Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara, and Shane Madej. CAA tells Tubefilter that it will be representing Watcher in all areas.

Watcher debuted in Jan. 2020 on YouTube with a slate of nine original series focused on food, travel, and horror. The channel, overseen by head of development Katie LeBlanc, has amassed 504,000 subscribers and has worked with brands like State Farm, Neuro, and Boba Guys (the latter two of whom are also investors in the venture).

Some of the channel’s notable series include Homemade (in which Lim learns how to cook popular dishes at different restaurants), weekly talk show Watcher Weekly, Puppet History (a quiz show about history hosted by a puppet), travel shows Tourist Trapped and Weird Wonderful World, listicle chat series Top 5 Beatdown, and Grocery Run (in which Lim pays for a stranger...

Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime usually has a good balance of comedy and tragic horror, but there are a few episodes that are truly horrifying because of the source material. Although hosts Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara always have fun and light commentary, sometimes it isn't enough to stop the bone-chilling creepiness from seeping in. The creepiest episodes are when there is random violence because it could potentially happen to anyone.

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When they talk about a case like Jimmy Hoffa or D.B. Cooper we can rationalize that a death like Hoffa's won't happen to us if we're not involved with the mob or at least no one besides Cooper was hurt when he jumped from that plane. But the randomness and horrific facts of some cases are not as easily rationalized away. Let's revisit some of the scariest cases the ghoul boys have...