Survivor

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Format	Reality Game show
Run time	60 minutes
Creator	Charlie Parsons
Starring	Jeff Probst
Country	United States
Network	CBS
Original run	May 31, 2000 – Present
No. of episodes	155 (through season 10)

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Premise

This text refers to the American version of the show. Small differences may exist between it and other versions. Also, rule changes instituted for one season are discussed below.

Tribes

The basic premise of the show is that each series starts with sixteen players and on each episode one player is voted off by the other remaining players. Initially, the players are divided into two eight person "tribes" which compete against each other in "challenges" - competitions of endurance, intelligence, teamwork, dexterity, or will power. Each episode has an "immunity challenge" and the tribe that loses this challenge must vote off one member of the tribe at "Tribal Council." In addition, most episodes have a "reward challenge" and the winning tribe will receive a prize such as additional food or equipment. Exceptions: In Survivor: All-Stars, there were 18 players in three tribes at the start of the game. In Immunity Challenges, the top two tribes received immunity; only last place went to Tribal Council. In Survivor: Vanuatu, again 18 players began the game, but in two tribes of nine players each. In Survivor: Palau, 20 players began the game, and were divided into two tribes of nine, with the other two players being eliminated immediately. Survivor: All-Stars is the eighth installment of the popular television reality show Survivor. ... Survivor: Vanuatu Islands of Fire is the ninth installment of the reality hit Survivor. ... Survivor: Palau is the tenth installment of the reality hit Survivor. ...

Later seasons offered twists on pre-merge immunity rules. In the opening moments of Palau, Probst told the 20 contestants (all of whom were rowing in the middle of the ocean) that the first man and woman to reach the shore would be granted immunity. That safety lasted until day 2, when they each picked the first member of their new tribe (Jolanda Jones, the female immunity winner, was voted out on day 3!). On day 7 of Vanuatu, both tribes were told they had to vote out a member. They were then ordered to compete in a reward challenge. The Lopevi tribe won, and their "reward" was an individual competition for immunity -- John Kenney won and was kept safe for that particular vote; he was also sent to the Yasur tribe for a day to watch their activities and award immunity to one player (he chose Ami Cusack). In Palau, on day 12, the Koror and Ulong tribes were forced to vote out one member apiece. Powerhouse Koror won the reward challenge, and the prize was eating a meal in front of Ulong while watching their Tribal Council. A surprise twist revealed only at TC was the opportunity to give one Ulong immunity for that particular vote. Votes were split but a majority went to the Ulong tribe's intended target, Ibrehem Rahman, forcing Ulong to vote out another member. Jolanda Jones (born November 6, 1965) was a contestant in the reality television show Survivor: Palau. ... Ami Cusack (born January 25, 1973) was a contestant on Survivor: Vanuatu, from Lakewood, CO. Cusack is a model/barista who posed for Playboy magazine in the mid-90s. ... Ibrehem Rahman (born March 4, 1977) was the first Muslim contestant on the American version of the CBS reality television show Survivor. ...

At some point in the season the remaining players from the two tribes "merge" into a single tribe (except in Palau, where the victorious Koror tribe merely absorbed the only remaining Ulong member, Stephenie LaGrossa). From this point, challenges are won on an individual basis. Rewards are given to only one player (although there are times when reward challenges have multiple teams competing against each other. The teams are typically divided up randomly). With most of the reward challenges, the individual who wins is often given the option to choose one other player to share the reward with). Still, only one player can win immunity. This immune player cannot be voted off on that episode, although he or she still has the right to vote against other players. In the Marquesas, Amazon, Pearl Islands, All-Stars, Vanuatu, and Palau seasons, the player who won immunity had the right to pass it to a fellow tribemate. Several players attempted to barter for this prize, but only one true transfer has ever occurred. Amazon winner Jenna Morasca gave her immunity to friend Heidi Strobel on day 33. Stephenie LaGrossa (born December 6, 1979) is a contestant in Survivor: Palau who was the last Ulong member standing before she was subsumed into Koror. ... Jenna Morasca (born February 15, 1981) was a reality TV contestant who was the million-dollar grand prize winner of Survivor: The Amazon. ... Survivor: The Amazon was the sixth incarnation of the popular television reality show Survivor. ...

Tribal Council

The voting is done at the end of each episode at Tribal Council. The show's host, Jeff Probst, questions and provokes the players about events that have occurred and their opinions about the other players. The players all then secretly vote, and the player who receives the most votes is out of the competition. Probst takes the players' torch, extinguishes it, and declares "The tribe has spoken." The player then leaves the area and gives his final words, which air during the credits of the episode. Jeff Probst (born November 4, 1961) is an American television personalty, best known for his role, since the year 2000, as the host of each installment of the successful U.S. version of the Survivor reality show franchise. ...

If there is a tie, the following tiebreakers have been used:

• In Seasons 1-3, all players not in the tie voted again. If the tie remained, whoever had received the most votes in prior Tribal Councils was eliminated. If this did not break the tie, a sudden death trivia challenge was used.
• In Survivor: Marquesas, a tie in the Final Four was broken by a random draw among all players, except Vecepia Towery, who had immunity.
• Later seasons such as Thailand and Palau have featured players discussing the possibility of a "purple rock", but at Tribal Council they have usually avoided tiebreaker situations. Several votes since Marquesas have been initially tied but the ties have been resolved in revotes. For example, there was an initial 2-2 tie vote in Palau between Bobby Jon Drinkard and Angie Jakusz. Probst ordered a revote from the three other members of their tribe, and Jakusz was voted out 3-0. In the following episode, Ibrehem Rahman and James Miller tied on a 2-2 vote but a revote led to a 2-0 departure for Miller.
• In recent seasons, in case of a deadlock vote that takes place before the Final Four, the people who are tied gain immunity from elimination, and the rest of the tribe members (except the person who won the immunity challenge) must draw rocks. The one who draws the purple rock is eliminated. However, this rule has never been exercised. If a deadlock vote takes place during the Final Four, no rocks are drawn; instead, ties are decided on the basis of competitions similar to immunity challenges. In Palau, a tie in the Final Four between Ian Rosenberger and Jennifer Lyon resulted in Ian and Jenn participating in a fire-starting challenge; Ian won and Jenn was voted out.

The first 6-9 players eliminated leave the game altogether; in the first season they were allowed to return to the United States, but when some of the early exits were sighted during filming (spoiling the outcome of the first few episodes), Survivor instituted a policy forcing pre-jury players to stay fairly close to the filming area (the country itself, or nearby countries). One exception was Tanya Vance, who was voted out on day 6 of Thailand and allowed to return home several weeks later upon learning her father had been killed. Those who finish in ninth through third place remain to form the "jury" which does not directly participate in the show but observes the Tribal Councils. In the final episode of each season, the final four (3 in Survivor: The Australian Outback) players typically go through a number of activities during their final days. In the first 4 seasons they competed in an immunity challenge, which has generally been "Fallen Comrades," where players compete (in front of the jury) to answer questions about the jury correctly. Later seasons have featured other physical or mental tasks in place of "Fallen Comrades". Immediately following this challenge, fourth place is voted out. The players return to camp and go through a "memorial" for the players previously eliminated from the game on the way to their final challenge, generally one of endurance. Whoever wins this challenge has the sole vote to determine third place. The final two return, and on the last day go through a symbolic destruction of camp (this is not official; it is a tradition begun in Pulau Tiga when Richard Hatch and Kelly Wiglesworth burned everything but their personal gear on Day 39 to symbolize leaving the game behind). Then they go to their final Tribal Council, where the seven members of the jury are given the right to ask them questions. At the very end of the show, each of the seven jurors votes for the winner. Probst takes the container with the votes, and it is secured until the live finale of the show, when the votes are revealed and the million-dollar winner announced. Survivor: Marquesas was the fourth installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. ... Vecepia Towery (born December 9, 1965) won $1,000,000 on the Marquesas edition of Survivor, the first black contestant to win a series of the game. ... Bobby Jon Drinkard (born May 10, 1977) was a contestant in Survivor: Palau and a former member of the ill-fated Ulong Tribe. ... Angie Jakusz was born March 27, 1980 in Waukesha, Wisconsin but later relocated to New Orleans. ... Ibrehem Rahman (born March 4, 1977) was the first Muslim contestant on the American version of the CBS reality television show Survivor. ... James Miller may refer to any number of individuals: James Miller (general), a the 19th century United States general and politician James Miller (quartermaster), a United States Civil War Medal of Honor winner James Miller (filmmaker), a British cameraman shot by the Israel Defence Force whilst making a documentary in... Ian Rosenberger (born August 24, 1981), from Ambridge, Pennsylvania, was (briefly) a dolphin trainer before giving up his job to become a contestant on the CBS reality television series Survivor: Palau. ... Jennifer Jenn Lyon (born on February 27, 1972) is a nanny currently attending California State University, Northridge, who was a contestant on the CBS reality television series Survivor: Palau. ... Survivor: The Australian Outback was the second installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. ... Survivor: Pulau Tiga was the first installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. ... Richard Hatch is a name used by the following people: Richard Hatch (actor), played Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica. ... Kelly Wiglesworth (born June 24, 1977) was the runner-up on the original American version of the CBS reality series Survivor. ...

Prizes

Not only the winner receives a prize in Survivor. Here are the approximate monetary prizes for all placings in a normal 16-player game (on the All-Star series, all prizes except the million dollar top prize were doubled):

The Million-dollar winner also typically wins an automobile. All players also receive an additional $10,000 for their appearance on the post-series "reunion" show. A small variety of cars, the most popular kind of automobile. ...

While the show is based on the theme of wilderness survival, the real basis of the show is interpersonal relationships. The survival aspects are difficult enough to discomfort the players, but contestants are rarely truly endangered (only one has ever had to leave in mid-series due to injuries). The real survival skills required are the ability to make deals and form alliances with other players to keep from being voted off. Because of the steadily diminishing number of players and the fact that the players being voted off will in turn choose the ultimate winner, considerable political skills are required.

Concept history

The creation of the Survivor concept, although credited to Charlie Parsons, was actually conceived by Bob Geldof's Planet 24 television company. It initially failed to attract the attention of any of the major broadcasters in Britain or the United States and was eventually sold to the Swedish television company Strix Television as Expedition Robinson (alluding to Robinson Crusoe). The show was a major hit in Sweden. Robert Frederick Xenon Bob Geldof, KBE (born October 5, 1951 in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin) is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and political activist. ... Expedition Robinson is a popular 1997 Swedish reality television program shown on Sveriges Television. ... Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. ...

The initial series was a huge ratings success in the US in 2000 and, along with ABC's prime-time game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, sparked a reality-television revolution. Suddenly networks pushed sitcoms and conventional drama series to the back burner and rushed their own reality shows into development. Even the Fox Network, which had vowed never to air a reality show again just months earlier following media outrage surrounding its "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" program, broke its promise and launched several competitors of its own. Survivor's second season, in the winter/spring of 2001, drew even larger audiences. Subsequent US versions have attracted smaller but still substantial audiences. There have also been British and Australian versions of the show in 2002. Both were ratings flops, indeed in Britain, its failure was a national joke (though ratings for the UK series were considerably lower than ITV had hoped for, it still regularly attracted six to eight million viewers, a decent rather than huge audience, but enough for ITV to commission a second series which appeared a year later). A Japanese version was also produced for four installments which achieved some success. [1] Broadcast rights for the American version have been sold to various broadcasters and is viewed in many countries around the world. This article is about the year 2000. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... Logo from the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a television game show which offers very large cash prizes for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which generally is unscripted, documenting actual events over fiction, and featuring ordinary people over professional actors. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company is a television network in the United States. ... This is a list of television-related events in 2002. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ...

Seasons of the American version of the series

The U.S. version is produced by Mark Burnett and hosted by Jeff Probst. When the program is broadcast, it airs weekly on CBS. As of early 2005 ten seasons have been aired, including a special competition with past contestants. DVD's of the first season, second season, and All-Stars season have been released. DVD editions of other seasons are planned. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... Mark Burnett (born July 17, 1960) is a British-born American television producer, best known for the reality television series Survivor and the Eco Challenge adventure race, as well as for The Apprentice, The Restaurant, and The Casino. ... Jeff Probst (born November 4, 1961) is an American television personalty, best known for his role, since the year 2000, as the host of each installment of the successful U.S. version of the Survivor reality show franchise. ... CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) is a major radio and television network in the United States. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...

• Survivor: Pulau Tiga (also called Survivor: Borneo or simply Survivor) was set on the remote island of Pulau Tiga in the South China Sea. Richard Hatch was its winner in a 4-3 vote over Kelly Wiglesworth.
• Survivor: The Australian Outback was set in Australia in the Outback (though the location was by Australian standards not particularly remote, nor was it arid). Tina Wesson won 4-3 over Colby Donaldson. During this series, Michael Skupin suffered burns and became the first (and, as of 2005, only) contestant evacuated due to injuries.
• Survivor: Africa was set in a Kenyan desert. Ethan Zohn won, defeating Kim Johnson by a vote of 5-2.
• Survivor: Marquesas was set on the island of Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. Vecepia Towery won by a vote of 4-3 over Neleh Dennis.
• Survivor: Thailand was set in Thailand. Brian Heidik beat Clay Jordan by a vote of 4-3.
• Survivor: The Amazon was set in the jungles of the Amazon River region of Brazil. Jenna Morasca won, with the largest margin of victory yet in the American series, 6-1, over Matthew Von Ertfelda.
• Survivor: Pearl Islands was set in the Pearl Islands off the coast of Panama. Sandra Diaz-Twine defeated Lillian Morris by a vote of 6-1.
• Survivor: All-Stars was also set in the Pearl Islands, and featured eighteen contestants from past Survivor seasons. Amber Brkich won by a vote of 4-3 over Rob Mariano. During the finale, Rob asked Amber to marry him, and she said yes. A second million-dollar prize was also awarded to Rupert Boneham for being voted (at the CBS website and by mobile phone) as the viewers' favorite contestant on Survivor: America's Tribal Council. Several rule changes were used in this season regarding the nature of tribes, and they are listed in the separate article.
• Survivor: Vanuatu: Islands of Fire was set on islands in the archipelago nation of Vanuatu, located in the South Pacific Ocean. Chris Daugherty was the only male contestant of the final seven, but outlasted Twila Tanner by a vote of 5-2.
• Survivor: Palau was set on islands of Palau, located in the Philippine Sea. The season started with 20 contestants, but on Day 2, the number was reduced to 18 in a tribal selection process. The season concluded with NYC firefighter Tom Westman prevailing over Katie Gallagher by a vote of 6-1.
• Survivor: Guatemala will be the eleventh season of Survivor, and it will be set inside of the ruins of the Maya civilization in the Yaxha National Park. 16 Survivors (possibly 18 if rumors are to be believed) will be stranded inside of the ruins of the Maya civilization. The season is set to premiere on September 15, 2005.

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Rules

(rules may vary in foreign versions of the series)

• Conspiring to split winnings will result in immediate expulsion from the game.
• Except for the occasional challenges which involve wrestling or limited combat, any physical violence between players will result in immediate expulsion from the game.
• At Tribal Council, players are not permitted to vote for themselves, nor can they spoil their ballots or decline to cast a vote. Players must also show who they voted for to the camera inside the voting booth.
• Contestants may not skip any tribal councils, nor can they refuse to participate in an immunity or reward challenge (unless one tribe has more players then the other. In that case, the tribe with more members can select tribe members to sit out of a challenge.)
• When one tribe has more players than the other tribe, the excess members must sit out challenges. This rule was relaxed only in the Survivor: The Australian Outback season because Jeff Probst felt neither team would be helped or hindered by the numeric disparity. Beginning with Survivor: Africa, the rules specifically stated that any player who sits out a reward challenge cannot sit out the following immunity challenge. In Survivor: Palau episodes 7-8 the Koror tribe had 8 players while Ulong only had 3 (and then 2), which forced the show to allow various Koror players to sit out back-to-back challenges. The only qualification then was that the same 2-3 players could not participate in each concurrent challenge. Katie Gallagher and Janu Tornell, both of the Palau season, tie for the most sit-outs of any players (they each sat out 7 challenges over 8 episodes).
• Tribe members may not raid or visit the campsite of another tribe unless they are doing so as part of an immunity challenge, reward challenge or tribal merger activity with the other tribe. They also cannot visit the TV crew compound.
• Depending on which country the show takes place in, contestants may be barred from killing certain forms of wildlife and plantlife.

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Controversies and Legal Action

Turmoil between players is commonplace for any reality series, but Survivor has had a few instances which went beyond mere intertribal squabbles:

• In February 2001, Borneo player Stacey Stillman filed a lawsuit claiming producers interfered in the process of the game by persuading two members of her team (Sean Keniff and Dirk Been) to vote her off instead of Rudy Boesch. Been supported her allegations. Mark Burnett countersued Stillman for $5 million dollars. The case was eventually settled out of court.
• At the trivia immunity challenge for Africa's final four players, host Jeff Probst asked which female player in their season had no piercings. Kim Johnson answered Kelly Goldsmith, got the point, and went on to win the challenge, which pushed her to third and ultimately (after another immunity win) second place. Tom Buchanan was eliminated. Months after filming, the cast and producers gathered for the reunion show. The cast and producers watched the finale broadcast, and when Probst was shown asking who had no piercings, Lindsey Richter shouted to the TV that she had none. Lex van der Berghe's answer had been Lindsey, yet the show had not awarded him a point, thus drastically changing the outcome of the game (van der Berghe was eliminated in third place). Realizing their mistake, CBS paid van der Berghe and Buchanan a settlement.
• In the fifth episode of the All-Star season, a naked Richard Hatch deliberately ground his crotch against Sue Hawk during an immunity challenge. Hatch was voted out that day for other reasons; a humiliated and depressed Hawk quit the game a few days later (episode six). Hawk considered filing a lawsuit against the parties involved, but appeared with Hatch on The Early Show the morning after the sixth episode aired, stating she opted out of legal action because CBS had helped her "deal with the situation".

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Survivor Trivia and Interesting Facts

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• In all, there have been 150 different American Survivor players over the 10 seasons, 18 of whom got to play twice.
• Of the 150 different players from the 10 seasons, only five have never been eliminated from the game: Vecepia Towery, Brian Heidik, Sandra Diaz-Twine, Chris Daugherty, and Tom Westman. Four other winners lost in their other season (Richard Hatch, Tina Wesson, and Ethan Zohn in Survivor: All Stars and Amber Brkich in Survivor: Australia). Jenna Morasca never had her torch snuffed out because she won Survivor: Amazon and quit Survivor: All Stars.
• The 10 players voted off to start the game each season: Sonja Christopher (the very first Survivor ever to be voted out), Debb Eaton, Diane Ogden, Peter Harkey, John Raymond, Ryan Aiken, Nicole Delma, Tina Wesson (who won Survivor: The Australian Outback but was the first out on Survivor: All-Stars), Brook Geraghty, and Jolanda Jones. However, Jolanda was not the first to be eliminated in Survivor: Palau, because Jonathan Libby and Wanda Shirk were eliminated by default in the tribal selection process that started the season
• Both winners in the British series won the grand prize by a 7-0 vote. No grand prize winner on any of the other series have won by a 7-0 vote. On the American version, three winners won by a 6-1 vote (Jenna Morasca, Sandra Diaz-Twine and Tom Westman), two winners won by a 5-2 vote (Ethan Zohn and Chris Daugherty), and five winners won by a 4-3 vote (Richard Hatch, Tina Wesson, Vecepia Towery, Brian Heidik, and Amber Brkich).

Vecepia Towery (born December 9, 1965) won $1,000,000 on the Marquesas edition of Survivor, the first black contestant to win a series of the game. ... Brian Heidik (born March 9, 1968) won $1,000,000 on the Thailand edition of Survivor. ... Sandra Diaz-Twine (born July 30, 1974) was the winner (aka the sole survivor) of Survivor: Pearl Islands. ... Chris Daugherty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Tom Westman (born January 4, 1964) is the $1,000,000 winner of the reality show Survivor: Palau. ... Richard Hatch is a name used by the following people: Richard Hatch (actor), played Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica. ... Tina Wesson (top right) featured on the DVD cover of Survivor The Australian Outback - The Complete Season. ... Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on the Africa edition of Survivor. ... Survivor: All-Stars is the eighth installment of the popular television reality show Survivor. ... Amber Brkich (born August 11, 1978) is the winner of Survivor: All-Stars, and was a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback. ... Survivor: The Australian Outback was the second installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. ... Jenna Morasca (born February 15, 1981) was a reality TV contestant who was the million-dollar grand prize winner of Survivor: The Amazon. ... Survivor: The Amazon was the sixth incarnation of the popular television reality show Survivor. ... Survivor: All-Stars is the eighth installment of the popular television reality show Survivor. ... Sonja Christopher (born January 28, 1937) is a contestant of Survivor: Pulau Tiga. ... Debb Eaton was a player on the reality televison series Survivor: The Australian Outback. ... Tina Wesson (top right) featured on the DVD cover of Survivor The Australian Outback - The Complete Season. ... Survivor: The Australian Outback was the second installment of the popular United States reality show Survivor. ... Survivor: All-Stars is the eighth installment of the popular television reality show Survivor. ... Jolanda Jones (born November 6, 1965) was a contestant in the reality television show Survivor: Palau. ... Survivor: Palau is the tenth installment of the reality hit Survivor. ... Jonathan Libby (born September 5, 1981) was a player on the televison reality show Survivor who, along with Wanda Shirk, was forced to leave the game in Survivor: Palau on the second day because of a special elimination twist. ... Wanda Shirk (born August 24, 1949) was a player on the televison reality show Survivor who, along with Jonathan Libby, was forced to leave the game in Survivor: Palau on the second day because of a special elimination twist. ... Jenna Morasca (born February 15, 1981) was a reality TV contestant who was the million-dollar grand prize winner of Survivor: The Amazon. ... Sandra Diaz-Twine (born July 30, 1974) was the winner (aka the sole survivor) of Survivor: Pearl Islands. ... Tom Westman (born January 4, 1964) is the $1,000,000 winner of the reality show Survivor: Palau. ... Ethan Zohn (born on November 12, 1973 in Lexington, Massachusetts) won $1,000,000 on the Africa edition of Survivor. ... Chris Daugherty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Richard Hatch is a name used by the following people: Richard Hatch (actor), played Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica. ... Tina Wesson (top right) featured on the DVD cover of Survivor The Australian Outback - The Complete Season. ... Vecepia Towery (born December 9, 1965) won $1,000,000 on the Marquesas edition of Survivor, the first black contestant to win a series of the game. ... Brian Heidik (born March 9, 1968) won $1,000,000 on the Thailand edition of Survivor. ... Amber Brkich (born August 11, 1978) is the winner of Survivor: All-Stars, and was a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback. ...

UK Survivor

Survivor (UK) hit screens in the United Kingdom in 2001. The format was similar to that of the US version, and was screened on ITV. Sixteen contestants were marooned on the island of Pulau Tiga and were split into two tribes. They completed in challenges and schemed against each other. The first series was won by Charlotte Hobrough. Despite hype surrounding the show, it was a ratings flop, and was heavily criticised by the press. Survivor was a television series. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... Pulau Tiga is an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of North Borneo. ...

Despite the disappointing performance of the first series, ITV decided to commission a second one, with some changes. Presenters Mark Austin and John Leslie were axed, and replaced by Channel 4 cricket presenter Mark Nicholas. There were twelve contestants instead of sixteen, the show was scheduled in a later time slot, and was set in Panama. The series was won by Jonny Gibb. Ratings were still disappointing, and so ITV decided to axe the show completely. Independent Television (ITV) is the name given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up to provide competition to the BBC. In England and Wales the channel was recently rebranded ITV1 by ITV plc who own the regional broadcasting licences for the regions. ... John Leslie (born John Leslie Stott in Edinburgh on February 22, 1965) is a British television presenter, best known as a presenter of Blue Peter. ... Channel 4 is a public service television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Mark Charles Jefford Nicholas (born 29 September 1957 in Westminster, London) was an English cricketer who played for Hampshire from 1978 to 1995, captaining them from 1986 to his retirement. ...

There was a similarly titled series, Survivors, a 1970s series by Terry Nation, set in the then-present day, when most of the world's population were suddenly wiped out by a virulent plague. It followed the fortunes of a few of the "lucky" people who were immune. Survivors was a British television programme created by Terry Nation and produced by the BBC from 1975 to 1977. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... Terry Nation (born August 8, 1930, Cardiff, Wales, UK; died March 9, 1997, Los Angeles, California, United States) was a British television screenwriter and is probably best known for creating the Daleks for the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Survivor (Expedition Robinson) Games Worldwide

SPOILER WARNING: winners are named!

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Game count above with a known/named winner is 65 "Survivor" games so far worldwide. Gender count is 29 female winners and 37 male winners, which is 66 winners from 65 games. The French S3 game had 2 female winners after tie vote.

Strix Expedition Robinson (Survivor) games:

All of the European nations that hire Strix to produce or co-produce their Survivor TV shows all travel together to the same basic location each year and pool their resources so less has to be duplicated. Each nation of course brings its own separate team of contestants. Filming is done in the Summer and the game are shown in the Fall of that same year. Here is the Strix chart and the nations that joined, and in what year. Genus Strix Linnaeus, 1758 Strix is a genus of owls in the typical owl family Strigidae. ...

External links

• UK Gameshows Page: Survivor
• R2TV.com
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