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Late last year, it was announced that three of the UK’s biggest YouTube stars -- Marcus Butler, Alfie Deyes, and Joe Sugg -- would appear in an episode of the hit British reality series Release The Hounds, a horror-themed competition airing on ITV2 in which contestants are dropped into ominous scenarios and must endure scary challenges in order to win cash.

Now, a trailer for Release The Hounds: Famous And Freaked -- a celebrity edition of the show in which Butler, Deyes, and Sugg will be pelted with a paintball gun drone and trek through an assault course as faux explosions are detonated all around them -- has finally arrived.

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Three of YouTube’s most beloved British heartthrobs are set to star in one of the country’s most popular reality series. Marcus Butler, Alfie Deyes, and Joe Sugg have all been cast in next season's celebrity edition of Release The Hounds, reports Radio Times.

The horror game show, which airs on ITV, drops contestants into a forest where they must then endure scary challenges in order to win cash. The ultimate challenge, according to the show, is to outrun a pack of vicious dogs trained to guard the prizes. Debuting next year, the celebrity edition of the series, dubbed Release The Hounds: Famous And Freaked, will pit YouTube’s finest against British reality stars from popular shows like The Only Way Is Essex and I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!

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The studio is building its unscripted portfolio with the announcement that it has bought a stake in new production company Primal Media.

The company, formed by Gogglebox founders and executive producers Mat Steiner and Adam Wood, will develop and produce unscripted programmes in the UK and work with Lionsgate’s alternative programming team in the Us to produce Us formats for the UK market.

Lionsgate will distribute Primal Media’s content worldwide and will produce formats owned by Primal Media for the Us and worldwide market.

Steiner and Wood’s formats have garnered six Emmys and include UK formats Release The Hounds (ITV2), Cash Cab (ITV), The Code (BBC1), Playing It Straight (C4), Man v Fly, and Breakaway (BBC2).

Primal Media’s first two commissions will see a third season of Release The Hounds and a second season of The Code (BBC1), both in 2017.

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Lionsgate announced on Tuesday that it has acquired a stake in the UK unscripted television production company Primal Media. Primal was formed by “Gogglebox” format creators and executive producers Mat Steiner and Adam Wood. Their credits include UK formats “Release The Hounds,” “Cash Cab,” “The Code,” “The Exit List,” and “Breakaway,” among many others. Their formats have sold across the world, amassing over 15,000 episodes. Primal Media has already secured its first two commissions with the third season of “Release The Hounds” and a second season of “The Code,” both for 2017. Also Read: Lionsgate-Starz Deal Shows How Digital Has Upended TV Business (Analysis) Lionsgate.

Sam Pollard and James Abadi, co-creators of horror/game show hybrid Release The Hounds, have teamed with FremantleMedia to launch UK indie, Dr Pluto. Fremantle’s investment in the company gives it a 25% stake with the option to increase its share in the future. Previously at Sony's now-defunct Gogglebox Entertainment, Pollard and Abadi are looking to develop concepts across all genres and platforms with a focus on diversity of mind. "All we are interested in is content…...

Release The Hounds host Reggie Yates has revealed that people in television have no idea how ITV2 is allowed to broadcast Release The Hounds.

The terrifying horror game-show - which Yates declared is "bigger and better" this year - sees contestants taking part in various scary games before literally running from a pack of dogs, all in an attempt to win some cash.

"I have people saying to me, 'I don't know how you're getting away with what you're doing', particularly people who work in telly!" Yates told Digital Spy. "They're like, 'How are you getting away with that?' That's definitely the conversation that I'm having on a regular basis."

And Yates admitted that he would never take part in the game himself, saying: "I'd never do it. It's not something I'd ever want to do. I really enjoy the role that I play and I don't see that changing any time soon.

Reggie Yates has revealed that he is working on a new series of Extreme documentaries set in the UK.

Yates has previously filmed Extreme programmes in South Africa and Russia but revealed that the next series will be much closer to home.

"It's going to air next year," he told Digital Spy. "It's three episodes, it's all in the UK and it's mind-blowing. It's mind-blowing, the stuff that we get into, so I can't wait for people to see it. And also for people to have a moment to go, 'Holy crap, that's actually happening here where I live'."

Yates, who revealed that he's "not worried" about BBC Three's move online, also examines the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri in tonight's Reggie Yates: Race Riots USA.

"I get under the skin of the whole Mike Brown situation – I talk to people who are in favour of the police...

New clips from Diversity's forthcoming Release the Hounds: Jingle Hell Christmas special has been revealed.

Watch the dance troupe receive the scare of their lives in a clip below:

Ashley Banjo, Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely from the dance group will take on challenges and spooky tasks to win money for charity.

The boys will meet former X Factor stars and endure a frightening Christmas dinner on the show presented by Reggie Yates.

The Diversity members are raising money for Nspcc and the Princess Diana Anti Bullying Trust.

The street dance troupe will embark on their 'Up Close and Personal' tour in autumn and winter next year.

Release The Hounds: Jingle Hell airs tonight (December 18) at 9pm on ITV2.

Horror/game show hybrid Release The Hounds debuted as a Halloween special on the UK’s ITV2 last year. The one-off episode received positive notices for the premise, and an outpouring of interest on Twitter. ITV has now commissioned a six-episode series to be produced by Sony Pictures Television‘s UK production joint venture Gogglebox. Production starts on the hourlong show this spring. It will be fronted by UK TV personality Reggie Yates. Release The Hounds mixes two genres by sending unsuspecting contestants into a forest at dusk as they seek out chests full of prize money. In order to win big after a series of challenges, they must outrun a pack of hounds trained to guard the cash. Gogglebox created the series with Sony Pictures Television distributing the format internationally; it’s currently in discussions with other territories. Executive producers are Gogglebox founders Adam Wood and Mat Steiner. Related:...

Welcome back to the series of posts here at SciFi Mafia that we’re calling Web Series Wednesday where we devote a space to the wonderment of the web series. Every Wednesday we’ll cover an awesome web series and give you all the info to get into it.

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This week we’re covering Release the Hounds.

This three episode (as of this post) web series, Release the Hounds, is a fun little game show! It goes along with three contestants who are dropped onto an estate in the woods who are pitted against some pretty spooky scenarios. Once they’ve conquered their fears and adrenaline they choose who among them will...

Time to do more than just kill a little time as we have the first three episodes of the UK horror TV game show "Release the Hounds" right here for you to chew on. That's right, kids! Now you can get all caught up!

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Horror is a reality as multi-channel network Collective Digital Studio (Cds) showcases the brand new horror game show "Release The Hounds" on Cds’s Metacafe and BlackBoxTV on YouTube in a groundbreaking approach to bring a hit UK show to audiences worldwide.

"Release The Hounds," produced by UK-based Gogglebox Entertainment, features three unsuspecting contestants who enter a forest at dusk in a quest to unlock chests full of prize money. Little do they know that in order to win big, they have to face the scariest challenges ever endured on TV.

To locate the keys to the chests, contestants must enter a field of crucified scarecrows,...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes a call for entries for Scream Factory’s 2013 Mini-Movie Massacre, a trailer for Alice D with Kane Hodder, details on a horror-based game show called Release the Hounds, video highlights of The Walking Dead‘s Norman Reedus’s interview with Conan O’Brien, and much more:

Scream Factory’s 2013 Mini-Movie Massacre Call for Entries: “Scream Factory, the premiere horror genre home entertainment provider, announced today the launch of its Mini-movie Massacre horror short film & video contest to be held on Scream Factory’s official YouTube channel Scream Factory TV. The call for entries is now open starting, October 31 through the deadline of November 17.

Presented by Scream Factory, the 2013 Mini-movie Massacre was created to shine the spotlights on some of today’s best independent horror short films and videos,...