Fear Factor is an American acrobat action game originally aired on NBC from 2001 to 2006. Then revived by NBC in 2011, will only be canceled again in 2012 This event revived for the second time in 2017 for broadcast on MTV. The original Dutch version is called Now or Neverland . When Endemol USA and NBC adjusted to the American market in 2001, they changed their name to Fear Factor . Performances pit contestants against each other in various actions for the grand prize, usually US $ 50,000. From season one to five, the contestants are generally three men and three women, all competing for themselves, but in season six, the event moved into a permanent format of four teams of two people, each with an existing relationship to each other. The event was originally hosted by UFC comedian and commentator Joe Rogan, produced by Matt Kunitz and David A. Hurwitz, and directed by J. Rupert Thompson. Rapper/actor Ludacris took over as host when the show was restarted in 2017. Video Fear Factor
History
In response to NBC's successful Survivor series, the event was initially a hit for the network in the summer of 2001, and built strong ratings and popularity for the next few seasons. Joe Rogan, later known for his role in the sitcom NewsRadio (1995-1999) and as a commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship was hired as host. According to a 2015 interview with Art Bell, Rogan hopes Fear Factor will be canceled after several episodes over objections to some content and subsequently reports that he took the job primarily to gain observations and anecdotes for his stand-up comedy career.
After the runaway success of the first few seasons, the popularity of
With Chiller's Chug Show on Sunday night's event, Chiller's ranking prompted Comcast to notify Entertainment Weekly in a May 31, 2011 report that Fear Factor will be revived for the new season. Eight episodes were ordered, with two of them being a two hour episode and Rogan returning to the hosting duty. The awakening was recorded in high definition, and due to concerns over the ongoing NFL Lockout and the loss of NBC's Sunday Night Football episode, TV Guide reported in early July the show could be ready as early as possible. as September as a lockout replacement programming. (NBC finally lost an episode, the inaugural Hall of Fame Game season, due to lockout ending in late July) The program began airing December 12, 2011, with the final episode airing July 16, 2012. On May 13, 2012, NBC announced that Fear Factor is officially canceled.
In April 2017, MTV announced that it will revive Fear Factor for the second time in 12 episodes of the season. The first season of MTV's
In addition to Chiller, replays of Fear Factor have been live in syndication, on FX and MTV2. The series also has a YouTube channel, where previously undisplayed footage is displayed.
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Original format
Before the contestant was introduced (and at the halfway point of two special hours), Rogan gave a verbal disclaimer. His words have changed with a certain version, but this is the most commonly used:
Before Rogan gave a verbal disclaimer, the narrator gave a statement, and this is the most commonly used:
The normal format involves three men and three women, or four teams of two people with pre-existing relationships, who must complete three professional actions to win US $ 50,000. If the contestant/team is too afraid to try acrobats, fail to complete the action, or (in some cases) have the worst performance in action, they are eliminated from the competition. If only one contestant/team successfully completes the first or second action, they automatically win $ 25,000, and the other contestants are eliminated in action along with the winner of the replacement cast for the next action to compete for the remaining $ 25,000. If no one completes the first or second action, all contestants/teams who are eliminated in action will return to the next action to compete for a reduced $ 25,000 (this rule does not apply to non-elimination actions). The only exception to this is in the first season, where if one person completes the action, then the complement wins $ 10,000 and the $ 50,000 prize is not reduced.
Only once in the history of
After the acquisition of Universal Studios of Vivendi by NBC's parent company General Electric in 2004, the contestants could win a holiday to promote the NBC Universal division of Universal Park, or win a trip to Universal Studios in Hollywood.
The sequence of stunts in the typical episode of Fear Factor is as follows:
First Action: The first action is designed to physically test each contestant or team (for example, jumping from one building to another building or hanging from a helicopter and collecting flags on the stairs). Typically, two men and two women, or three teams, who deliver the best performance (like the fastest time, farthest distance, or number of flags collected in a given time) will move on to the second action. The others are omitted.
Second Action: The second action is meant to challenge the contestant or team's mental. The three most common types of stunts in the second half are stunts, animal stunts, and retuntal/stunt transfers. Eating stunts entails swallowing parts of vile animals, live bugs, or mixed herbs of multiple items; animal action entails burrowing a person's or a whole body's head in an animal that is considered repulsive or intimidating (such as rats, spiders, snakes, or worms); taking action requires the taking of dirty things or objects (often by mouth) hidden in a disgusting substance (eg, blood or lard) or live animals. Less often, the second action involves challenges of pain resilience or embarrassing tolerance challenges, such as long-lasting competitor in teargas chamber, walking on broken glass with bare feet, making tattoos, shaving hair, taking piercings, or swallowing habanero chili.. With the exception of taking action/transfer, contestants are usually not removed after this action unless they fail to complete or vomit before completion. In the case of a team, a team can be eliminated because it has the worst performance. In the next episode, the general rule (but not always used) is that nothing will be removed after the second action; on the contrary, the best performing contestant or team will receive a gift, such as a vehicle or gift package of similar value. More often than not, the best performing contestant/team has the privilege of choosing an order that the contestant/team has to perform for the next action [for the next day].
Third Action: The third and final action is usually something of the extreme type of action seen in the action film. Like the first action, it usually involves heights, water, vehicles, or a combination of all three. To avoid bonding, this action is always competitive. The player with the best performance of this round wins the grand prize, usually $ 50,000, and has the privilege of getting information from Rogan that "obviously, fear is not a factor for you".
Custom format
Four Stunt Show
This is usually a 90 minute episode featuring four actions instead of three. The first such episodes are aired in Season 3 and are notorious for acts involving body piercing. In Seasons 4 through 6, at least one of the four stunts is a non-elimination action in which contestants compete for prizes. The four-stunt format is sometimes used in conjunction with themed episodes, such as Family Fear Factor, Twins Fear Factor, and Thanksgiving Fear Factor. In Season 5, six contestants from another reality show compete in two hours, episode four scenes for $ 50,000.
Expanded Competition
Some of the Fear Factor competitions consist of five or more stunts and feature an increasingly important prize. This competition is always presented as a multi-part episode or a two-hour single episode. The first such competition is the Champions Tournament at Seasons 2 and 3 (see below). Season 4 includes a two-hour season premiere in which twelve contestants compete in six acrobatics for the $ 1,000,000 grand prize; and two parts, six Las Vegas action episodes in which the winner will have the chance to win up to $ 100,000 based on his performance in the last act (they then have to bet their half-won in the hands of blackjack). Season 6 features two episodes, six-stunt competitions ("Psycho Fear Factor" and "Reality Stars Fear Factor"). Season 7 includes two five-game competitions in which five teams compete for the $ 100,000 grand prize; which first aired as a two-hour episode, and the second aired in two parts.
Tournament Champion: The second and third seasons end with a Champion Tournament featuring the winners of each show that season and a $ 100,000 prize. In Season two, thirteen non-celebrity winners were divided into groups of eight men and five women. For the first four stunts, men compete between men and women competing among women, in two stunts each. The men had to remove the flag from the locked box while hanging in the air and eating three different items from the table. The women had to collect the flags while on the plane and pick up three poles from the tank with the crocodile. This action narrows the contestants down from eight men and five women to two men and two women who will eventually compete for the main prize by using a key to activate the horns while boarding the oncoming truck. In Season three, twenty-four winners were divided into two groups of twelve, each consisting of seven men and five women. In the first semi-final episode, the group was cut from two to six to three into two finalists. In the second semi-final episode, the group was cut from twelve to six in the first action, then the men competed among the men and the women competed among the women in the second action, and then the last four contestants, two men and two women, were cut off into two finalists. Each finalist won the 2004 Mazda RX-8 and a $ 100,000 chance. In the final, four finalists compete in three stunts. Each acrobat removes one contestant, and the final action determines the winner.
Fear Factor Pair: Season 4 and 5 both include Pair of Fear Factor that plays over seven episodes and displays a $ 1,000,000 main prize. Nine pairs competed in 17 stunts in Season 4, and eight pairs competed in 14 stunts in Season 5. In Season 4, each episode contained two or three actions, with at least one action being non-eliminated. In Season 5, each episode features two actions; the first is always a non-elimination action, and the second usually gets rid of the team with the worst performance. Unlike the regular format, only one team is eliminated in each elimination action; if some teams fail in action, then a successful team will select a team that fails to be eliminated. Nearly every action offers a reward (e.g., Car, vacation, pre-loaded credit card, opportunity to steal the desired gift from another team) or $ 10,000 incentive to the best performing team. The Fear Couple Factor episodes have certain stylistic differences from regular formats, including different opening sequences, and on-screen interviews with contestants (regular episodes typically feature interviews in dub voice format only).
Psycho Fear Factor: A three-episode series in which six pairs compete in six acrobats for prizes and cash, including a $ 250,000 grand prize. Stunts centered around Bates Motel on the set of the original horror movie Psycho from Paramount Pictures. Unlike other Fear Factor episodes, contestants are asked to sleep in the dirty Bates Motel between the action and are subjected to prank FACT Factor and mini-challenge while in the motel.
Reality Facts Fear Factor: A three-episode series where five teams of Reality TV stars compete in six acrobatics for prizes and cash, including a $ 150,000 grand prize. This series features teams from The Amazing Race Survivor , American Idol , The Apprentice , and The Real World .
Other formats
Celebrity special (Seasons two, three, and six): In Seasons 2 and 3, episodes with celebrity contestants are played in normal format, except that contestants play for charity. The winning contestant's contribution will receive $ 50,000, and other contestant charities will receive a smaller amount ($ 10,000 or $ 25,000). In Season 6, eight celebrity contestants paired into two teams for the first two stunts but each competed in the final act. Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Richardson, and Alan Thicke are among the celebrities who compete in
All-Gross Show (Season three to six): The three actions on this event follow the second (dirty) action format as described above. The first episode involved oscillating for objects in a barrel containing 50 gallons of cow's blood. In season four and five years, the all-gross format is used for Halloween-themed episodes. In season six, the "Farm Fear Factor" episode shows all the dirty action.
Individual Mixed and Stunt Team (Season two, five, and six): In most episodes, contestants compete individually or in team two for the entire competition. However, there are three episodes in which the contestant is paired into the team for the first and/or second action but competes individually in the last act. The first example of this is the Season 2 episode where three pairs of twins compete as teams in the first action, and compete individually the second and third stunts. In Season 5 "New York vs. L.A." episode, the first action narrows eight contestants into four (one man and one woman from each city); contestants from the same city then work together in the second action, and all contestants compete as individuals in the last act. Season 6 celebrity episodes have contestants competing as teams in the first two stunts and individually in the last act. In the final episode, contestants are allowed to try stunts alone if their partner stops before the action begins.
Special holidays (Season three to five): During the series, Fear Factor produces three episodes of Christmas, two Halloween episodes, and the Thanksgiving episode. Christmas episodes feature Christmas-themed action but are played in a normal format. The Halloween episode follows an all-gross format, and the Thanksgiving episode follows a four-acrobatic format.
Las Vegas Events (Season three to five): Action takes place in various Las Vegas hotels and casinos. Event winners are required to bet at least half of their winnings on one hand Blackjack, with the opportunity to continue gambling if successful.
Special Contestants (Season two to seven): Some episodes feature special types of contestants (eg, models, all women, twins, military members, reality TV stars, freaks and freaks, young and old, returning contestants ) or teams with certain types of relationships (eg, spouses, newlyweds, siblings, good friends, parent/child teams, existing people). Many of these episodes are played in a regular format, although some use a four-stunt or extended competition format.
Super Bowl Fear Factor Halftime Show (Season two): Plays in normal format with Playboy Playboy . The first action that was aired as a counter program to the Super Bowl event paused and ended just before the third quarter of the game started. The remaining two stunts are shown immediately after the game as counter programming for the Super Bowl event.
Miss USA (Season three to five): Plays in normal format with Miss USA contestants, with winning contestants saving $ 25,000 and giving $ 25,000 to charity of their choice. No Miss USA edition in the sixth season Fear Factor , because NBC produced the Miss USA edition of Deal or No Deal instead; Miss USA contestants are a suitcase model for the entire episode. The next time the Miss USA delegation will be involved in a game show in 2010 at Minute to Win It . The Miss USA edition was not present in the last two seasons of the event, as the current format has four teams of two people.
Blind Date (Season six): Four single men are introduced to four single women, and either women (in the first episode) or men (in the second episode) must choose their partner among the available contestants of the opposite sex. The match is then played in a regular format, with the winning team sharing the prize.
Sleep Deprivation (Season four): Five pairs of contestant co-eds compete as teams in normal format, with one exception: contestants must stay awake for 48 hours of competition. If a contestant falls asleep anytime before the final action is over, his team will be eliminated. This is the only episode in the TV series where contestants can be eliminated during a break between performances.
Million Dollar Heist: (Season six): Played in a regular team format, but instead of competing for a normal $ 50,000 prize, the team will head-to-head contest to "steal" up to $ 1,000,000 gold from a submerged armored truck for their last action. Teams that "steal" the wealth of gold the most money within the time limit will win the combined sum of money collected by both teams.
House Invasion : This short segment is included at the end of every episode in Season six. This involves Joe Rogan going to different homes across America and challenging families to compete in acrobatics. Each acrobat usually involves a contestant, under a time limit (usually one minute), swallowing or swinging something rotten or unwanted. If successful, the family will win up to $ 5,000 in the form of a pre-loaded credit card from Capital One.
Revived series
The series revival began airing on December 12, 2011, and two episodes of prime were seen by 8.7 million and 8.5 million viewers, respectively. This makes the premiere of the highest non-sport program to be aired on NBC at 8:00 pm. since February 2008. Following Rogan's word for verbal rejection, the narrator gives a statement, and this is the most commonly used:
The resurrection featured four teams of two people with pre-existing relationships per episode, not the original version of 'six people (three boys and three girls). The first five seasons usually use three men, three groups of women, but the sixth and final pre-awakening season always utilizes 4 teams of two each. Stunts remain essentially the same, with the "dirty" between the two physical ones.
NBC drew two hours, five teams, five action episodes titled "Leeches & Shaved Heads & Tear Gas, Oh My!" which features an action in which teams spin the wheel to determine whether they should shave their heads and eyebrows, tattoos, or have to be gassed with tears. This episode is scheduled to air in two parts on 23 and 30 January 2012, but is postponed after Part 1 is replaced with a GOP debate.
Another episode, titled "Hee Haw! Hee Haw!" and featuring acrobats where contestants drink urine and donkey's semen and then scheduled for airing on January 30, 2012. Hesitant about showing acrobatics, NBC finally drew the episode after the action photos appeared online. The action video footage appears online after the episode aired on Danish TV in June 2012, and Fear Factor finally posted a short clip of all three actions on their YouTube channel in July 2014.
The sixth episode, titled "The Bees Are So Angry", is two hours apart, and includes five teams, five stunts, and a $ 100,000 prize, not four regular teams, three stunts, and a $ 50,000 prize. After this episode, The Voice replaces the series slot on Monday night.
NBC rescheduled two hours "Leech & Head Shaved & Eye Gas, Oh My!" episode, which aired in two parts during the night of July 9th and July 16th. The first section ends with a subclause of "Continued" followed by a preview for the second section. In July 2012, Fear Factor was officially canceled.
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MTV format
MTV's
And for the second season:
However, the sequence of actions, as well as some rules, differs from the original format. Each episode of MTV has three episodes named Beat the Beast, Face Your Fear, and The Final Fear.
Beat the Beast: This action challenges contestants to conquer their fear of something creepy (usually a rough or intimidating creature) and generally follows the same format as the animal action of the second action of the original version. The best performing team in this round wins the "FearVantage", which is an advantage in the next round (like choosing an order).
Facing Your Fear: This is a challenge tailored to the general fears shared by all the contestants on a particular episode. The nature of the action varies greatly depending on the fears of the contestants.
Final Fear: This is an extreme physical action that follows the same format as the first and third actions of the original version of the event. The best performing team won a $ 50,000 prize.
International version
Criticism
Fear Factor has received criticism from the general public primarily because of the action of both shows, which intends to disgust the viewers. The American Humane Association expressed concern for allowing various animals to be injured, and even kill insects by eating them alive during the video footage. The association also revealed that professional animal trainers have refused to work on the show because producer Fear Factor has sued actions that violate the guidelines of the association.
American Humane believes that performances like Fear Factor are on a slippery slope of animal persecution and provide a bad example of animal treatment and human ethics. As we work diligently to extend voluntary compliance with animal safety guidelines, organizations like Endemol who openly show full disregard for animal welfare, or even from their human contestants - produce unacceptable programs. Karen Rosa (AHA Film Communication Manager and TV Unit)
In January 2005, an episode featuring action involving mixed rats that aired in its normal prime time slot. Austin Aitken, a part-time paralegal from Cleveland, Ohio, sued NBC for $ 2.5 million USD to broadcast the event, claiming he was very disgusted by watching the action, his blood pressure rising until he felt dizzy and dizzy and then vomited. He claims that his disorientation is so severe that he runs into the doorway and injures himself. In March 2005, US District Judge Lesley Wells revoked the lawsuit on the grounds of the protection of the First Amendment.
Fear Factor was also criticized by the main US electric utility for an episode that required contestants to climb through a simulated electrical substation with "electrification cables" filled with simulated sparks and electric noise added in post-processing. The Edison Electric Institute issued a warning about the episode, fearing that viewers might try to climb through a real substation with potentially fatal results.
An episode originally scheduled for January 30, 2012, featuring contestants drinking cum and donkey urine, rejected by NBC, which instead aired reruns. On January 31, 2012, two contestants, Claire's brothers and Brynne Odioso, appeared on The Cowhead Show on Tampa Bay WHPT radio station to talk about their experiences in the episode; However, according to TMZ.com, producers of Fear Factor warned Odioso's brothers not to continue discussions about the program, as it would make them violate their confidentiality agreements.
Spin-off products
Fear Factor has also produced various spin-off products:
- The game named Fear Factor: Unleashed was published by Hip Interactive for Game Boy Advance.
- A Fear Factor board game is published by Master Pieces.
- There are several books based on Fear Factor , such as The Fear Factor Cookbook and Fear Factor Mad Libs .
- New Candy, LLC. make some new candy based on Fear Factor , including eyeballs.
- A Hindi reality show called Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (English: Danger Player ) based on Fear Factor introduced in India. The host is Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar.
- The amusement park called Fear Factor Live was opened at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood in the spring of 2005. Hollywood attractions since then have been replaced by Creatures of Black Lagoon: The Musical .
- Eight champions from Fear Factor participated in the special edition The Weakest Link , originally aired August 13, 2001. This episode is worth noting because only $ 22,500 won; This stands as the lowest value on the US version of the NBC of the show.
Reference
External links
- Fear Factor on NBC
- Fear Factor (version 2011) on NBC
- Fear Factor (version 2017) at MTV
- Fear Factor Casting on NBC - 2011 Announcement of Awakening
- Fear Factor on IMDb
- Fear Factor on TV.com
- Morgan, John (2004-01-16). "Fear Factor is not afraid of a doctor". USA Today . Earned 2009-10-09 . (articles on sanitation factors and the health risks of the show)
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