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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitch Dudek

Popular MeTV horror movie host Svengoolie brings on sidekicks (and possible successors)

Sarah Palmer (from left) as Gwengoolie, Bill Leff as Nostalgiaferatoo, Rich Koz as Svengoolie and Scott Gryder as IMP pause during a taping of “Svengoolie.” (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

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.

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