WB Goes Spooky for Halloween

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

The WB Television Network will pre-empt its regular Friday-night sitcom lineup Oct. 24 in favor of its first-ever original Halloween lineup, featuring A Scooby-Doo Halloween
, Bugs Bunny’s Howl-oween Special
and The WB’s Outrageous Halloween Outtakes
.

A Scooby-Doo Halloween at 8 p.m. and the Bugs Bunny
special at 8:30 p.m. were both produced by Warner Bros. Animation, with the Howl-oween
special featuring Hanna-Barbera Inc. characters.

Anthony Anderson of The WB’s All About the Andersons
will host the outtake special at 9 p.m., featuring clips from The Exorcist
, The Howling
, Young Frankenstein
and The X-Files
.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.