Randy Harward
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.
Smell My Feet! The 20 Best Halloween Movies (2025 Update)
by Randy Harward and Taylor Kujawa | Sep 25, 2025 | Entertainment
Our Halloween movie suggestions include spooky-season standbys like Halloween, The Lady in White, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Trick ‘r Treat plus newer and less familiar films like this year’s buzzy Late Night with the Devil, last year’s Dark Harvest, the Terrifier movies, and the 1986 classic Trick or Treat.
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Dollar Horror! CableTV.com Partners with Screambox for $0.99 Promo Code and $666.00 Halloween “Thrillternship”
by Randy Harward | Sep 22, 2025 | Entertainment
As part of our annual Bloodstream campaign, CableTV.com and premium horror streaming service Screambox are hiring a “thrilltern.” One lucky person will receive a one-time paycheck totalling a diabolical $666.00, a $50.00 Uber Eats code, and a free year of Screambox.
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What To Watch This Weekend: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (September 22–28)
by Randy Harward | Sep 22, 2025 | Entertainment
This week’s “What To Watch” picks include the docuseries Into the Void: Life, Death, and Heavy Metal on Hulu, the second season of English Teacher on FX and Hulu, the premiere of Mae Martin’s thriller Wayward on Netflix, another thriller called The Lowdown on FX—and more. Let’s hit the couch!
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What To Watch This Weekend: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (September 15–21)
by Randy Harward | Sep 15, 2025 | Entertainment
This week’s “What To Watch” picks include Haunted Hotel and Black Rabbit (both on Netflix), Gen V (Prime Video), Futurama (Hulu), The Morning Show (Apple TV+), and more. Let’s hit the couch!
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Basic Cable Packages and Channels Guide
by Randy Harward and Logan Jones | Sep 15, 2025 | TV FAQs
Our experts spent hundreds of hours looking into basic cable, how to get it, and whether or not it’s actually worth your money.
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ALL the Stephen King Shows and Movies in One Place
by Randy Harward | Sep 14, 2025 | Entertainment
As a Stephen King fan, I know what it’s like to wanna read and watch everything the man puts out, so I’ve compiled this guide to watching every Stephen King movie and show.I hope it helps my fellow “constant readers,” as King likes to call us.
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Incoming! Buzzy Horror Flick Weapons Is Finally Streaming—Here’s How to Watch It
by Randy Harward | Sep 12, 2025 | Entertainment
OMG! Have you seen Weapons yet? I’ve seen it twice now. If you haven’t been able to catch Zach Cregger’s chilling, gripping Barbarian follow-up in theaters, you’re in luck. Weapons—the third-highest-rated horror movie of 2025 according to Rotten Tomatoes—is finally on VOD, and we’ll tell you where to rent or buy it.
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Xfinity vs. DISH
by Randy Harward | Sep 12, 2025 | Versus Reviews
Cable TV provider Xfinity has excellent prices, shorter term agreements (or no term agreements at all), 185+ channels, the X1 TV box, and the Xfinity Stream app—but its cloud DVR is expensive and you’ll pay about 30% more per month for the no-term agreement plans.
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Spectrum vs. DISH
by Randy Harward | Sep 11, 2025 | Versus Reviews
See a side by side comparison of Spectrum vs Dish TV. See pros and cons of each, and make comparisons based on customer satisfaction, features, internet options and more.
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Sling TV vs. YouTube TV
by Randy Harward | Sep 8, 2025 | Reviews, Versus Reviews
Sling TV offers a good deal for an affordable price—its packages have some flexibility, and its largest package is still cheaper than YouTube TV. But YouTube TV offers more channels and unlimited cloud DVR storage space, so in many ways, you really do get what you pay for.
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