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‘Fear Factor’ Goes Vertical With Scripted Microdrama

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Fox ‘s Fear Factor: House of Fear is going in a couple of new directions: The reality series will be the basis for a scripted microdrama .

Fox Entertainment Studios and Endemol Shine North America are teaming up for a vertical video show inspired by the current iteration of Fear Factor , which is going into its second season on the network (Endemol Shine North America, a Banijay company, produces the unscripted series). The microseries will stream on the My Drama platform owned by Holywater Tech, in which Fox has an equity stake . Fox Entertainment Global will handle international distribution.

According to Fox, the currently untitled microdrama will mark the first unscripted-to-scripted franchise extension in television.…

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