Only 5 episodes this season?

Yep. All signs seem to point to this being a done duck, which sucks. I don't think it would have run for much longer anyway. There are only so many bizarre locations they could go to in search of monsters and ghosts but there are definitely a lot more cases they could have looked into before the show ended. It still had potential and SciFi seems to have no problems in flogging dead horses so why they pulled the plug on this now I don't know. I hope there are more episodes left and they are just splitting the seasons for some reason or another.

Ryder having another show concerned me but I'm pretty sure there was like a year/year and a half between filming and airing of this season so it's to be expected that she'd find another project in the mean time. Also, she has been the most consistent assistant but she's disappeared before so the show shouldn't really have suffered for her absence.

It seems something funny is going on though, sucks that no one has said anything yet. Hopefully someone will see fit to ask Josh about it this weekend when he's at that the MI Paracon and report back to us lesser beings.

Agreed! DT had/has great potential in that the host is a great draw to the show and the locations make what would otherwise be "just another paranormal show" become something different and quite unique. I think it would have been interesting to see what really goes on in the investigations too. It's so heavily edited I think the viewer missed out on a lot of TV gold. If you read Josh's book you can see that there is a hell of a lot more to this show than what we see in 45 minutes. It's a shame that they didn't do more with that side of things because the unique obstacles they face in these places is what makes the show great.

As for Fact or Faked...urgh! I got into DT by watching an ass load of episodes in a row and loved them all. It never felt old because it was always different and something funny to look forward to.I did the exact same thing with FoF got about half the way through the series and was dying. It is so repetitive it pains me. The best bit of that show is the first 10 minutes when they look at the videos they've gathered for show and tell. To me, the show lost ALL credibility when they went out to Argentina to investigate that alien behind the news reporter. I was screaming at the TV that it was friggin' GCI, it was blatant! The same sometimes applies to DT because you know a lot of these monsters are bull before they even cut to the gear packing montage. But Josh and the makes it worth watching with what they get up to in any given country.