Destination Truth From 2007 to 2012, Gates was the host of
Destination Truth on
Syfy. The series premiered its second season with its best-ever telecast, delivering 1.7 million total viewers and making the show the highest-rated second season performance by a reality series on Syfy. The series ended after its fifth season. In 2008, Gates traveled to
Walt Disney World in
Florida to meet with
Joe Rohde, Executive Designer of
Walt Disney Imagineering. Gates presented Rohde with a cast of the "Yeti" footprint found during a
Destination Truth episode. The cast is on display at Expedition Everest, a
Himalayan-themed, high-speed, coaster-like attraction where guests come face-to-face with a
Yeti. As of May 2017, episodes of
Destination Truth were being aired on Travel Channel.
Ghost Hunters Gates hosted eight live specials for the television series
Ghost Hunters and its spin-off
Ghost Hunters International (1 episode). He also acted as a guest investigator on four episodes. He produces the related
Ghost Nation series featuring former
Ghost Hunters members
Jason Hawes, Steve Gonsalves, and Dave Tango. In 2007, Gates hosted the
Ghost Hunters Live Halloween special, and in 2008 he made a guest-appearance on the mid-first-season finale episode of
Ghost Hunters International. He returned as the host of
Ghost Hunters Live in 2008, where he helmed the live seven-hour broadcast from
Fort Delaware, a Civil War POW camp in
Delaware Bay. Both seasons garnered high ratings and 2008's show made Syfy the #1 cable network in prime-time on Halloween night. Gates also returned as host of the
Ghost Hunters Live Halloween specials in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Gates also hosted
Ghost Hunters Live 100th episode special from the stage of Saturday Night Live in 30 Rockefeller Center, during which the TAPS team investigated
Alcatraz Prison. Gates hosted two round-table interviews with
Ghost Hunters in 2007 ("Revelations") and 2008 ("All Access").
Expedition Unknown Gates has hosted and executive produced
Expedition Unknown on
Discovery Channel after having moved from
Travel Channel, since January 2015, and is in its 16th season as of November 5, 2025. In 2020, a
COVID-19 pandemic at-home variant of the show was created to fill the end of the season, and further network airtime, called
Josh Gates Tonight, in which Gates video conferences with guests about travel and life. On October 17, 2025,
Expedition Unknown won the 2025 Daytime Emmy Award for best travel and adventure show.
Expedition: Back to the Future In 2021, a four-part special of
Expedition: Unknown was created titled
Expedition: Back to the Future. In the series, Gates along with actor
Christopher Lloyd set out to try and find the six other
DeLorean Time Machines that were used during the filming of the
Back to the Future movies, with the aim of donating one to
The Michael J. Fox Foundation to sell off at auction to help raise money for research into
Parkinson's disease.
Other television In 2002, Josh Gates was a contestant on
Beg, Borrow & Deal, a reality/game show on
ESPN. In 2006, he starred in
Truly Famous, a series sponsored by
Budweiser. In May 2012, Josh was in 2 episodes of
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files where he investigated paranormal activity. Gates was the creator, executive producer, and narrator of
Stranded, a paranormal
reality television series that premiered on the SyFy channel in February 2013. Gates produced the show in cooperation with
Jason Blum of
Blumhouse Productions. Since relocating to Los Angeles, Gates has appeared in a number of television advertisements like Coke and Ozark Trail. He appeared in a national commercial for
BMW as part of a campaign launched by Publicis New York and BMW USA. Gates has also appeared in commercials for
EA Sports video games, Dish Network, and
Stanley Tools. Gates also works as a voice-over artist and can be heard as the narrator of
Time Warner's audio-book of ''A Brother's Journey,'' a memoir by
Richard B. Pelzer. Gates' narration was awarded the Earphones Award by
Audiofile Magazine which celebrates exceptional audio presentations that excel in narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for the audio format and enhancement of the text. In February 2020, Gates premiered a new show
Expedition X where fellow paranormal researcher
Jessica Chobot and scientist Phil Torres investigate paranormal reports and other mysterious phenomena. In April 2020, Gates premiered a new talk show,
Josh Gates Tonight, where he videoconference interviews people from around the globe, including those previously featured on Expedition: Unknown, and, travel and adventure figures. The new show was created to fill airtime due to the interruption of productions caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic, and could be filmed while isolated during lockdown and travel restrictions. ==References==