Warner Bros. Discovery is having into the spooky spirit early, setting the Halloween-themed programming slate for its cable networks, which consists of the linear debut of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman,” as properly as new and returning specials and movie marathons across Food Network, Discovery Channel, TNT, TBS, TCM, Travel Channel and Cartoon Community/Adult Swim.
The chief in Warner Bros. Discovery’s Halloween-themed programming match, Food stuff Network is bringing back 4 popular sequence and two specials, together with “Halloween Baking Championship,” “Halloween Wars,” “Outrageous Pumpkins,” “Halloween Cookie Challenge” and “Kids Baking Championship: Bloodcurdling Bakes.”
The cable debut of “The Batman” on TNT will air as component of a curated Halloween-themed film block throughout equally TNT and TBS in September and October, with TNT showing “Godzilla,” “The Mummy” and a “Scream” movie marathon, and TBS airing “Beetlejuice,” “Gremlins” and “Goonies.”
Hosts Duff Goldman and Rosanna Pansino, portrait, as witnessed on “Halloween Cookie Challenge” Year 2.
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On Discovery Channel, paranormal investigators Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, Jay Wasley and Billy Tolley will surface in the two-hour exclusive “Ghost Adventures: Devil Island” on Sept. 27. The channel will also air five new episodes of “Ghost Adventures” starting Oct. 4 with a spinoff companion sequence, “Ghost Adventures: Screaming Place,” debuting Oct.18. Supplemental spooky Discovery collection airing September by October contain “Expedition X,” “Schock Doc: Yeti Massacare” and “Expedition Bigfoot.”
More than on TCM (which has acquired a great deal programming consideration from Warner Bros. Discovery considering the fact that backlash to downsizing at the community in June), a “Creepy Cinema” assortment of features will air every Tuesday commencing Oct. 3. The movies will be launched by actor Mario Cantone and TCM host Ben Mankiewicz. Starting Oct. 6, the network also will spotlight Gothic motion pictures every Friday and will add its “Creepy Comedies” lineup to the plan on Sunday, Oct. 29. “TCM’s Terror-Thon” will air for 48 hrs straight Oct. 30-31.
Cartoon Network will be airing a month-very long “Scoobtober” celebration showcasing “Scooby-Doo”-themed programming commencing Oct. 1. A Halloween-themed episode of “Teen Titans Go!” will premiere Oct. 7.
Commencing in September, Journey Channel will aspect new seasons and episodes of Zak Bagans and Eli Roth’s terrifying film anthology collection “The Haunted Museum,” “Jack Osbourne’s Night of Terror,” “Paranormal Caught on Digicam,” “The Lifeless Files” and “The Ghost Town Terror.”
“Food Network’s Halloween lineup grows network scores by far more than 50 p.c when series like ‘Halloween Wars,’ ‘Outrageous Pumpkins,’ ‘Halloween Cookie Challenge’ or ‘Kids Baking Championship: Bloodcurdling Bakes’ hit the air and guide appropriate into the holiday time — serving as a valuable gateway for the community considering the fact that every solitary Halloween sequence that we put on hits the top 5 in scores,” Warner Bros. Discovery chairman and main material officer of US Networks Group Kathleen Finch advised Range. “We’re utilizing a very similar technique with networks across our portfolio mainly because we see seasonal articles as a major possibility to mature audience share in Q4.”
Finch included, “We’ve found a incredible upside to including seasonal programming as section of our portfolio’s material method — if it would make sense for an unique manufacturer. We really do not power it. We appear for authentic, natural and organic techniques to build an viewers by delivering content that they simply cannot resist, and it will work.”