Fear Factor Returns with New, Crazier Stunts (VIDEO)
“Fear Factor” will return to television Monday night with the same host, Joe Rogan, contestants from all over the United States, and new, more horrifying over-the-top stunts.
Although the show will feature brand new stunts and crisp high definition broadcast, many of the old cast will help restore the dead series to its former glory. In addition to original host Joe Rogan, executive producers Matt Kunitz and David Hurwitz, and director J. Rupert Thompson all return to Fear Factor’s debut Monday night.
Included in the show’s much-anticipated arrival is the effort to push the limits even further than the first installation of the TV show.
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“Fear Factor” will stick to the format of one physical stunt, followed by a gross stunt (usually eating something disgusting or that tastes terrible), and finally, an extreme, action-based stunt that could be timed. However, producers are trying to best their own past ideas with more complicated challenges and more astonishing obstacles.
Stunt coordinator Pat Romano commented on the plans for the show.
“Our limit to pull someone through the air used to be 100 feet… but yesterday we pulled someone 600 feet…There was no way that we could've done that six years ago. It basically means we're just always trying to top ourselves now," Romano told AP.
The popular show was canceled after six seasons in lieu of strong broadcast competition from American Idol and other programming. After TV network Chiller syndicated the show to positive ratings, however, NBC executives decided to bring back the reality game show.
The potential to make great television, and lots of money, was motivation enough for UFC fighter and comic Joe Rogan to return. Plus, says Rogan, he wouldn’t want another host to ruin the show that made him so well-known.
“I think I'd probably be sick if I was watching it at home and someone else was doing it- especially if they were (expletive) it up," said Rogan.
After five years of being off the air but not forgotten, “Fear Factor” will shock television audiences nationwide again Monday at 8 p.m.
Watch the TV show's trailer below.
