Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Another Fear Factor reboot is in the works according to Variety. Producer Endemol Shine North America and CEO Sharon Levy are ...

With nightmarish antics like bug eating, diving off high buildings and even getting bad haircuts as a constant, it's obvious why Fear Factor quickly became a staple of early 2000s television.

While they could have just re-done Fear Factor as it was in the early 2000s and probably collected their profit, the company is dreaming bigger. For their Deal or No Deal reinvigoration ...

We have amazing IP coming in from different angles.” “I am a huge horror fan,” Levy says of her “Fear Factor” reimagining. The show originally ran on NBC (with host Joe Rogan ...

When you have a category like Fear Factor, which is a social experiment with real stakes, the potential of that idea excites me. Another possibility is that it might not include any creatures at ...

Indeed, next up, Variety can exclusively report that Levy and Endemol Shine are aiming to bring back completely reinvented versions of two more signature shows: “Fear Factor” and “Wipeout.” ...

Five plucky contestants take part in the death-defying game show that offers $50,000 first prize to whoever best survives a series of gruelling challenges. This week, there's a spot of target ...

With nightmarish antics like bug eating, diving off high buildings and even getting bad haircuts as a constant, it's obvious why Fear Factor quickly became a staple of early 2000s television. If you ...