Fear Factor is Back!

Yes, that's right, the beloved Fear Factor is back. It first aired in 2001, then started dwindling in 2006 once new reality shows such as "Jersey Shore" and "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" started showing up. I'm personally pretty excited to see it back. I remember when I used to watch the show with my family. As gross as it was, we loved it. But I just recently watched one of the new episodes and it definitely bring me back. With the same host, Joe Rogan, and same format as before, it will attract many of the old fans. Also, with Joe Rogan commentating on Ultimate Fighter, he may attract a few of his fighting fans as well. This show has definitely always freaked me out. Bugs and creepy crawly things scare me. And I can't even imagine how awful it would be to eat a live scorpion.
The purpose of this article is to promote, as well as entertain. It's promoting the show and more importantly, the resurrection of the show. The new Fear Factor is bigger and better than it was before. As Rogan says, "'Our limit to pull someone through the air used to be 100 feet and to drop them was like 10 feet, but yesterday we pulled someone 600 feet through the air and dropped them 150 feet. There was no way that we could've done that six years ago. It basically means we're just always trying to top ourselves now.'" (Lang, quoting Rogan). The article also informs viewers of what exactly happened to Fear Factor, how it had trouble competing with other reality shows so it slowly dwindled. After leaving, the producers went to work on Wipe Out. Then, they decided to retry Fear Factor. And because of all the new technology, they were able to make things bigger and badder and scarier.






Article: 'Fear Factor" crawls back to TV by Derrik J. Lang