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Masters of Horrors Team Heads to NBC For 'Fear Itself'
Tuesday, September 25, 2007


By: MrDisgusting
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Did Mick Garris take Masters of Horror away from Showtime and rename it? It was announced that Lionsgate was now involved in the series, which was prepping it's third season, only it vanished from sight. This evening an interesting announcement was made over at the Hollywood Reporter as NBC has given the green light to Fear Itself, a horror-anthology series from the producers of Showtime's "Masters of Horror." So basically it's going to be "Masters of Horror" only less bloody and less scary? Yeah, we already have Ghost Whisperer. Read on for the release and more details.


NBC has ordered 13 episodes of "Fear" to air next summer.

Lionsgate has come on board to produce "Fear" along with Industry Entertainment, the company behind "Masters of Horror" and anthology series "Masters of Science Fiction," which aired on ABC this summer.

"This is a different deal model that allows us to broadcast an increasingly popular form of storytelling and provides NBC with genre entertainment that appeals to younger audiences," said Ben Silverman, co-chairman, NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios. "Our goal is to produce more scripted programming in the summer for year-round programming -- and everyone knows how well horror movies perform in summer -- so we're taking bold new steps with these acclaimed filmmakers."

Production of "Fear" is slated to begin early next year for a summer 2008 premiere.


"We're thrilled that 'Fear Itself' has found a home on NBC, which is so strongly committed to bringing viewers high-quality programming," said Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate's President of Television Programming and Production. "We also couldn't have better creative partners than Industry Entertainment, whose success in this genre is well-known."

Like "Masters of Horror," "Fear" will feature 60-minute films by big-name horror writers and directors. It will be exec produced by Keith Addis, Andrew Deane and Mick Garris, with Adam Goldworm and Ben Browning producing.

"NBC's leadership thinks 'out of the box,' and I believe this is the first show of its type on network television," Deane said. "We're very excited about the network bringing these filmmakers' unique visions to every home in America, and we're looking forward to working with Lionsgate, the preeminent distributor of horror content."

After keeping it on the shelf for about a year, ABC ran the well-reviewed "Masters of Science Fiction" in August in the very little watched Saturday 10 p.m. slot.


Source: Hollywood Reporter

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Read 5 User Comments

NoOneImportant
1:29am, September 25, 2007

This is a bunch of crap,were gonna lose all the gore and violence with it being on NBC,and the new title even sucks. Mick Garris destroys everything.


GiuseppeWinston
9:15am, September 25, 2007

Garris didn't take Masters away from Showtime, Showtime decided not to go ahead with a third season even though the show was their #2 original series. So Lionsgate stepped in to finance and find a new network. I'm happy to be getting a "third season", I just hope NBC doesn't neuter it too much.


sethdlh
9:39am, September 25, 2007

this is stupid. it was fun while it lasted


djdeathwish
1:27pm, September 25, 2007

LAME!


depecheanix
9:15pm, September 25, 2007

Oh well who cares. Gore isn't everything. Get over it.


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