| The Haunting Hour: The Series | |
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| Genre | Horror Science fiction Supernatural Dark fantasy Drama |
| Theme music composer | John Sereda Paul Michael Thomas |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 76 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Dan Angel Kim Arnott Billy Brown Harvey Kahn |
| Production locations | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Cinematography | Micheael Balfry |
| Production companies | The Hatchery Incendo Films Front Street Pictures |
| Original release | |
| Network | Hub Network (2010–2014) Discovery Family (2014) |
| Release | October 29, 2010 – November 29, 2014 |
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R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series is a children's horror anthology television series based on the 2007 movie R.L Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It and the anthologies The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night and Nightmare Hour by R.L. Stine,[1] which originally aired on The Hub Network (now Discovery Family) from October 29, 2010, to October 11, 2014. The only story taken from The Haunting Hour anthology was My Imaginary Friend, and the only story unused from The Nightmare Hour was Make Me a Witch. The fourth season's seven remaining episodes ran on Discovery Family from October 18, 2014, to November 29, 2014. The series was produced by Front Street Pictures, The Hatchery, Incendo Films, and Endemol.
On July 9, 2012, it was announced that R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour was one of four original series from The Hub that won the CINE Golden Eagle Award for high quality production and storytelling.[2]
The series received critical acclaim throughout its run and is considered to be the best children's horror anthology show as well as one of the best horror anthologies in general with praise given to the acting (from both the child and adult actors), production value, dark tone, direction, storytelling, gothic atmosphere and style, scares and effects.
On December 8, 2014, it was confirmed by Stine via Twitter that Discovery Family cancelled the show after its run of four seasons.[3]
- ^ Clark, Noelene (December 19, 2010). "‘The Haunting Hour’: R. L. Stine promises ‘shivers but not nightmares’ with new show". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on December 19, 2010.
- ^ "HubWorld.com press release". Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
- ^ Stine, R.L. [@RL_Stine] (2014-12-06). "Apologies for those of you looking for The Haunting Hour today. The show has been dropped by the Discovery Family Channel..." (Tweet). Retrieved 2014-12-07 – via Twitter.