Fox network president Michael Thorn says he and his team have “been talking” about reviving The Weakest Link “since maybe last summer.” There were “a couple opportunities” at stake, Thorn said on a conference call, the “first to get Jane Lynch back on the network.”

The network announced that the notorious reality competition series will return for Fear Factor: The Next Chapter, which is described as a “bigger, bolder and more daring” version of the previous show, which ran from 2001 to 2006 (and was briefly revived at MTV for two seasons hosted by Ludacris ).

Fox is rebooting NBC’s iconic competition series “Fear Factor” — but will it come complete with the show’s iconic original host, Joe Rogan? “We just ordered the series and we are just in the process of hiring showrunners and talking about hosts and everything right now,