{"id":53397,"date":"2011-06-03T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T03:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=53397"},"modified":"2011-06-03T20:34:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T03:34:42","slug":"fear-factor-to-return-to-nbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/06\/03\/fear-factor-to-return-to-nbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear Factor To Return To NBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fear Factor&#8221; was one of my favorite shows back in the late &#8217;90s-early &#8217;00s, and it was one of the precursors to the huge reality show craze that&#8217;s still (in some cases, sadly) going on today. <\/p>\n<p>But it would seem that reality television has come back full circle to when it was awesome; &#8220;Fear Factor&#8221; has finally returned to NBC!<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/fear-factor-lives-again-at-194366\" target=\"blank\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, NBC and Endemol are bringing the show back to television. The show will be updated; the host of the reboot has not yet been named, but Endemol North America Chairman David Goldberg has said that former host Joe Rogan is &#8220;high on the list&#8221;, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/insidetv.ew.com\/2011\/06\/02\/joe-rogan-fear-factor-host\/\" target=\"blank\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>While the original show, which was based on Dutch show &#8220;Now or Neverland&#8221;, was intense already, what with the scary action stunts and the infamous gross-out section where people had to eat creepy bugs or centuries-old eggs, will be rebooted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/fear-factor-5-things-know-194451\">to have bigger, better, and scarier stunts<\/a>. Of course, the gross-out section will be a part of the reboot. &#8220;That stuff still gets people talking and we would be crazy not to include that,&#8221; executive producer Matt Kunitz said. <\/p>\n<p>You can read more about what to expect from the reboot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/fear-factor-5-things-know-194451\" target=\"blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53427\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fear_factor_snakes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fear_factor_snakes.jpg\" alt=\"Fear Factor\" title=\"Fear Factor\" width=\"322\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fear_factor_snakes.jpg 322w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fear_factor_snakes-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fear Factor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fear Factor&#8221; was one of my favorite shows back in the late &#8217;90s-early &#8217;00s, and it was one of the precursors to the huge reality show craze that&#8217;s still (in some cases, sadly) going on today. 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