The Food Network has three great Halloween-themed shows in store for viewers this month including a four-part series about pumpkin carving called “Outrageous Pumpkins” to join their regular seasonal programs, Halloween Wars and Halloween Baking Championship.

New to the line is Outrageous Pumpkins.  In this four-part series hosted by Alyson Hannigan, a traditional Halloween pastime is taken to the next level as seven expert pumpkin carvers compete at an outdoor pumpkin playground for the title of Outrageous Pumpkin Champion and a sweet $25,000 Halloween treat. Each week the carvers compete in two outrageous challenges that test their creativity and pumpkin prowess as they sculpt gravity-defying scenes that celebrate Halloween, with puppeteer and artist Terri Hardin and master pumpkin carver Ray Villafane judging their every move.

Hosted by Carla Hall, in Halloween Baking Championship, the competitor’s nerves and skills are tested like never before as they bake their way through a haunted house brimming with challenges through seven episodes. Judges Stephanie Boswell and Zac Young join Carla to determine whose devilishly delicious desserts earn $25,000 and the title of Halloween Baking Champion.

In Halloween Wars, host Jonathan Bennett returns to challenge six teams made up of an expert pumpkin carver, a cake artist, and a master sugar artist, as they create frighteningly fun and intricate edible displays over five episodes that are spooky as they are tasty. Their creations are judged by award-winning cake decorator Shinmin Li, horror film special effects master Todd Tucker, and a rotating panel of celebrity guest judges, including Guillermo Díaz (Scandal), Jocelin Donahue (Insidious: Chapter 2), Marisol Nichols (Riverdale), Katie Sarife (Annabelle Comes Home) and Jeremy Ray Taylor (IT). The last team standing takes home $50,000.

ANCHORAGE, AK – The stakes have never been higher for the stars of Discovery Channel’s hit television show Gold Rush as Parker Schnable, Rick Ness, Tony Beets and Fred Lewis risk it all during a global pandemic to strike it rich.

Discovery reports:

When a global pandemic shut down the world in March 2020, markets crashed and rocked the U.S. economy. However, with economic uncertainty comes great opportunity for those who can seize upon the moment. And in the goldfields across North America, the opportunity of a lifetime awaited as gold prices spiked to record highs and the price of fuel, a miner’s biggest expense, bottomed out. In this all-new season of Gold Rush, seasoned gold miners are joined by greenhorn miners eager to forge their own destinies and gamble like never before in pursuit of the greatest pay day of their lives. The all-new season of Gold Rush premieres with a two-hour special Friday Oct. 23 at 8PM ET/PT and will continue to air Fridays at 8PM ET/PT for the remainder of the season.

Gold miners Parker Schnabel, Tony Beets and Rick Ness take massive gambles this season as they face the worst time crunch ever as the gold fields opened two months late because of COVID-19. And joining Gold Rushthis season is ex-special forces medic and greenhorn miner Fred Lewis who takes his destiny into his own hands as he strikes out with a band of out of work veterans in the hopes to hitting it big in the gold fields of Oregon.  

Parker Schnabel arrives in the Yukon one month late with massive ambitions to expand his mining business beyond the Klondike.  His goal is to bank enough gold to buy new ground and he’s determined not to let the COVID-19 pandemic slow him down. As soon as he can, Parker assembles his crew and doubles down – opening two enormous operations. This season, Parker will rely more than ever on his crew to keep his operation running while he heads out to prospect new ground in Alaska and beyond.  But with gold prices spiking, the cost of rich ground also goes up, so the pressure is on co-foremen Mitch and Brennan, and rookie plant boss Tyson to battle breakdowns and disasters to make the team enough gold to afford new ground.

After two seasons of missed goals, Tony Beets is ready to take advantage of the perfect mining conditions. If he can identify the last of the virgin ground on Paradise Hill, this could be a record season for him, ensuring the success of the future Beets generation. Tony is determined to hit his goal of mining out the massive Mega Cut in just one year. It’s an ambitious engineering feat that require the Beets family to move massive tons of earth.  To be successful, Tony will have to dig deep into his arsenal of mining equipment.

Rick Ness can’t afford another season of failures. For years he has worked with mining prodigy Parker Schnabel, rising to rank of foreman. Two years ago, Rick struck off on his own. After a strong debut, he suffered a major setback last year and lost all his profits, leaving him in the position to barely break even. To make matters worse, half his crew deserted him.  Rick treads a troubled track; if he doesn’t turn a profit this year, his mining career is over. And he starts the season behind schedule with just two of his buddies to help him get started. But this time Rick will not let the challenges stop him from achieving success. With Karla and Kruse, he heads to new ground in the mountains above Keno – the land of massive nuggets – for his last shot at striking it rich in gold.

As millions of Americans face unemployment during COVID-19, special forces veteran and rookie miner Fred Lewis risks everything and heads to the mountains of Oregon looking for a gold mine of his own. With fellow veteran and experienced miner Kendell Madden, Fred leases a piece of ground with huge prospects. When his test run shows good gold, they assemble a band of down on their luck ex-servicemen and women eager to turn around their fortunes. Following in the footsteps of countless Americans who’ve sought their fortune in the wilderness, this band of brothers will be tested like never before on their quest to control their own destinies and hit the motherlode.

This season ofGold Rush is unmatched. Gold miners are essential workers, and as the four gold miners and their crews battle the time crunch and elements in the hope of finding millions of dollars in gold during a global pandemic, one thing is certain. Once gold fever strikes, these crews will never give up.

In addition to watching the series on Discovery, viewers can check out new episodes each week on DiscoveryGO.  Viewers can join the conversation on social media by using the hashtag #GoldRush and follow Gold Rush on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for the latest updates.

Gold Rush is produced for Discovery Channel by Raw Television, where Dimitri Doganis, James Bates, Mike Gamson, and Tom Sheahan are executive producers.  For Discovery Channel, Carter Figueroa is executive producer and Greg Wolf is coordinating producer

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – A new and potentially awkward season of HGTV’s hit show “Flip or Flop” is scheduled to start airing Thursday night. That’s because divorced couple Tarek El Moussa and Christina Anstead are coming in with even more marital baggage.   The couple divorced in 2018 and Christine remarried to Ant Anstead later that year.  Tarek is now newly engaged to Heather Rae Young on July 4th.  Although the couple has been filming together with some underhanded comments and barbs against each other over the years, this year’s romance drama could heat up.  The couple share two children, Taylor and Brayden.   Now, Christine, with a 1-year-old with Ant Anstead has announced the couple’s impending divorce.  Things can get dicey and who knows, maybe the couple can mend fences and get back together this year?

According to HGTV, they are still always ready to renovate and flip any run-down house with potential.  This season the couple will buy, rehab and sell more of SoCal’s dilapidated properties in a new season of HGTV’s hugely popular series Flip or Flop, premiering Thursday, Oct. 15, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The business partners, whose lives on and off camera generate big buzz among millions of social media followers, attracted more than 23 million viewers to the series last season. In the new episodes, they continue to navigate both the expected and surprising challenges of co-parenting their kids—Taylor, 9, and Brayden, 5—while running a successful business.

“Taylor and Brayden are the reason behind everything we do,” said Tarek. “They are both happy and healthy and the flipping business is thriving.”

“Tarek and I have a common goal to create beautiful houses for families,” said Christina. “We work hard but our priority is spending quality time with our wonderful kids and raising them to appreciate the love of family.”

In the season premiere, Tarek and Christina buy a small two-bedroom house in hopes of selling for a big price tag. To increase the value, they add fresh curb appeal with new paint and landscaping, build a large, bright kitchen, and install a stunning tile wall in the bathroom. Throughout the season, the pair races to snatch up desirable properties in LA’s hot real estate market, takes on homes with challenging floorplans and overhauls what is possibly their grossest flip yet.

For fans who don’t want to wait until Oct. 15 to see more of Tarek and Christina, there’s more good news. The season two finale of Christina’s solo series, Christina on the Coast, will air Thursday, Sept. 10, at 9 p.m. ET/PT. And, on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Tarek will return in four new episodes of Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa as he mentors real estate novices who want to learn the secrets of a successful flip. A special one-hour episode featuring Tarek’s fiancée, real estate agent Heather Rae Young, will air on Oct. 8 at 9 p.m.

Fans are invited to stay connected with Flip or Flop on HGTV’s digital platforms. The new episodes will be available on HGTV GO the same day as the TV premieres—Thursdays beginning Oct. 15. Fans can visit www.HGTV.com/FliporFlop for exclusive videos, photos and more information about upcoming episodes and can interact via social media using #FliporFlop. Fans also can connect with Tarek and Christina on Instagram at @therealtarekelmoussa and @christinaanstead.

Both Tarek and Christina are in production for new seasons of their series that are slated to air in 2021.