TBS and TNT have unveiled their spooky Halloween time lineup of programming – from classic episodes of Family Matters to scary movies like The Nun and IT.
TBS
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION
Friday, October 23 at 1:00AM ET/PT
Still reeling from the death of one of their daughters, a family settles into a new home, only to realize that something intends to harness their grief for sinister purposes.
THE NUN
Saturday, October 24 at 1:00PM ET/PT
When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together, they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
IT
Saturday, October 24 at 3:00PM ET/PT
When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids is faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries. Based on the novel by Stephen King.
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Saturday, October 24 at 11:30PM & 1:15AM ET/PT
Three student documentary filmmakers venture into Maryland’s Black Hills to discover the truth behind the myth of the Blair Witch — and never return. The only trace of their disappearance comes one year later when their film footage, documenting their final terrifying days, is found.
AMERICAN DAD
Friday, October 30 at 3:00PM – 4:00PM ET/PT
3:00 PM ET/PT – “Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls”
After hosting the scariest haunted house in the neighborhood for years, Stan is threatened by a competitive neighbor.
3:30 PM ET/PT – “Poltergasm”
Steve and Roger discover that the house is haunted. The ghost appears as an apparition of a younger Francine. The ghost grows more powerful until it attacks Hayley’s boyfriend and pulls him into the netherworld.
FAMILY GUY
Friday, October 30 at 4:00PM – 5:30PM ET/PT
4:00 PM ET/PT – “Halloween on Spooner Street”
On Halloween, Stewie plots revenge after his candy is taken away by bullies; Meg determines to use a Halloween disguise as a means of hooking up with a boy; Peter and Joe target Quagmire for Halloween pranks.
4:30 PM ET/PT – “Quagmire’s Quagmire”
Quagmire purchases a new laptop, which promptly gets infected by viruses from all of the dirty websites he visits. When he takes it in to be fixed, the technician, Sonja, is unfazed by his browser history and actually recommends alternate sites. Impressed, Quagmire asks her out on a date.
5:00 PM ET/PT – “Peternormal Activity”
After watching a bad sequel to their favorite horror film, Maniac Pope, Peter and the guys decide they could write a better scary movie themselves.
BOB’S BURGERS
Friday, October 30 at 5:30PM – 8:00PM ET/PT
5:30 PM ET/PT – “Full Bars”
The Belcher kids break their Halloween tradition by ditching their usual trick-or-treating route and venturing off to Kingshead Island, a posh neighborhood that is known for distributing full-sized candy bars. Meanwhile, Bob and Linda attend Teddy’s annual “Black and Orange” party.
6:00 PM ET/PT – “Fort Night”
Tina, Gene and Louise are filled with the Halloween spirit and head out with their friends for a candy-fueled adventure. However, things take a turn for the worse when the kids build their own fort and find themselves held hostage by Louise’s wacko friend, Millie.
6:30 PM ET/PT – “Tina and the Real Ghost”
Tina begins an out-of-this-world romance with a ghost that is believed to be living in the Belcher’s basement. And when Bob realizes that an in-house ghost may increase revenues, he too becomes a fan of the paranormal entity.
7:00 PM ET/PT – “The Hauntening”
The Belchers are ready for an amazing Halloween! After Louise insists that sheÆs never been scared before, Bob and Linda reveal their plans to visit a special haunted house that just might rectify the situation. But when trouble ensues following their visit, the Belchers find themselves in a zany situation more frightening than they bargained for!
7:30 PM ET/PT – “Teen-a Witch”
With Halloween quickly approaching, Tina reveals her brilliant idea that will finally win her first place in the annual costume contest. But when Tammy steals her idea, Tina is forced to seek the help of Mr. Ambrose, who leads her to alternate and otherworldly methods of winning. Meanwhile, Bob is on a mission to figure out who is stealing his perfectly crafted pumpkins.
FAMILY MATTERS
Saturday, October 31 at 6:00AM -8:00AM ET/PT
6:00 AM ET/PT – “Dog Day Halloween”
When Laura and Steve venture to the bank to deposit their paychecks on Halloween, they end up hostages in a robbery.
6:30 AM ET/PT – “Whose Kid Is It Anyway?”
Eddie promises to take Richie trick-or-treating but leaves him with Waldo, who loses the boy.
7:00 AM ET/PT – “Best Friends”
Eddie hires his good friend, Waldo, to work at Mighty Weenie and then considers discharging Waldo because he’s horrible at the job. Laura is embarrassed by her mother.
7:30 AM ET/PT – “Stevil”
Ventriloquist Steve’s look-alike dummy comes to life on Halloween.
GEORGE LOPEZ
Saturday, October 31 at 8:00AM -10:00AM ET/PT
8:00 AM ET/PT – “Halloween Cheer”
George gets ready for his favorite spooky holiday while stressing over hiring a worker whose life is a complete disaster.
8:30 AM ET/PT – “No One Gets Out Alive”
The Lopezes turn their home into a haunted house on Halloween in order to raise money for the factory workers who have lost their salaries as a result of a plane crash investigation.
9:00 AM ET/PT – “Leave It to Lopez”
Failure to buy life insurance prompts George’s obsession with death, surfacing in nightmares that hark back to his childhood television fixation.
9:30 AM ET/PT – “Trick or Treat Me Right”
When Benny’s abusive comments and behavior grow worse, George finds it impossible to laugh things off and threatens make some big changes.
SEINFELD
Saturday, October 31 at 10:00AM -12:00PM ET/PT
10:00 AM ET/PT – “The Opera”
Unaware her beau is a mad stalker, Jerry takes Elaine to the opera.
10:30 AM ET/PT – “The Face Painter”
Elaine’s boyfriend’s behavior at a hockey game appalls her and Jerry.
11:00 AM ET/PT – “The Blood”
Jerry’s parents notice his weight gain and ask Izzy to train him.
11:30 AM ET/PT – “The Frogger”
Elaine eats Peterman’s cake; Kramer helps George steal an arcade game.
BROOKLYN NINE-NINE
Saturday, October 31 at 12:00PM -2:30PM ET/PT
12:00 PM ET/PT – “Halloween”
Unhappy Amy must wear a costume to go on patrol with Charles; Jake bets Holt he can steal his Medal of Valor.
12:30 PM ET/PT – “Halloween II”
Jake challenges Capt. Holt that he can steal his watch; Gina is upset about getting kicked off her dance team; Terry confronts Gina about her attitude.
1:00 PM ET/PT – “Halloween Part 3”
Holt and Peralta compete for the title of amazing detective slash genius in their third annual Halloween heist.
1:30 PM ET/PT – “Halloween IV”
The squad compete in the precinct’s annual Halloween heist in hopes of winning this year’s title of Ultimate Detective Slash Genius.
2:00 PM ET/PT – “HalloVeen”
The Nine-Nine embarks on its fifth annual Halloween Heist and, as usual, everybody has a plan and no one is safe. Relationships and friendships are tested as the title Amazing Human Slash Genius must be snagged by midnight, leaving everyone pitted against each other.
I AM LEGEND
Saturday, October 31 at 2:30PM ET/PT
Will Smith, Alice Braga, Dash Mihok, Willow Smith. Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable and manmade. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City, and maybe the world. But he is not alone. He is surrounded by “the Infected”-victims of the plague who have mutated into carnivorous beings who can only exist in the dark and who will devour or infect anyone or anything in their path. For three years, Neville has spent his days scavenging for food and supplies and faithfully sending out radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. All the while, the Infected lurk in the shadows, watching Neville’s every move, waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But his blood is also what The Infected hunt, and Neville knows he is outnumbered and quickly running out of time.
GODZILLA
Saturday, October 31 at 4:30PM ET/PT
Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, C.J. Adams, Elizabeth Olsen. The government tried to destroy him in 1954, dropping nuclear bombs into the Pacific Ocean under the pretense of weapons testing. Instead, mankind, in its ignorance, awakened a new terror. Now, Godzilla rises again to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.
RAMPAGE
Saturday, October 31 at 7:00PM ET/PT
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, an extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla that’s been in his care since birth. When a rogue genetic experiment goes wrong, it causes George, a wolf and a reptile to grow to a monstrous size. As the mutated beasts embark on a path of destruction, Okoye teams up with a discredited genetic engineer and the military to secure an antidote and prevent a global catastrophe. Based on the video game.
BIG BANG THEORY
Saturday, October 31 at 9:00PM -11:00PM ET/PT
9:00 PM ET/PT – “The Middle Earth Paradigm”
Penny hosts a Halloween party putting Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz and Koothrappali through a new test of their social skills.
9:30 PM ET/PT – “The Good Guy Fluctuation”
Sheldon tries to spook his friends on Halloween.
10:00 PM ET/PT – “The Holographic Excitation”
The gang celebrates Halloween at Stuart’s comic book store. Meanwhile Leonard and Penny discover a new spark in their relationship when he seduces her with science.
10:30 PM ET/PT – “The Imitation Perturbation”
When Howard dresses up as Sheldon for Halloween, Sheldon seeks retaliation at Leonard and Penny’s Halloween Party. Leonard is shocked that Penny doesn’t remember their first kiss.
TNT
SUPERNATURAL
Saturday, October 31 at 2:00am -12:00pm ET/PM
1:58 AM ET/PT – “Monster Movie”
Sam and Dean investigate a town plagued with monsters from classic black-and-white horror movies.
2:59 AM ET/PT – “Plucky Pennywhistle’s Magical Menagerie”
Sam confronts his childhood fear of clowns when he and Dean investigate a children’s pizza chain that’s manifesting the worst (and deadliest) fears of the local kids.
4:00 AM ET/PT – “The Kids Are Alright”
Sam and Dean track down Changelings that are pursuing mothers and their children. A boy they. protect bears a strange resemblance to Dean, which at first makes Dean uncomfortable because he once had a one-night stand with the boy’s mother Lisa.
5:00 AM ET/PT – “Roadkill”
A woman named Molly and her husband are driving down the highway and swerve to miss a farmer who’s walking down the road. Their car hits a tree and when Molly wakes up her husband is missing. Sam and Dean discover Molly and find out that the farmer haunts the highway and Molly is most likely his next victim. Sam and Dean set off to stop the farmer before he can claim her.
6:00 AM ET/PT – “No Exit”
Sam and Dean investigate the slayings of blonde women and find that the ghost of the first known serial killer in US history is responsible. Jo disobeys Ellen’s wishes and follows them along, and is captured by the ghost.
7:00 AM ET/PT – “Scarecrow”
Sam and Dean’s father sends them to a small town where the citizens sacrifice couples to a pagan god which manifests through a scarecrow.
8:00 AM ET/PT – “Family Remains”
Sam and Dean investigate a house occupied by a female ghost, but when a new family moves in things take a turn for the worse.
9:00 AM ET/PT – “Bloody Mary”
A man dies of a stroke in front of a mirror but Sam and Dean believe something, or someone else (Bloody Mary), may be behind his death. Dean tries to help Sam open up about his girlfriend’s death, particularly after Sam lets it slip that there’s some information that he hasn’t told Dean
10:00 AM ET/PT – “Mint Condition”
Dean continues to struggle. Sam must think fast when action figures come to life, and our heroes find themselves living in a real-life horror movie.
11:00 AM ET/PT – “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester”
Sam and Dean meet Castiel and his fellow angel Uriel, who warn the brothers to avoid intervening in a town where a witch is attempting to summon the demon Samhain, opening one of the Seals.
DISTURBIA
Saturday, October 31 at 12:00pm ET/PT
Shia LaBeouf, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Viola Davis, Matt Craven.
Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem–he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison. And jail cells don’t have video games or cable. Life hasn’t always been like this for him. A year ago, Kale and his mom and dad were a tight knit, happy family. Then his father was killed in a car accident, for which Kale feels somewhat responsible. The trauma has had long-lasting psychological effects. The once outgoing young man is now shut down and withdrawn. When an insensitive teacher brings up his father, Kale loses it and punches him out. Only the intercession of his mother kept him out of jail. Now he’s going stir crazy in his own house while his mother tries to keep things together by working day and night. As the walls start to close in, Kale starts to notice the world outside. With some secondhand surveillance equipment he begins spying on his neighbors, most prominently Ashley, who soon catches on to him. To his surprise however, she becomes interested in his stakeout hobby. What starts out as a game turns deadly serious when Kale and Ashley begin to suspect that one of their neighbors may be an elusive serial killer. But who’s going to believe them? It may just be their overactive imagination.
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
Saturday, October 31 at 2:30pm & 4:15pm ET/PT
Three student documentary filmmakers venture into Maryland’s Black Hills to discover the truth behind the myth of the Blair Witch — and never return. The only trace of their disappearance comes one year later when their film footage, documenting their final terrifying days, is found.
THE NUN
Saturday, October 31 at 6:00pm ET/PT & 1:00am ET/PT
Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet. When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together, they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.
THE MEG
Saturday, October 31 at 8:00pm & 10:30pm ET/PT
Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson. Previously thought to be extinct, a massive creature attacks a deep-sea submersible, leaving it disabled and trapping the crew at the bottom of the Pacific. With time running out, a visionary oceanographer recruits rescue diver Jonas Taylor to save the crew and the sea itself from an unimaginable threat — a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon. Based on the novel by Steve Alten.
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IMPRACTICAL JOKERS: DINNER PARTY
MID-SEASON PREMIERE
Thursday, October 29 at 10:00PM ET/PT
Happy Halloween! The Jokers are all dressed up with nowhere to go. This week, Murr, Q, Sal and Joe are having a Halloween-themed dinner party and they’re surprising each other with elaborate costumes. While they enjoy their “scary-themed” meals, special guest Kane Hodder (a.k.a. Jason Voorhees from the Halloween series) joins the gang. This episode is so good… it’s scary.
