In my Halloween-TV post earlier today, I mentioned local horror-movie hosts and yet inexplicably omitted The Ghoul– – Detroit’s (and OK, Cleveland’s) premier bizarre horrormeister of my youth. (Apologies, Sir Graves Ghastly.) The Ghoul and sidekick Froggy, my Midwestern readers may be glad to know, are now kicking it online, with a paid webcast to [...]

Is there any doubt that Halloween is the greatest holiday of the year? It combines the greed of Christmas with the gluttony of Thanksgiving in one paganistic package, celebrating terror, evil and death. Yet TV doesn’t go nearly as hog-wild on this most theatrical of holidays. I’ve already given a shout-out to It’s the Great [...]

He can’t predict what’s going to happen, either. BOB D’AMICO / ABC Halloween is the witching hour for the Writers’ Guild and the networks, as the midnight deadline (spooky!) looms for the strike. Today’s Variety runs down the programming scenarios. (And notes that the writers may decide to wait a week or so before walking [...]