Creep Week: Canada’s T+E Equivalent of Travel Channel’s Ghostober

In Canada, T+E, a specialty channel of Blue Ant Media, is the equivalent (basically) of Travel Channel in the United States. They show a lot of paranormal programming, in addition to other things. And just like how Travel Channel gets into the Spooky Season Spirit every year with a Ghostober event, so does T+E —with Creep Week offerings.

In fact, Creep Week started before Ghostober. (This year will mark Creep Week’s fifth year, whereas 2021 is Ghostober’s fourth. But Ghostober 4 won’t be exclusive to Travel Channel. It’s expanding to include other Discovery Inc. brands like HGTV, Food Network, and discovery+.)

If you live in the U.S. and are reading this thinking, “Why do I care about Canada’s Creep Week shows? I can’t watch them.” Well…you raise a valid point.

However, Creep Week 2021 may hold a preview of a show that we will eventually get to watch in the States via one of Discovery Inc.’s brands, whether that’s Travel Channel, A&E, discovery+, etc.

Take Hotel Paranormal, for instance. The docuseries hosted by Dan Aykroyd first premiered on T+E on May 15, 2020. It then premiered on Travel Channel for American audiences a couple of months later, on July 10, 2020.

Actually, T+E airs a lot of paranormal shows Americans know and love, including Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, and Paranormal Caught on Camera to name a few. In some cases, like Hotel Paranormal, they premiere in Canada before the U.S. —and then sometimes it’s vice versa. (Premieres in the U.S. and then Canada.) Sometimes shows air at the same time.

Let’s take a look at a little of what we know is coming to Creep Week so far this year and do a comparison/contrast of what we’ll see during Ghostober 2021. (Since Ghostober IV’s lineup has already been announced.)

T+E’s Creep Week

In its five-year history, 2021’s Creep Week will offer more hours of paranormal programming than ever before. T+E hasn’t revealed the entire Creep Week programming lineup yet, but we do know when it will happen: October 9–17.

One of the shows that will premiere during both Creep Week and Ghostober is Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life. It premieres for T+E audiences on Friday, October 15. But for Americans, the series starts streaming exclusively on discovery+ a week earlier, on October 8.

One other Creep Week show that’s so far been revealed is Bathsheba, which is not one of the Ghostober shows.

Craig Junner, VP of Programming for Blue Ant Media, explained how T+E has “…got the world broadcast premiere of the new original special, Bathsheba, a true story that inspired the blockbuster horror movie The Conjuring. The two-part documentary includes interviews with the Perron family who lived in this haunted house.”

Bathsheba aims to set the record straight on the Perron family’s true story versus the Hollywood happy ending.

I’m not sure why Bathsheba didn’t make the Ghostober lineup, but I have a feeling sooner or later it will head to a channel or streaming service where us Americans can watch too.

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You can also follow T+E on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram using the hashtags #CreepWeek, #ChannelYourFear, and #Bathsheba.

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