There has been a string of musicals that have visited the small screen over the past decade, and now "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" will be added to the list.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox network is adapting the musical into a two-hour TV special directed by "High School Musical" director Kenneth Ortega, who will also executive produce and choreograph the project. The film's original producers Gail Berman and Lou Adler will join Ortega as executive producers as well.

It will not be a live airing of the musical like current projects over at NBC or Fox's own "Grease," but rather filmed in advance by Fox 21 Television Studios and Berman's own The Jackal Group. It is tentatively titled "The Rocky Horror Picture Show Event."

The 1975 film will also be turning 40 this year, so the timing was expected to coincide with this anniversary. Ironically, there were also plans in 2002 to reproduce the film and make it coincide with the 30th anniversary, but the project never followed through.

In an article on Deadline, Berman was quoted as saying in 2002, "I've been a fan of 'Rocky Horror' since I was a teenager." The show had since been a passion project for her and she even attempted to set up a remake at MTV with the same production companies in 2008, but it never quite made it.

But as Entertainment Weekly pointed out in an article, the film has quite a few steamy scenes with a lot of sexual content, which includes on screen and innuendoes. One has to wonder if it can make it past the TV censors, but it shouldn't be too hard to work it out. It wouldn't be the first time a show or film had to be edited for broadcast.

They are using the original stage play written in 1973 by Jim Sharman and Richard O'Brien to film the project, so that means no new writers have been credited, at least not yet.