If you’re a fan of The Twilight Zone (either the original series or the 2002 series), Alfred Hitchcock Presents or The Outer Limits (the original or the modern), then you might be excited to learn that NBC plans a new horror anthology TV series!

That’s right, it’ll be something similar to what Showtime has with their Masters of Horror series. Which is a huge boon for those of us who don’t have the extra bucks to shell out for pay channels.

According to the showbiz insiders over at Variety, NBC’s going to air thirteen (that’s a lucky number for horror!) episodes of a horror anthology set to be called Fear Itself. Each episode will be an hour long and brought to us by creator Mick Garris, the guy who not only directed Stephen King’s Desperation AND Riding the Bullet, but he produced We Scream for Ice Cream (which I loved)! Oh, and of course the Masters of Horror series on Showtime (for which We Scream for Ice Cream was an episode).

Those of us who tune in will be treated by episodes directed by a range of directors including: Mary Harron (direcor of American Psycho and The Rainbow of Her Reasons episode from Six Feet Under), Darren Bousman (director of Saw 2, 3 and 4), John Landis (writer/director of American Werewolf in London as well as the Family and Deer Woman episodes from Masters of Horror), John Dahl (director of You Kill Me, Joy Ride and two episodes of Tilt), Stuart Gordon (director of Dagon and Re-Animator) who’s directing the pilot episode titled Eater. If you ask me we’re in for a great show. I mean look at those credits!

As for episodes, I’ve only managed to discover a little bit of info on that so far. Looks like there’ll be one featuring Brandon Routh (who you may know as Superman or Clark Kent from 2006’s Superman Returns) and Shiri Appleby who’s television credits include everything from Doogie Howser, M.D. to Baywatch to ER to Xena: Warrior Princess and even Roswell! Appleby and Routh episode (titled Community) has them playing a couple who move into a picture perfect little suburban community before learning what life there is really like. Another episode features a pair of private investigators checking out a hanted house. Finally there’ll be the obligatory serial killer episode where a young police officer gets the opportunity to learn about psychos right up close!

From the sounds of it, we shouldn’t expect quite as much from Fear Itself as Masters of Horror got to show because NBC is, after all, a broadcast network with different regulations it must abide by.

I’m absolutely ecstatic about this news! The series should be airing on your local NBC station starting June 5th, so be sure to tune in. Hopefully they’ll end up with much better ratings than the Masters of Sci Fi got for ABC, right?

-- by GlowStormLion of http://www.happyhorror.com

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