Tubi hosted the “R.L. Stine on Tubi” panel today at New York Comic Con 2026 at The Javits Center. The panel was moderated by entertainment journalist and podcast host Josh Horowitz (‘Happy Sad Confused’). It featured Stine, Jem Garrard (writer-director of ‘R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2’ and ‘R.L. Stine’s Afraid of Clowns’), Jimbo (cast of ‘R.L. Stine’s Afraid of Clowns’) and Adam Lewinson (Tubi’s Chief Content Officer).

The panel began with a video from Cassandra Peterson, famously known as Elvira. Followed by Horowitz introducing the panelists, setting the stage for a frightfully fun discussion. The panelists were then asked a series of questions where they highlighted Tubi’s Terror on Tubi hub, their relationships to horror content and their experiences working on adapting Stine’s novels.

The room was shown a clip from ‘R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead 2’ followed by further discussion.

Later, Kaptain Krazee interrupted the Q&A with an exclusive first clip of ‘R.L. Stine’s Afraid of Clowns.’ In it, Ringmaster Rollo, played by Jimbo, is seen scaring a lost child with a troupe of scary clowns.  ‘Afraid of Clowns’ is set to premiere on Tubi next year.

After the group discussed ‘Afraid of Clowns,’ Lewinson made a surprise announcement that a film adaptation of the iconic novel, ‘R.L. Stine’s The Babysitter,’ is in development at Tubi. The movie will be directed by Trevor Calverley.

‘The Babysitter’ follows 16-year-old Jenny she takes a babysitting job despite a prowler terrorizing girls across town. When threatening phone calls begin and a dangerous fugitive surfaces in town, Jenny grows suspicious of everyone around her as the danger begins closing in.