Critic's Self-help guide to Monday TV: Rock Center, Halloween Marathons, plus much more!

Rock Center with John Williams The finest TV news in the evening evolves from the network's news division, as NBC News launches Rock Center With John Williams (10/9c), the initial high-profile network newsmagazine with serious intent to premiere in the extended while, closer in tone for an hour than Dateline's lurid true-crime fixation. How serious is? Surprisingly a legend than Ted Koppel has signed on just like a contributor, though he wasn't round the initial first-evening playlist. Top-rated Nightly News anchor John Williams hosts live from Studio 3B in Rockefeller Center, as well as the opening selection features some Syrian rebellion from star foreign correspondent Richard Engel, a Kate Snow analysis about Chinese women who showed up at America to supply birth and return with U.S. citizenship, and former CBS anchor Harry Cruz getting an item about "the primary one devote America by having an adverse unemployment rate."No an individual's expecting blockbuster ratings, especially on Halloween evening, but this project is a lot more about prestige and credibility, and NBC will give you time. Besides, it's not as once they could cause worse within the time-frame.Want more TV news? Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!Boo! Halloween is a superb excuse to acquire your freak on, and TV is content to comply. Among the selected highlights: Foreign exchange repeats the initial four cases of its stylishly berserk American Horror Story beginning at 10/9c. ... MTV replays the entire 12-episode first season of the summer season hit Teen Wolf (which switched to become much better than expected) beginning at 9 am/8c. ... Syfy goes wall-to-wall with Ghost Potential predators, capping a daylong marathon (beginning at 8 am/7c) getting a six-hour live extravaganza (beginning at 7/6c). ... AMC fills your entire day and evening with some other obligations in the Halloween movie franchise, nevertheless the best continues to be first, the 1978 classic (8/7c). ... TCM saves its creepiest classics for your witching hour of evening time, while using brilliant The Innocents, a 1961 adaptation of "The Turn in the Screw" starring Deborah Kerr, at 12:15 am/11:15c, then your equally chilling The Haunting (2 am/1c) from 1963, based on Shirley Jackson's masterpiece "The Haunting of Hill House."Episodic TV may also be being mindful to Halloween, most particularly on CBS, in which the Way I Met Your Mother (8/7c) finally unveils the identity in the "Slutty Pumpkin" mystery girl, carried out by Katie Holmes. ... Mike & Molly (9:31/8:31c) go to a Halloween at her boss's house, despite Mike's aversion for the holiday. ... Freddy's back! Robert Englund, anyway, within the Nightmare on Elm Street movies, guesting just like a drifter who puts a curse on Danny on Hawaii Five- (10/9c).We don't usually recommend adopting PBS for laughs, and frequently will Ferrell: The Aim Twain Prize (check local agendas) finds the Saturday Evening Live funnyman-switched-celebrity following in Tina Fey's actions, locating the coveted prize for American humor. Among people needing to pay wry tribute: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Conan O'Brien and Ben Stiller.Speaking about Conan, his The very best spinner's talk show (11/10c) starts each week of NY broadcasts by welcoming his NBC alternative, Jimmy Fallon. Who states there's no calmness in the finish of evening?Subscribe to TV Guide Magazine now!