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‘Halloween Baking Championship’ & ‘Halloween Wars’ Return to Food Network Next Month
Food Network is cooking up some spooky fun with the return of “Halloween Baking Championship” and “Halloween Wars” next month.
“Halloween Baking Championship” Season 11 kicks off with a two-hour premiere on Monday, September 15, at 9pm ET. It will be available the next day on HBO Max.
Host John Henson (“Wipeout”) welcomes a batch of 10 bakers to a terrible haunted mansion filled with secret passageways and scares around every corner. The bakers are tested over seven episodes with a series of sinister challenges inspired by the haunted manor, and the most terrifying aspect of all – their own personal fears.
For the first time, the bottom three bakers in most episodes will be forced to bake for their lives as judges Stephanie Boswell, Carla Hall and Zac Young decide whose chilling displays will earn $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion.
“Halloween Wars” Season 15 is set to premiere on Sunday, September 21, at 9pm ET before hitting HBO Max the following day.
Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls) returns to host, challenging seven teams of the best cake, sugar and pumpkin artists in the world to create daringly delicious treats. From scenes depicting childhood monsters to an inspired take on the boogeyman’s evil lair, this season’s teams create some of the spookiest and most mouthwatering displays yet.
In the end, only one team will impress judges Shinmin Li and Aarti Sequeira, and walk away with the Halloween Wars championship and the grand prize of $25,000.
Before the action kicks off, the Road to Halloween Wars special will air on Sunday, September 15 at 11pm ET, where aspiring competitors from across the country show off their skills to prove why they deserve to compete for the grand prize.
“‘Halloween Baking Championship’ and ‘Halloween Wars’ kick off Food Network’s must-see, seasonal programming each year in spectacular fashion, consistently ranking among the network’s top audience drivers,” said Betsy Ayala, Head of Content, Food, Warner Bros Discovery.
“This season promises more scares and heart-pounding action as the competing artists do what they do best, conjure jaw-dropping and terrifying creations from flour, sugar and their imaginations.”
“Halloween Baking Championship” Host John Henson, Judges Carla Hall, Zac Young, & Stephanie Boswell
Best known to horror fans for playing Rupert Giles in 121 episodes of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” actor Anthony Head (aka Anthony Stewart Head) has passed away at 72 years old.
Daughters Emily and Daisy Head said in a statement to the BBC that their father “passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family.”
Their statement continues, “It has been, and forever will be, an honour and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many. We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in — he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.”
Anthony Head more recently played Rupert Mannion in 18 episodes of “Ted Lasso,” with the English actor’s film and television credits dating back to 1978. On the horror front, Anthony Head starred in Darren Bousman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera, as well as 2011’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Let the Wrong One In, “Warehouse 13,” and “The Canterville Ghost.”
Also of note here in the world of horror, Anthony Head once played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a London stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show back in the 1990s.
Outside the horror world, Anthony Head’s film and television credits well exceed 100 different productions and include “Highlander,” “NYPD Blue,” “Silent Witness,” “Doctor Who,” And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself, “Little Britain,” The Magic Door, “Sensitive Skin,” Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, “Free Agents,” The Iron Lady, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, “You, Me & Them,” “Dominion,” A Street Cat Named Bob, and Batman: Gotham by Gaslight.
“Buffy” actor James Marsters writes on Instagram, “There’s a hole in the World. Anthony Head has passed on from us. He was an unflaggingly kind and steady presence on the set of Buffy, and the best actor in the cast. He was the best of us. I was lucky to have known, and learned from him. He left the world a better place for his presence. Thank you Tony for all you gave.”
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