Andrew Haskell Saves Television - Halloween 2019
- Andrew Haskell
- Oct 31, 2019
- 3 min read

The man who loves television more than anyone on the planet, Andrew E. Haskell, breaks down the week in TV in order to save and preserve the greatest medium in human history. He won't stop until you put him on TV.
Flipping Through
WWE, now featured on Fox, hosted their draft to decide which wrestlers will be featured on USA Network’s Monday Night Raw and Fox’s Friday Night Smackdown. In a shocking trade USA Network traded World Champion Seth Rollins for Fox NFL’s Terry Bradshaw and Rob Riggle. When asked what excites them most about moving to the world of pro wrestling, Riggle spoke about the costumes and pyrotechnics while Bradshaw was excited to go re-enter a locker room with rampant steroid use
ABC hosted "Cast from the Past" week, where their shows hosted reunions of current shows hosting casts from past shows. It's been reported that that OJ Simpson declined to do a reunion for Roots, it’s not yet known if it had anything to do with the reunion being hosted on an episode of How To Get Away With Murder. Other reunions included The Drew Carey Show, Cheers, and The Blues Brothers, while some had said it was in bad taste to a 3 hour live stream of Roseanne Barr waiting by the phone
South Park took shots at China and followed it up but taking shot at LeBron James for his comments on the Hong Kong protesters. LeBron is shocked considering his success with fat dudes with funny voices, Brian Windhorst could not be reached for comment.
Kurt Sutter was fired from FX for reportedly being an “abrasive dick”. Abrasive Dick is also expected to be the name of the Robert Ailes porn parody
On to some Halloween specials news, The Simpsons aired their first Treehouse of Horror special as a Disney property, to really scare their new parent company they just showed 30 minutes of Song of the South
Family Guy hosted a Disney reboot special, it was just a compilation of all their past jokes about Jewish people.
Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween aired Hocus Pocus over 30 times this year in case you were wondering what that single receptionist at your office did over 30 times this year.
Andrew’s Pitch to Disney+
Avengers Endfame- This docuseries follows the lives of the characters in the MCU after their 15 minutes of fame ends. After initially cashing in and selling her story, Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) is now broke and working as a waitress. Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) was once hailed as an importance piece of the S.H.I.E.L.D. ranks but like most beautiful blondes that have left a political agency she’s now a host on Fox News. Finally, Harley, who was once close enough to Tony Stark to get invited to his intimate funeral ceremony, wrote a book about his time helping save the former hero. But once that money ran dry he turned to porn, performing under the name…..Ironman
Facts from the Vault (A Collection of Lesser Known TV Facts Throughout the Years)
Before settling on the name ESPN the working title for the 24/7 sports station was “Sporty Sports Guys”
The classic Disney Channel Halloween hit Halloweentown almost featured an actual vampire but she instead opted to star in Shakespeare in Love
The most watched network primetime series of the 2017 calendar year will be Sunday Night Football. The least watched that year was CBS’s Hemorrhoids with the Stars
In the history of American Idol they have seen over 1 million auditions, it’s been determined that only 20 of them have been 4 Cocker Spaniels in a trench coat
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