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EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Knoxville is hosting different hit.
Fox has renewed Fear Factor: House of Fear, its caller return connected nan classical title series, for a 2nd season.
It comes little than a period aft [SPOILER ALERT] Ethan Macmillan, a 20-year-old emergency dispatcher from Toronto won a $200,000 prize aft successfully jumping betwixt speeding semi-trucks having navigated a h2o vessel pinch alligator gar.
The web said that nan show’s debut section delivered 16.5M multiplatform viewers, calling it nan number 1 broadcast debut and apical caller unscripted bid of nan play successful nan 18-49 demo.
It is simply a twist connected nan John De Mol-created Dutch format Now aliases Neverland and features a group of strangers who unrecorded together nether 1 tile while facing stunts, challenges, and a twisted crippled of societal strategy wherever spot is fleeting—and fearfulness is simply a weapon.
Shot successful Vancouver, Canada, nan bid premiered connected January 11 and featured 10 episodes. It will now return for a sophomore run, apt adjacent year.
The bid is produced by Endemol Shine North America and exec produced by Kevin Lee, Anthony Carbone, and Lindsay Tuggle and Endemol Shine North America’s Sharon Levy, Michael Heyerman and Sean Loughlin.
Jackass prima Knoxville joked astatine nan London TV Screenings successful February, wherever Banijay was hunting world format deals, that he loved hosting nan show “because I’m a monster and enjoyed seeing group successful nan throes of terror”.
Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch moreover touted its occurrence alongside scripted bid specified arsenic Memory of a Killer and Best Medicine.
“Fear Factor: House of Fear instantly established itself arsenic a signature unscripted bid for Fox, and our assemblage can’t get capable of really it takes them – and our contestants — to nan absolute separator pinch each episode,” said Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network. “Johnny Knoxville’s fearless, unpredictable power makes him nan cleanable ringmaster, arsenic he and our friends astatine Endemol person redefined this iconic format and elevated it into thing fresh, addictive, highly competitive, and cringe-inducing successful each nan champion ways. And judge it aliases not, they’re already plotting caller ways to raise nan shock-and-awe quotient for play two.”
“Bringing an icon for illustration Fear Factor back to life required a big who could lucifer its legacy, and Johnny Knoxville has been nan eventual catalyst for this evolution. He didn’t conscionable big Fear Factor: House of Fear; he became nan bosom of it,” added Sharon Levy, Chief Executive Officer of Endemol Shine North America. “Earning nan title of nan most-streamed unscripted bid this play is simply a monolithic triumph for ESNA and our unthinkable partners astatine Fox and shows nan Fear format is arsenic beardown arsenic ever. For play two, we’re already plotting really to push nan societal strategy and beingness stunts to moreover much visceral, stomach-turning heights. We are conscionable getting started.”
