[1] It was created by Dan Angel and Billy Brown, who had both previously worked on John Carpenter's 1993 horror anthology Body Bags, as well as the Goosebumps series that aired on Fox Kids between 1995 and 1998.

Interest in the project they were developing was heightened following the box office success of the 1999 supernatural film The Sixth Sense.

[2] In an interview from when the show was still in the planning stages, Angel said that it was going to focus on "psychologically disturbing, suspense-driven, rich character stories".

[5] Veteran punk and metal singer Henry Rollins got hired as host after discussions with Fox executives, who in the summer of 2000 had wanted him to play a recurring role on their popular sci-fi series The X-Files.

Whoopi Goldberg expressed an interest in directing a segment for Night Visions, but was unable to due to scheduling issues.

The show was originally scheduled to debut on Fox on October 6, 2000, alongside science fiction program Freakylinks.

[10] However, the January 2001 premiere was scraped and the show was delayed again since there were threats of an actors' and writers' strike happening around that time.

[14] Michael Speier of Variety praised the show in his 2001 review, commenting "[It] is too good to get lost in the land of summer reruns.

Show was bumped from the network's fall schedule last year, proving once again that execs have zero tolerance for anthology series.

"[9] The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had a more negative review at the time, criticizing "laughable narration from meathead rocker Henry Rollins and an overreliance on violent plot twists".

[14] The 2003 edition of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror described Rollins as "a tattooed and muscle-shirted Rod Serling surrogate.

"[19] In their 2008 book Science Fiction Television Series, 1990-2004, authors Frank Garcia and Mark Phillips commented that the show "had a look of quality: Locations were varied, the photography created an ambiance of dread, and even when an ending was predictable, more often than not, it worked.

"[9] In 2018, Bloody Disgusting labelled it a "damn good horror anthology series",[20] while HorrorNews.net reflected in 2020 that the show was "unceremoniously dumped by Fox without a fair chance to find an audience".

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