"Survivor" (2000) TV series 2000-????

Creator:

Charlie Parsons

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20

Release Date:

31 May 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Adventure | Reality-TV | Game-Show

Tagline:

39 days... 16 people... ONE... Survivor!

Plot:

A competition/reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clothes on their back. The contestants start off divided into two teams that compete against each other, with the losing team forced to vote a member off; when the numbers are reduced to 10 contestants, the teams merge and it's everyone for him- or herself. The lone survivor of this process takes home a million dollars.

Plot Keywords:

Team | Island | Beach | Africa | Voting

Awards:

Won 4 Primetime Emmys. Another 19 wins & 53 nominations

Cast

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Jeff Probst

...

Himself - Host (294 episodes, 2000-2010)

Also Known As:

Survivor: Africa (USA) (third season title)
Survivor: All-Stars (USA) (eighth season title)
Survivor: Borneo (USA) (first season title)
Survivor: China (USA) (fifteenth season title)
Survivor: Cook Islands (USA) (thirteenth season title)
Survivor: Fiji (USA) (fourteenth season title)
Survivor: Gabon - Earth's Last Eden (USA) (seventeenth season title)
Survivor: Guatemala - The Maya Empire (USA) (eleventh season title)
Survivor: Marquesas (USA) (fourth season title)
Survivor: Micronesia - Fans vs. Favorites (USA) (sixteenth season title)
Survivor: Palau (USA) (tenth season title)
Survivor: Panama - Exile Island (USA) (twelfth season title)
Survivor: Pearl Islands (USA) (seventh season title)
Survivor: Samoa (USA) (nineteenth season title)
Survivor: Thailand (USA) (fifth season title)
Survivor: The Amazon (USA) (sixth season title)
Survivor: The Australian Outback (USA) (second season title)
Survivor: Tocantins - The Brazilian Highlands (USA) (eighteenth season title)
Survivor: Vanuatu - Islands of Fire (USA) (ninth season title)

Runtime:

60 min | 60 min (13 episodes) | 60 min (16 episodes) | 60 min (including commercials) | Norway:50 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:PG | Australia:G (some episodes) | Malaysia:U | Norway:A (TV rating)

Company:

Mark Burnett Productions

Trivia:

There was some controversy surrounding an immunity challenge in the finale of "Survivor: Africa." In a "Fallen Comrades" challenge, in which the contestants were quizzed on trivia regarding other players in the game who had been voted out, the final question asked the contestants to name a female contestant that did not have any piercings. The official answer was Kelly Goldsmith, which eventual runner-up Kim Johnson answered and received the win for. Unbeknownst to the producers, however, contestant Lindsey Richter fit the question as well, which eventual third-place finisher Lex van den Berghe answered and was incorrectly marked wrong for. After this producer mistake had been found out, both van den Berghe and fourth place finisher Tom Buchanan were awarded with the $100,000 runner-up fee instead of the traditional third and fourth place earnings.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Office: Business Ethics (#5.2)" (2008)

Survivor IS BACK!!!

__Contains Minor Spoiler about the First Episode__ Only 2 episodes into Survivor:Palau and its already more interesting than Vanuatu, In my opinion. Survivor: Vanuatu was disappointing mostly because of the bland cast, and Survivor:All Stars was both over-hyped and predictable, but I'm happy to report that it seems that Survivor: Palau will rank up there with the best versions of the show. One criticism I have with the show is how they got rid of two people off the bat- I just think it was really unnecessary. Thus far, the cast seems great and I especially like the Koror or "the bad-news bears tribe". The people I'm rooting for: Tom, Coby, Ian and Stephenie. That would be a FANTASTIC final four, wouldn't it?