If you have watched youngsters groping and griping on camera and wondered which way reality TV is headed, tune into the same channel that created Emotional Atyachaar, every Sunday at 7pm. UTV Bindass that famously turned jasoos for people suspecting their partners of cheating on them is now building bridges with the supernatural. The bridge is a chair set in a haunted house.

A horror show called The Chair claims to seek answers to questions which few would have associated with a reality programme, that too in a contest format. “Ever wonder what the sub-conscious mind holds? Is there a way to access this information? What happens when the living meet the dead?” asks the official webpage. “We are trying something new. The genre is so spooky that we thought we might as well do it in haunted locations,” says Nikhil Gandhi, the channel’s business head.

So week after week viewers are being taken to locations where there has been a death due to unforeseen circumstances. Three contestants are being let loose in the house all by themselves with bullet infra-red cameras, which can record in the dark, attached to their bodies. The chance to interact with the supernatural (via hypnosis by a psychic speaking on the earphone) comes to the one who reaches the chair first.

“The treatment and feel of the show will be like in Love Sex Aur Dhokha, which was fiction shot as reality,” Gandhi says.

What happens if…er, the spirit refuses to manifest itself? There are a few “reserve” locations, channel sources say!