"Survivor" (2000) TV series 2000-????

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Creator:

Charlie Parsons

Seasons:

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

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 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 19 wins & 51 nominations

Cast

Jeff Probst

...

Himself - Host / ... (277 episodes, 2000-2009)

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:

The final reward on "Survivor: Borneo" was originally going to be a bottle of beer. However, since the rewards in the past were so much bigger (consisting of things like a barbecue feast and a night on a luxury yacht), the Survivors thought that the reward was not good enough and considered a mutiny. Since the show's sponsors were coming to the island, the producers were forced to change the reward so that a mutiny would not occur. The reward was changed to a night out with host 'Jeff Probst (I)' at a local bar where the winner got to watch the first 15 minutes of the first episode of Survivor. Kelly Wiglesworth won the reward. What she didn't know was that the "bar" was actually the production crew's mess hall in disguise and that the people in the bar were all actors. (At one point Wiglesworth noticed a neon sign that read "Survivor Bar" and asked Probst what a sign like that was doing in a Malaysian bar. Probst told her that since the crew spent so much time and money there they put a sign up just for them. She believed it.)

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Getaway: (#13.10)" (2004)

The fourth entry into the highly popular "SURVIVOR" series is shaping up to be the best one yet!

After the disappointing and lackluster "SURVIVOR: AFRICA" edition, many viewers would feel that the SURVIVOR franchise would either need to grease its wheels and reinvent itself or retire with dignity. Thankfully, "SURVIVOR: MARQUESAS" opted for the first choice and it immediately shows in the first episode.

Returning to the 'island / beach' theme, 16 cast-aways are dispatched from a boat off the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific and into two tribes of 8, Maraamu and Rotu, they are to spend 39 days surviving nature and each other in hopes of winning the $1 million dollar prize.

Some new rules that have been implemented to rejuvenate the series is that each tribe is not given any food or fire to start out with. It is also a welcome relief to see the tropical surroundings that are very familiar to those featured in the first "SURVIVOR".

Judging from the first episode, some favorites have emerged. John, Rob, Robert and Vecepia all show promise. The one person standing out currently that could spell future trouble is Sarah. She could be this edition's resident 'Jerri'. As like the other editions, only time will tell who will become the ones we want to root for and the ones we just love to hate. Maraamu were the first to create fire, but Rotu won the immunity challenge. What a great premiere episode! What can I say, I'm hooked already!

1 down, 15 to go - BRING IT ON!