
Rich Koz, who’s been keeping the grandly eccentric tradition of the horror movie host alive on MeTV’s “Svengoolie” for four-plus decades, needed a hand — preferably an undead one.
Koz, who plays the wisecracking, endearingly cheesy horror host, was tasked with filling 30 extra minutes of airtime when executives at Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting’s flagship station MeTV expanded his show from two to two and a half hours.