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Jason: TAPS existed long before the show. It was crazy. Now my boys are fourteen,
This group started back in 1990. We had a turning fifteen, they have football and
TAPS home team during the show that everything else. It was nice to say enough
investigated cases that weren’t televised. In was enough with Sci-Fi Channel, which
twenty-five years, people have come and seemed to be going in a direction we didn’t
gone, but the core group is still there. Steve want to go. We were able to go off and
is still with me, Dave Tango is also with me, spend family time.
my daughters are still investigating as well,
Now we’re in talks with a couple of major
and many others that you saw on the show
networks about rebooting the show and
are with us.
changing it, the way I’ve always wanted to,
Bruce: Did you ever have plans to do a but felt I couldn’t do while we were with
TAPS movie? Sci-Fi. There’s way too many paranormal
shows out there. Some networks are
Jason: That’s a great question. There’s been
nothing but paranormal TV networks.
talk and a couple screen plays have been
written. The possibility is there. It’s one of When that begins to die down, we’ll bring
those things that, if you’re going to do it, back Ghost Hunters. There was nothing like
you want it done right. We had the great us when we first came out, and then every
Stephen Susco, the guy who wrote The network had multiple shows like us. It’s
Grudge, come in and write a screen play as nice to see some of that disappearing and
well. then we’ll bring it back.
That’s been in discussion for a while. When Bruce: What was your scariest moment
you’re talking about motion pictures there’s during your investigations?
a lot of back and forth. The cost of them and
everything else. We own the show. When
we folded the show, when we decided we
weren’t going further with the Sci-Fi
channel, we were done.
I started the show four days after my twin
sons were born. I got the call when my wife
was in the hospital. Craig Piligian called
and told me we were going to do ten
episodes for Sci-Fi. I told him my twins
were just born and he said, Jason: A lot of people don’t realize that
“Congratulations, we won’t start filming TAPS does a lot of investigations under
right now. It will be about a week.” confidentiality agreements. We do that for
