Greg Nicotero’s Horror Competition Show GUTS & GLORY Sets Shudder Premiere Date

Shudder’s new unscripted, horror-based competition show Guts & Glory, from award-winning SFX wizard and and executive producer Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead, Creepshow), is set to debut with a two-episode premiere on Tuesday, September 9 on Shudder and AMC+ in the U.S. and Canada.

The six-episode series, which has Nicotero as showrunner, will flip the script on the traditional competition show, thrusting players into an immersive horror experience full of unexpected challenges.

Executive producing the AMC Studios production are Nicotero and Brian Witten from Monster Agency Productions, Chris Wagner from White Label, and Andrew Molina from Salaryman. Jeffrey F. January serves as co-executive producer.  

Previously, here's what Nicotero had to say of the upcoming series:

“I couldn’t be more excited with this opportunity to explore this new landscape.  To marry a non-scripted competition show with a genre narrative lands along the lines of ‘if Survivor and The Blair Witch Project had a baby.’  It’s one of the most creative and organic things I’ve ever done, creating FX that have to happen live in real time and capturing the honest reactions….all the while fighting to see who the winner will be. To add to the mayhem, I also got to reunite many of the key crew members from The Walking Dead Universe to help bring this show to life.”  

Among a vast and unbeatable filmography that includes FX on everything from Monkey Shines to Mulholland Drive,  Nicotero also serves as executive producer on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which was recently renewed for a fourth season at AMC.

Check out some first-look stills from Guts & Glory below and make sure to mark your calendars for September 9.