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“Roseanne” is Coming Back and We May Get a New Halloween Episode!

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I am smiling from ear to ear right now. Literally. Not even kidding.

So Deadline just announced that Roseanne, like other beloved ’80s/’90s series’, is next up on the revival slate, with a planned 8-episode limited series headed our way at some point in the foreseeable future. The original cast, including Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Sara Gilbert and Laurie Metcalf will all be back, which is hugely exciting for me on a personal level. Why, you ask? Roseanne is my all-time favorite sitcom, and I can often be found riding the couch and revisiting my favorite episodes. Many of my favorites, as you might expect, are set on Halloween.

Back in September of last year I wrote an article titled Celebrating the Many “Roseanne” Halloween Specials, and I explained just how influential the show’s Halloween-themed episodes were at the time and still continue to be. Before “Roseanne” came along, shows didn’t really have Halloween specials – today, you’d be hard-pressed to find a series that doesn’t celebrate.

Eight Halloween specials aired throughout the original run of “Roseanne”; and with the show getting a revival, we can only speculate that we’ll be getting a new Conner family Halloween celebration in the process. After all, the “Roseanne” Halloween episodes continue to be the show’s most popular and fondly remembered, so why the hell wouldn’t they make a new one?!

Multiple networks including ABC and Netflix are currently bidding on the revival. Next month marks the 20th anniversary of the series finale… which will probably have to be ret-conned.

After all, Dan needs to be brought back to life.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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