Randy Harward

Senior Staff Writer

Randy Harward is a Senior Staff Writer at CableTV.com and the site’s resident horror expert. With over 25 years of experience covering music, film, and television, Randy’s work has been featured in a broad range of publications. He has held key editorial roles, including Music Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly, Senior Editor at Blurt, and Associate Editor at HARP magazine. His writing has also appeared in over 20 outlets, such as Guitar World, Salt Lake Magazine, CMJ New Music Monthly, Rockpile, and Mean Street. At CableTV.com, Randy focuses on TV services—both streaming and traditional—and scary movies.

A collage of still images from Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Fortune Feimster Crushing It!, Pop Culture Jeopardy, and Creature Commandos—all shows covered in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week column.

What to Watch This Weekend: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (December 2–8)

by Randy Harward | Dec 6, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch picks include series premieres (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Creature Commandos), documentaries (The Sticky, Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story), a new game show based on a classic (Pop Culture Jeopardy), Danny Trejo unearthing mysteries, Fortune Feimster’s third comedy special, and the MLS Cup Finals. Let’s hit the couch.

A collage of images from Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, The Agency, Family Guy: Gift of the White Guy, and Dear Santa, shows and movies covered in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week column.

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 10 TV and Movie Picks (November 25–December 1)

by Randy Harward | Nov 25, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch picks include series premieres (The Agency, The Madness), holiday specials (Family Guy, Saturday Night Live), holiday movies (Dear Santa, Nutcrackers), a doc(k) about yacht rock, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the VOD streaming premiere of the ultra-gory holiday slasher flick, Terrifier 3. Let’s hit the couch!

A collage of images from The Sex Lives of College Girls, Street Trash, Interior Chinatown, and A Man on the Inside—shows and movies featured in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week column for November 18.

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (November 18–24)

by Randy Harward | Nov 18, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch picks include series premieres (Interior Chinatown, A Man on the Inside), returning series (Based on a True Story, The Sex Lives of College Girls), Ken Burns’ da Vinci doc, Obama on Our Oceans, a now-slim fat-joke king (Jim Gaffigan: Skinny), an avenging angel (Rita), and a remade body-horror cult classic (Street Trash). Get to the couch!

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (November 11–17)

by Randy Harward | Nov 11, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch picks include a medical mockumentary (St. Denis Medical), found-footage series (The Creep Tapes), two thriller series (Cross, The Day of the Jackal), sci-fi drama Silo’s second season, a Dune prequel series, a Yellowstone spinoff, Cobra Kai’s final season, and the tech-horror movie Do Not Open. Let’s hit the couch!

A collage of images from Outer Banks, Black Cab, Yellowstone, and Citadel: Honey Bunny, shows and movies recommended in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week, November 4–10.

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (November 4–10)

by Randy Harward | Nov 6, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch recs include the final season of What We Do in the Shadows, new comedy Poppa’s House, Kate Beckinsale spy thriller Canary Black, the return of Somebody Somewhere, and the tip-off of the 2024–2025 NBA season. Where’s the remote?

A collage of images from Buy It Now, Doc of Chucky, Like Water for Chocolate, and Invincible Fight Girl, recommendations in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week column for October 28 - November 3.

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (October 28–November 3)

by Randy Harward | Oct 28, 2024 | Entertainment

Meta Brings Live NBA Games to VR

by Randy Harward | Oct 28, 2024 | Entertainment, Industry News

Is the future of live, televised basketball in virtual reality? Meta’s bettin’ on it. In October, Facebook’s parent company announced it would launch 52 free live NBA games in virtual reality via Meta Quest’s Xtadium and Meta Horizon Worlds.

6 Japanese Horror Movies to Stream Now

by Randy Harward | Oct 25, 2024 | Entertainment

So you’re lookin’ for Japanese horror movies—we have some recommendations for you, including a Takashi Miike horror drama, an Evil Dead tribute/ripoff, a cartoonishly frightening haunted-house flick, cyberpunk body horror, and an adult animated psychological thriller. In other words, we’re not gonna shove Ringu and Ju-On down your throats again.

Philo TV vs. YouTube TV

by Randy Harward | Oct 21, 2024 | Entertainment, Versus Reviews

Philo TV is inexpensive because it’s limited; YouTube TV costs 3x more because it has the full spectrum of channels.

A claw-like hand thrusts a baby bottle through a grate in this scene from Barbarian—one of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime Video.

Prime Horror: The Best Horror Movies on Amazon Prime Video

by Randy Harward and Bill Frost | Oct 10, 2024 | Entertainment

The Amazon Prime Video library is massive, with 20,000+ movies—and 3,000+ are in the horror category, which sickos like us find delightful. We’ve combed through Prime Video’s horror section to bring you 11 recommendations—but these are only some of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime Video.

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