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Fear Factor: Scripted Horror Goes Vertical
Fox Entertainment Studios and Endemol Shine North America are turning Fear Factor into an original scripted horror series for Holywater Tech’s My Drama app. The 30-episode vertical series follows a TV crew forced into personalised death trials by a haunted fortune-telling machine, making the franchise’s fear-testing premise the hook for a mobile-first story.
Why it worked: It flipped a legacy unscripted format into the first scripted, vertical microseries, tying franchise heat to the mobile-first boom.
The lesson: Consider pitching a famed non-fiction property reimagined in a bite-size, platform-native format that exploits the medium’s constraints as the hook.
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| Publication | Headline | Date |
|---|---|---|
| deadline.com | ‘Fear Factor’ Vertical Scripted Spinoff Set To Launch On Holywater Tech’s My Drama From Fox & Endemol Shine North America | Tuesday 27th October, 2026 |
| hollywoodreporter.com | ‘Fear Factor’ Goes Vertical With Scripted Microdrama | Tuesday 27th October, 2026 |
| variety.com | Fox and Endemol Shine Team to Adapt ‘Fear Factor’ as a Scripted Microdrama Series for My Drama App | Tuesday 27th October, 2026 |
| broadwayworld.com | Fear Factor to Debut as Original Scripted Horror Series on My Drama | BroadwayWorld | Tuesday 27th October, 2026 |
| banijay.com | Fear Conquers a New Dimension | Banijay | Wednesday 28th October, 2026 |
| cbr.com | Fear Factor Officially Returns After 8 Years With Major Format Change | Wednesday 28th October, 2026 |
| europawire.eu | FOX and Endemol Shine develop Fear Factor-inspired scripted horror series for My Drama | EuropaWire | Wednesday 28th October, 2026 |
| horrornewsnetwork.net | 'Fear Factor' Gets Scripted Series - Horror News Network | Wednesday 28th October, 2026 |