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Fear Itself
Fear Itself intertitle
Genre	Horror Suspense
Created by	Mick Garris
Theme music composer	Serj Tankian
Opening theme	"Lie Lie Lie" by Serj Tankian
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer	Andrew Deane
Producers	Adam Goldworm Grant Rosenberg Ben Browning
Production locations	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Running time	42 mins
Production companies	Fear Itself Productions Industry Entertainment Lionsgate Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	June 5 (2008-06-05) – July 31, 2008 (2008-07-31)

Fear Itself is an American horror-suspense anthology television series. It debuted on NBC on June 5, 2008, but was pulled from the air after late July 2008 with five episodes remaining unaired. On March 13, 2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled and would not return to NBC.

Production and development

Its title is derived from the famous Franklin D. Roosevelt quote, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." The anthology was born out of Masters of Horror and shares several of the same creative elements. It features self-contained horror/thriller stories directed by the biggest horror directors working in features, both shows were created by Mick Garris, and both shows are produced by Industry Entertainment's Andrew Deane, Adam Goldworm, and Ben Browning. Stuart Gordon, Brad Anderson, John Landis, Ernest Dickerson, and Rob Schmidt all directed at least one episode of each series.

The series was filmed in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with some additional filming taking place in the city of St. Albert and the town of Devon, Alberta. Guest stars included Eric Roberts, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Josie Davis, Briana Evigan, Jesse Plemons, Elisabeth Moss, and Cory Monteith. The song in the opening credits is titled "Lie Lie Lie" by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian from his first solo album Elect the Dead.

Broadcast

The show aired on Thursday nights at 10/9c. It was put on hiatus for the duration of the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the promise of a return once the event was over, but no further episodes were aired. While NBC failed to comment on the fate of the series once the Olympics ended, its time-slot was thereafter filled with re-runs of other NBC shows, and Fear Itself did not appear on the NBC Fall 2008 schedule.

In the UK, the show started airing on 5* from Friday 4 May 2012. In Australia, the show commenced screening in August 2012 on the FX channel, available on the Foxtel platform.

Home media

The complete series was released on DVD on September 15, 2009.

Episodes

The episodes are run in a different order on the DVD and within online streaming sites.

References

1. NBC Lights Up Summer With A Burst Of Original Program Premieres As Part Of 'NBC'S All-American Summer'
2. 2008 - 2009 Cancelled Shows: NBC Cancels 10 Television Series Archived March 17, 2009, at archive.today
3. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "First Inaugural Address". Wikisource. Retrieved 2003-03-02.
4. "NBC to film series in St. Albert". CTV News. March 7, 2008. Retrieved 2021-09-19.
5. "Made in Canada: Alberta". The Hollywood Reporter. Associated Press. September 3, 2009. Retrieved 2021-09-19. With its vast oil sands and natural gas reserves, the province last year offered hard cash to Lionsgate to shoot the NBC anthology series "Fear Itself" in Edmonton when oil was at $140 a barrel.
6. 'Psych,' 'FNL' Actors Join 'Fear Itself'

External links

• Fear Itself at IMDb
• Fear Itself Directors, Writers and Stars Announced Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine

• 2000s American horror television series
• 2000s American anthology television series
• 2008 American television series debuts
• 2008 American television series endings
• American horror fiction television series
• American English-language television shows
• Horror anthologies
• NBC television dramas
• Television shows filmed in Edmonton
• Television series by Lionsgate Television