From The Age Newspaper, Melbourne Australia, Thursday April 17, 2008

'American ghost hunter Josh Gates is in Thailand, and the lack of respect he shows towards the country and its people is quite striking. He's particularly patronising about a couple of Thai villagers who say that they've chased a ghost into a bamboo tube and have kept it incarcarated by covering the end with a holy cloth – but are their beliefs any sillier than Gates' belief that he can catch ghosts using infra-red cameras?

'The villagers, Gates scoffs, would probably try to catch Bigfoot using a banana and a lasso. Well, have you got a better idea, smart-arse? And so – the Mekong River is a "pool of acid full of malaria, SARS and bubonic plague" and a woman who claims to have video of the mythical naga swimming the river "has obviously never heard of YouTube" because the only way to see the video is to go her house. Maybe he's trying to be funny, but it leaves a very bad taste.'

Comparing a comedy program to a 'reality' investigative tv show?

Or, am I missing the point and you are saying that the two shows are essentially the same?  Light entertainment.