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Exclusive: NBC Developing Home Transformation Show

NBC is putting out the call to find designers, builders, decorators and craftsmen to compete in a new home improvement reality competition.

The show, which is being developed under the working title Home Transformers, will split contestants into teams as they compete to rebuild rundown homes around the country. NBC hasn't determined the prize yet, but is characterizing it for now as "life changing."

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Season 7, Episode 4
Partners face being catapulted off a building, getting stuck in a coffin with snakes and hanging from a chopper over water.
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Length: 43:53
Posted: 1/3/2012
On Fear Factor, people must decide if they have the guts and determination to face their most primal fears when confronted with a series of challenging stunts. In each pulse-racing episode, contestants vie for a cash prize of $50,000 or more.
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Posted: 10/13/2011
Season 7, Episode 1
Four teams of exes face challenges from escaping from a submerged car, climbing on top a moving bus, and getting dropped into a speed boat from a helicopter on the way to the $50,000.
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Length: 43:53
Posted: 12/13/2011
Eat Carmel Spider, Exploding Room
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Length: 44:00
Posted: 10/13/2011
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Exclusive: NBC Developing Home Transformation Show

NBC is putting out the call to find designers, builders, decorators and craftsmen to compete in a new home improvement reality competition.

The show, which is being developed under the working title Home Transformers, will split contestants into teams as they compete to rebuild rundown homes around the country. NBC hasn't determined the prize yet, but is characterizing it for now as "life changing."

NBC has put out an open casting call for this.... read more

Fear Factor Reboot Returns This December

NBC will premiere what it's calling the "bigger and more outrageous" version of Fear Factor on Dec. 12, the network announced Wednesday.

Fear Factor will take over The Sing-Off's 8/7c timeslot a week after the singing competition wraps Season 3. Hosted once again by Joe Rogan, the show will follow the same format of the original — awarding $50,000 to the team that overcomes their fears and wins the final challenge.

Check out all the familiar faces returning to TV this year

Upcoming challenges will include... read more

Wipeout and 101 Ways Producer Matt Kunitz on His Reality Lessons

Reality producer Matt Kunitz has asked contestants to eat foul bugs (on Fear Factor) and jump on big red balls (see Wipeout). But that's child's play compared to what he's put people through on ABC's recent new entry, 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show.

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Exclusive: Joe Rogan to Return as Fear Factor Host

Joe Rogan has officially signed on to return as the host of NBC's Fear Factor revival. Rogan, who hosted the show's original run from 2001 to 2006, will be on hand when production begins at the end of July.

"It doesn't seem real," Rogan tells TV Guide Magazine. "It seems like some sort of bizarro dream world. But I'm looking forward to it. The idea of sitting at home and watching someone else host it would have driven me crazy."

NBC has ordered eight episodes of the reborn Fear Factor, which producers say ...
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Bigger -- But Maybe Less Shocking -- Fear Factor to Return to NBC

Fear is not a factor for NBC when it comes to resurrecting one of its reality competition shows.

The network is rebooting Fear Factor, its classic game show in which competitors conquer gross or daring challenges in the hopes of winning a cash prize, EW reports.

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Premiered: June 11, 2001, on NBC
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Premise: A critic-proof reality show in which contestants perform extreme (and not infrequently gross) tests---from getting into a pit filled with scorpions or rats to walking through a burning building to eating a sheep's eyes---in hopes of winning a grand prize. The series has proven to be undeniably popular and is in no danger of winning a Peabody Award.

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