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MTV2 To Do Stunt Competition Game Show From ‘Fear Factor’ Executive Producer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 24, 2012 @ 8:18am PDTTags: Fear Factor, MTV2
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EXCLUSIVE: MTV2, MTV’s sibling network, is moving ahead with Numbnuts, a new reality program from Fear Factor executive producer David A. Hurwitz. Described as a “high-octane, hilarious, adrenaline-fueled stunt competition game-show series,” Numbnuts will premiere this Friday at 10 PM, immediately following the seventh-season seven premiere of the Bellator Fighting Championships. Hosted by Jeff Dye (Last Comic Standing), Numbnuts pits Internet contestants’ stunt mishaps against three web-celebrity Stunt Masters — Crazy Mike, The Horse and Victor Lopez — as the teams battle it out to see who can better perform steroid-injected versions of the stunts.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Bachelorette’ Hits Low, ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Up Big, ‘Fear Factor’ & ‘MasterChef’ Rise

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 17, 2012 @ 9:06am PDTTags: Fear Factor, Hell's Kitchen, The Bachelorette, The Glass House

Bachelorette RatingsThe Bachelorette (2.2/6) had its tell-all episode last night with the guys who didn’t make Emily Maynard’s cut. The show was down 12% from last week and tied a season low (with the exception of specials). Still, last night’s episode – the last before July 22’s finale — was Monday’s most-watched show with more than 7 million viewers. Meanwhile, the fifth week of The Glass House (1.0/3) was flat with last week and tied a season low. ABC won the night in viewers and Fox won in adults 18-49. Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Glass House’ Up, ‘Bachelorette’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Flat, ‘Fear Factor’ ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Hit Low

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday July 10, 2012 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Fear Factor, Ratings, The Bachelorette, The Glass House

ABC’s The Bachelorette (2.5/7) pared down to the final two hopeful guys as it heads towards its July 22 season finale. However that didn’t help the shw pick up traction, as it was flat with last week. The fourth week of The Glass House (1.1/3), on the other hand, was up 10% from last week’s show — though that was helped by a four-minute overrun into the 10 PM slot from Bachelorette. On Fox, Hell’s Kitchen (2.4/8) was flat with last week, and MasterChef (2.4/7), down to the final nine contestants, was up 4% from last week. ABC won the night in total viewers with 6.45 million, while Fox was tops in adults 18-49.

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FremantleMedia Signs Deal With ‘Wipeout’ Creator Matt Kunitz

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 20, 2012 @ 8:34am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Fear Factor, FremantleMedia North America, Wipeout
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Matt Kunitz Wipeout FremantleMediaEXCLUSIVE: After six years at NBC Universal and six at Endemol, reality producer Matt Kunitz is teaming with FremantleMedia North America. Kunitz, creator/executive producer of Wipeout and executive producer of Fear Factor, has signed a multi-year overall … Read More »

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Future Of NBC’s ‘Fear Factor’ Reboot In Limbo After Donkey Semen Stunt Debacle

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 12:57pm PSTTags: Bob Greenblatt, Fear Factor, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

NBC’s once high-flying reboot of Fear Factor will make a humble exit as a regular series tonight with a rerun replacing an episode pulled by the network amidst controversy. The episode, Hee Haw! Hee Haw!, would’ve probably made it to air had it not been for NBC hosting a GOP presidential debate. The Fear Factor episode, originally slated for January 23, was pre-empted for the debate and moved to January 30. Then last Thursday, January 26, TMZ posted a story about a stunt in the episode described in the NBC synopsis as one where “the teams put themselves to the test eating the unimaginable.” According to TMZ, the unimaginable was donkey semen and urine. Controversy ensued, and late Friday night, NBC sent out a scheduling advisory listing another episode, which originally aired January 2, as replacing Hee Haw! NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt today addressed the controversy with a statement: “I reviewed the episode late last week and decided it was a segment we should not air.” Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Strong Relaunch For ‘Fear Factor’, ’2.5 Men’ Hits Season Low

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday December 13, 2011 @ 9:15am PSTTags: Fear Factor, Rock Center With Brian Williams, Two and a Half Men
Nellie Andreeva

Viewers still love ‘em worms and cockroaches. After a five-year break, NBC’s Fear Factor returned to the schedule last night with ratings the likes of which NBC has not seen in a long while. The gross-out reality series premiered with back-to-back episodes averaging a 3.1 rating/8 share in adults 18-49 (8.7 million total viewers) at 8 PM and a 3.5/8 (8.5 million) at 9 PM. Both hours posted season highs in their time slots, outperforming NBC’s 18-49 season averages by 88% and 106%, respectively. Fear Factor, back with its original producing team and host Joe Rogan, helped struggling newsmagazine Rock Center With Brian Williams (1.1/3, 4 million), which was up 22% from last week to match its series high in 18-49. NBC (2.6/7, 7 million for the night), always dead last on Mondays this fall, finished a competitive second behind CBS (3.6/9, 12 million). Read More »

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NBC To Launch New Reality Show ‘Who’s Still Standing?’ In December As A Strip

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: Fear Factor, NBC, Paul Telegdy, TV Schedule, Who's Still Standing
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Once again NBC will be launching a reality series as a strip during the holiday season in December. Following in the footsteps of Deal Or No Deal, Clash Of The Choirs and The Sing-Off, new trivia competition show Who’s Still … Read More »

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NBC’s ‘Fear Factor’ Returns Dec. 12, Will Air Mondays 8-10 PM

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 19, 2011 @ 11:10am PDTTags: Endemol USA, Fear Factor, NBC, The Sing-Off, The Voice, TV Schedule
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NBC has scheduled the reboot of Fear Factor, which will serve as a bridge between The Sing-Off and The Voice in the Monday 8-10 PM slot. The revamped gross-out competition will premiere on December 12. “We have taken the groundbreaking … Read More »

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