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Fox and Endemol Shine Turn Fear Factor Into a Scripted Vertical Horror Microseries

The studio partners announced a 30‑episode, three‑minute series for Holywater Tech’s My Drama to test mobile-first storytelling and global windowing.

Overview

  • The companies officially announced the untitled Fear Factor scripted spinoff on Tuesday as a vertical microseries made up of thirty three‑minute episodes designed for mobile viewing.
  • The story is billed as a horror set during prep week on a remote TV horror set where a haunted fortune‑telling machine forces personalized death trials for the crew.
  • Thom Woodley and Andrew Beck are credited as writers, Gabriel Caste as director, and Ian Nsenga and Yuliia Vyshnevska as producers on the physical production.
  • The series will stream exclusively on Holywater Tech’s My Drama app, with Fox Entertainment Global handling international distribution and Fox holding an equity stake in Holywater.
  • Fox frames the project as the first unscripted‑to‑scripted franchise extension and says the move follows the strong multiplatform debut of Fear Factor: House of Fear and its Season 2 renewal, signaling a test case for repurposing legacy reality IP into short‑form scripted formats.