Fear Itself (TV series)

Fear Itself
Fear Itself intertitle
Genre	Horror
Created by	Mick Garris
Theme music composer	Serj Tankian
Opening theme	"Lie Lie Lie" by Serj Tankian
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Andrew Deane
Producer(s)	Adam Goldworm Grant Rosenberg Ben Browning
Location(s)	Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Running time	42 min. (approx.)
Production company(s)	Fear Itself Productions Industry Entertainment Lionsgate Television
Release
Original network	NBC / AXN Sci-Fi
Original release	June 5 – July 31, 2008

Fear Itself is a horror/suspense anthology television series shot in the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with some additional shooting in the city of St. Albert and the town of Devon, Alberta. It began airing on June 5, 2008 on NBC.

The show aired 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.

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 today, 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 and Rob Schmidt all directed at least one episode of each series. Guest stars included Eric Roberts, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Briana Evigan, Elisabeth Moss, and Cory Monteith. The song in the opening credits is entitled "Lie Lie Lie" by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, from his first solo album Elect the Dead.