Vanaf 7 februari 2012 gaat de nieuwe Amerikaanse TV serie The River van start, en deze verteld het verhaal over een verdwijning in de jungle van de Amazone waar na familie leden en vrienden op zoek gaan. Alleen vinden ze er meer dan ze gehoopt hadden. De man achter dit project is Bruce Greenwood die we allemaal weer kennen van de Paranormal Activity films, en zijn collega Oren Peli vertelde de website Fearnet.comp wat meer over deze erg aparte (en cheap ass ogende) TV serie.

"We're trying to have both interesting characters and very compelling stories that develop throughout the season, but also we want to give the audience very scary episodes every week. It definitely presents some challenges, but we're very happy with the way things have been turning out so far."

Regarding the show's genesis and how he went about developing a horror series for television, Peli remarked, "The development process with [co-creator] Michael Perry was very long, and Dreamworks was involved during the process. It was just a lot of bouncing ideas back and forth. It was a combination of what makes sense, because when you're dealing with the issue of the supernatural and the paranormal, it's a very fine line between keeping things scary and keeping things campy. So we were all just very careful that things stay very scary. Any time we go to places of wonder, we don't try and go overboard. The other really fun thing was to make sure that everything is grounded in the characters and the relationships that are developed on the boat during the search. They're going through this very intimate, personal ordeal of a family that's being torn apart... The one thing I should also mention is that we brought on board Michael Green, who co-wrote the teleplay and has become the show-runner. He has been instrumental in writing the pilot and overseeing the episodes for the rest of the season. He's another important member of the writing process."

"I never really believed it was going to happen," said the still surprised Peli, "and we just kept going one step at a time, and with every step we said, 'Oh, this is as far as we're gonna go.' Then we had a deal with Dreamworks and a deal with ABC; and then they were ordering the pilot and then they were ordering the season. It was one step after the other."