06Dec2011
NBC Gives You More Reasons to Fear “Fear Factor”
NBC is debuting the revival of their popular game show Fear Factor this coming Monday, December 12th, at 8:00PM ET. Joe Rogan returns as four couples compete against each other in a series of extreme physical, mental, and emotional challenges testing their fears to win $50,000. If you know the old version, you know the new one. What you don’t know, though, is how big the new version is. Remember the old version when people were just pulled on the backs of horses or things like that? This doesn’t scratch the surface of what the new Fear Factor does. Care to see? NBC has released a trailer for the show, including interviews and game previews.
What do you think? Looking forward to the debut?
Yep. Still looking forward to it. (Still wish they’d go back to three men and three women competing, though.)
Now THIS is a step in the right direction when it comes to bringing back good game shows.
Although I must say, a $50,000 top prize could barely get you anything 10 years ago, especially once the famous tax kicked into play. These days, with everything that much more expensive, you’d think game shows would increase their top prizes to compensate. Then again, with Wipeout and 101 Ways also giving away $50,000 per episode, I guess that’s the primary reason NBC decided to keep the top prize the same on Fear Factor.
After all, Fear Factor is, in a sense, competing against Wipeout and 101 Ways, since these are all, for the most part, stunt-based game shows.
I see nothing wrong with a $50,000 top prize, even after the taxes that’s still a nice chunk of change. Plus considering what the budget must be for stunts and the insurance that goes with it, I can easily see why the prize isn’t more.
I will watch until the first gross-out eating contest, then the show will lose me again, just like 10 years ago.
Just out of curiousity, Is every show going to be couples?
The first contestant searches said they were only looking for couples, although that could change if the show does well and NBC orders additional episodes.
I got really bored with this show over time, but this looks AWESOME.
They are flinging cars through moving trains. Sold.
As appalling as it ever was. This is NOT a game show. I won’t be watching… But the rest of you, have fun and enjoy, if that’s your sort of thing. Just please do not call it a game show — the genre does not deserve to be associated with this program.
I was never a big fan of the original “Fear Factor”, and I finally figured out why. IN a typical hour-long slot (about forty-five minutes once you take out the commercials), there are only three games. And they are dragged out for the longest while.
By comparison, the recent “Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge” got in six games (including an iconic endgame) in a half-hour slot (less advertisements). “The Cube” gets anywhere from seven to ten games in, with several life-eating repeats thrown in. The UK version of “Fort Boyard” would usually get in from ten to twelve games of various types (and again, throw in an iconic endgame). The French version of “Fort Boyard” gets nearly two dozen games (plus its endgame) in a hundred-minute slot. And “The Crystal Maze” would get in from thirteen to sixteen games–plus, again, an iconic endgame–in fifty minutes time. (If you don’t believe me, look at these shows on YouTube–they’re all there, ready and waiting to entertain!)
Now that “Fear Factor” is back on NBC, will the network bring back “Deal or No Deal” in the future?