Halloween Hijinks on ‘South Park,’ TCM’s Vincent Price Tribute, ‘Tell Me a Story’ on CBS All Access, ‘A Million’ More Secrets

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A critical checklist of notable Wednesday TV:

South Park (10/9c, Comedy Central): Halloween will never be the same in this cracked Colorado burg thanks to a “revolution in mobility.” (The episode is titled “The Scoots,” so let’s assume the kids are now abusing scooters.) As the wayward youth set out to get more candy than ever, the panicked adults hoard supplies in hopes of surviving a night of more tricks than treats. Chaos inevitably ensues.

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House of Wax (8/7c, TCM): In a 24-hour Halloween lineup devoted to time-tested scary movies — 1942’s Cat People at 9 am/8c and 1963’s Black Sabbath anthology at 4 pm/3c are daytime highlights — Turner Classic Movies turns over prime time to October’s final “Horror Star of the Week”: the great Vincent Price. His villainous breakthrough in 1953’s House of Wax (originally filmed in 3D) leads the tribute, followed by two Roger Corman-directed homages to Edgar Allan Poe: 1961’s Pit and the Pendulum (9:45/8:45c) and 1964’s The Masque of the Red Death (11:15/10:15c).

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Tell Me a Story (streaming on CBS All Access): Very loosely inspired by classic fairy tales, but seemingly more influenced by the gruesome incoherence of FX’s American Horror Story anthology, this urban fable by Kevin Williamson (Scream, The Vampire Diaries) interlocks the fates of mostly unpleasant and deeply uninteresting New Yorkers in a blur of sex, drugs and crime. See if you can spot parallels to “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Three Little Pigs” — the most obvious, with masked burglars causing mayhem — and “Hansel and Gretel.” More grim than Grimm, this hot mess may make you wish they were all just telling a different, and better, story.

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A Million Little Things (10/9c, ABC): The secrets just keep spilling out in this angst-ridden drama. It doesn’t take long for news of Delilah’s (Stephanie Szostak) pregnancy to make the rounds of her friends — but who’s the daddy? They’re almost afraid to ask. This news is further distraction as Eddie (David Giuntoli) prepares to take the musical stage again, for the first time sober. And Regina (Christina Moses), ambushed by an unwelcome visit from her pushy mom (Romy Rosemont), comes to a wrenching reckoning with husband Rome (Romany Malco).

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Inside Wednesday TV: Another way to get your Halloween on: Wallowing in a 12-hour marathon of fan-favorite episodes of Supernatural on TNT (starts at 8 am/7c)… PBS begins a four-week survey of Sinking Cities (10/9c, check local listings at pbs.org), profiling urban centers facing rising sea levels and extreme weather, with a look at New York City, still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Sandy in 2012… JJ (A.J. Cook) returns to her East Allegheny hometown, rekindling unhappy childhood memories of her older sister’s tragic death, on CBS’s Criminal Minds (10/9c), when the BAU looks into a local ghost story that could shed light on two people’s disappearance… IFC’s campy horror comedy Stan Against Evil (10/9c) is back for a third season, with retired Sheriff Stan (John C. McGinley) and current Sheriff Evie (Janet Varney) taking on even more evil demons after Stan traveled through time, accidentally opening a portal between the Land of the Living and the Land of the Dead. Don’t you hate when that happens?

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    RedCupcake

    I guess it\'s just SEAL Team for me tonight.

    BTW for those of us who enjoyed the show, I read that Instinct (Alan Cumming as police consultant) was renewed for another season. I believe it will once again be a midseason replacement.

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      GoldSubmarine

      Wow,so many low rated shows being renewed these days. Now if I can just get word about Salvation! That show was just too addicting for me to dismiss. Salvation was actually more entertaining for me than most regular season shows. New shows this season have been mostly disappointing.

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      GreenElephant

      I really liked Instinct. Alan Cumming is great in it. Thanks for the happy news.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I\'d forgotten that there hasn\'t been any definite word about the renewal or cancellation of Salvation. I wonder what they\'re waiting for.

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      GoldSubmarine

      Also still no word about ABC\'s Take Two and NBC\'s Reverie.

      CW already renewed The Outpost and Burden of Truth.

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      RedCupcake

      As a mid-season show, I think the bar is a little lower than it is for \"marquee\" shows. But still higher than the bar for summer fluff shows.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I don\'t really care about any of those. I think I stopped watching Take Two before it ended, and I\'d be ok with Reverie ending with its last episode. I didn\'t watch the other two.

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    CyanCoathanger

    ABC night again! 2 hours of comedies and A Million Little Things! Then American Horror Story and Big Cat Tales after 11:00!

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      RedQuill

      Interestingly...with The Walking Dead, Channel Zero and The Purge on my DVR...(and Doctor Who and The Gifted)...I\'m finding American Horror Story to be backing-up...and getting close to my \"4 & GONE\" category...

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      GreenElephant

      We\'ll be watching the ABC comedies too. But then Criminal Minds at 10. And after the news Colbert\'s monologue. If he\'s a repeat I put on Kimmel.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I\'m finding this season of AHS to be the best ever partly because it\'s the first one to make complete sense to me.

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      OrangeMagnet

      That\'s a shame. This is the first season I\'ve actually been engrossed in since Coven. I watched Roanoke but I\'m surprised I got through the whole thing since I didn\'t really like it.

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      CyanCoathanger

      Roanoke is the only season I really hated. I couldn\'t figure out what was going on half the time, and once I did, I didn\'t really care.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I\'m finding this season of Channel Zero to be the only one that completely makes sense to me and the only one that hasn\'t bored me half way through.

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      RedQuill

      Well unicorn...I\'m NOT saying AHS is NOT engrossing...I\'m just saying that I, personally, find The Walking Dead/Channel Zero/The Purge/Doctor Who/The Gifted somewhat MORE engrossing...so there always seems to be a NEW episode of one of them I choose to watch before watching a previous episode of AHS...

      (Having EVERYTHING on a DVR, of course, makes it EASY to \"pick and choose\".)

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      CyanCoathanger

      Question: With so many shows starting a minute early or ending a minute or two later than their listed times, does your DVR record the whole episode or cut off those extra minutes? Other people have complained that theirs cuts them off.

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      OrangeMagnet

      That\'s kinda funny because The Gifted is the show I\'m 5 episodes behind on and I\'ve been watching other stuff instead of.

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      GoldSubmarine

      So far no timing issues with my Comcast DVR. But sometimes when the networks enforce last minute preemptions, my DVR records as if the show is actually on. Last season almost an entire Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode was missing from my DVR because ABC aired a long news cast So I had to catch up with that episode via On Demand later that weekend.

      DVR s aren\'t perfected yet, but they are getting there. I hope one day they come up with a device that detects exactly the show wanted and the exact times instead of just recording time slots.

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      CyanCoathanger

      That\'s good to know. I have to set my DVR manually, and I always add a few minutes just in case. I gave up trying to record things that follow a sporting event or a presidential speech because you never know how much they\'ll run over.

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    RedQuill

    Happy to see that Stan Against Evil is returning...I see it as a \"poor man\'s\" Ash vs Evil Dead...