June 5th, 2009 by CVPI

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Maureen Hancock says she’s a pretty typical mom. She gets her two sons off to school each morning, plays kickball in the afternoons and puts dinner on the table at night.

Oh, and she also gets messages from dead people.

Hancock hears voices and sees things from spirits and passes it to loved ones here on Earth. It’s specific stuff, she says, with names and dates.

“It’s not just, ‘Does anyone know of someone who died in a traffic wreck?’ ” she said.

The self-described “Medium Mom” hosts shows to bring the living and departed together using her psychic powers. Called Postcards from Heaven, the next one is set for June 13 at the Don CeSar Beach Resort and Spa.

During the shows, Hancock, 41, scans the audience listening for voices trying to send a message to a particular person. “I’ll hear something like, ‘I’m her mother. I’m her mother. Ask her about Betty,”’ Hancock said.

The messages are comforting, uplifting and never bad. (Only God is privy to that information, she says.) When the mood gets too tense, as it often does, Hancock, a former stand-up comic, throws in some humor.

Hancock hopes people leave with a better understanding of death and a new outlook about living life to the fullest. A practicing Catholic, she wants the living to know death is not the end.

“I have a lot of faith,” she said recently from her home in Massachusetts. “I’m coming from a different place than a lot of psychics. I don’t even like to associate myself with psychics. I’m very upbeat. I help plant the seed of hope that there is something else.”

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May 20th, 2009 by CVPI

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Despite earlier reports of renewal, it was revealed this week that NBC has elected to cancel the Patricia Arquette paranormal series Medium after all. CBS, whose corporate sibling CBS Studios produces the show, is now reported to be picking it up.

Industry media is positioning the story as a feud between NBC and CBS. NBC co-chair Ben Silverman amazed everyone when he called Medium, created by Glenn Gordon Caron, “an aging franchise, without a single fan letter, with no passion.” Harsh!

“NBC’s cancellation of Medium is inexplicable to us,” CBS Studios responded in a statement. “The ratings don’t lie: Medium outperforms many of NBC’s renewed shows. We believe the show has a significant future and await developments.”

CBS Studios has reportedly convinced CBS Network to pick up the show. Of course, CBS already has a somewhat similar paranormal series, the high-rated Ghost Whisperer, after which Medium is being slotted (Fridays at 9, before Numb3rs). But savvy marketing will certainly package them as a Friday night ghost-watcher bloc, and Ghost as a lead-in should deliver a good audience to Medium.

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